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The Invisible Proceeding – Removing Barriers to Broadband Deployment

The following is a sample of CCMI’s TelcoExchange Blog by FCC insider Andy Regitsky. We’ll occasionally share updates as they pertain to FiberLocator. Tuesday, your faithful scribe made the ultimate sacrifice – sitting through hours of C-Span’s coverage of the…

CCMI Acquires FiberLocator

Gaithersburg, MD (July 11, 2017) — CCMI, a business unit of Simplify Compliance, announces the acquisition of NEF’s FiberLocator, an online fiber mapping database. This is the second acquisition by Simplify Compliance since Leeds Equity Partners, LLC invested to form…

Find the Top 25 Fiber Providers in FiberLocator

Last week, FierceTelecom published their list of the Top 25 Business Fiber Providers in the U.S.  Many of the names are familiar, big name providers, but there are also some that are regional or smaller sized carriers that you may…

FiberLocator at ITW

FiberLocator is spending the next few days at the International Telecoms Week conference in Chicago, and we are very excited to get to know some new international carriers. Hundreds of companies are attending this 3 day conference, which is sponsored by…

Batch Upload or Proprietary Data?

Back in February, FiberLocator unveiled some new features that our users had been looking forward to. One of them was an expansion to the proprietary data feature, which now allows users to upload their own line or point data to…

Proprietary Layers Update in FiberLocator!

Proprietary Layers An exciting and anticipated addition to FiberLocator is a section of the “My Workspace” panel called Proprietary Layers. Customers will be able to upload their own files into FiberLocator, so they can view personal map data alongside FiberLocator’s existing data. Getting…

A Closer Look at Internet Exchanges

Last month, we debuted the Internet Exchange layer in the FiberLocator tool. Because this is a new feature, we decided to look a little closer at why adding internet exchanges as a layer is important to our customers, and relevant…

FiberLocator Celebrates First Trans-Atlantic Cable with Record Updates

This past July marked the 150th anniversary of the first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. To think it used to take weeks for a message to get from Europe to North America shows the great strides telecom has made over the course of…

What Considerations to Make for the 5G Shift

5G networks are on the horizon, but enterprises may need to wait a little longer to take advantage of them. According to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler, three limiting factors need to be addressed before all companies can leverage…

Cell Data is Now Available in FiberLocator!

We now have cell data available as an optional premium layer in FiberLocator! * With the addition of cell data this month, no one else can provide the comprehensive carrier map research that FiberLocator can.  The combined data sets of…

  I wish I had known about this tool 5 years ago. In a few minutes, I am able to see data which would have taken hours to compile. It is one of those tools that makes me wonder how…

John A. Schwarze, Managing Partner
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