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In an era where the average American spends nearly 2,555 hours online every year, connectivity to our digital landscape is crucial. Yet the infrastructure that supports it remains an often-overlooked component of our digital world. Enter dark fiber – a term that sounds mysterious, but has incredible potential to shape the future of network connectivity. […]

We still haven’t quite figured out how to accurately and completely represent fiber and broadband coverage in the United States. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been trying to do so since 2000

New API Enhancement to Provide Greater Geospatial Analysis Recently, the FiberLocator team upgraded its API to allow for more sophisticated analysis and control at the critical last mile of connectivity. With this latest addition to the application programming interface (API), members now can retrieve GeoJSON objects. Putting it in more technical terms, this add on […]

FiberLocator continues to grow as a leader in the telecommunications industry! Now the tool just got better with the addition of 477 broadband data! To make sure you are familiar with the upgrade, our team has compiled a few notes to get you up to speed. Please note, for your convenience, we are also conducting […]

Over the last few months, FiberLocator put a great deal of behind-the-scenes work in stabilizing the platform. In that timeframe, it is a thrill to announce that our original developer has rejoined us! This will allow our dedicated team to place us in a position with more upgrades and enhancements going forward. After carefully listening […]

ZenFi Networks, a regional fiber optic, network edge colocation and wireless siting service provider operating in the New York and New Jersey metro region, has been a carrier on FiberLocator since 2016. The company recently expanded its network infrastructure and fiber footprint to reach further urban areas throughout northern NJ through its recent expansion driven by a […]

On November 25, 2019, the FCC released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in Docket 19-308, in which it decided the time had come to forebear from enforcing the remaining section 251(c)(3) unbundled network element (UNE) requirements.  As we have previously discussed, initial opposition to the proposal culminated in an industry agreement between CLECs and […]