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Fiber Meets AI: What ISPs Need to Know
Ella Pratti: Aug 23, 2025
Let’s be honest—400G isn’t coming. It’s here.
Ella Pratti: Aug 23, 2025
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Understanding FCC Reporting Requirements in 2025
Taneil Currie: Aug 21, 2025
FCC reporting can be complex. With multiple filings due throughout the year and updates to key programs, broadband providers need a clear, reliable...
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Smarter Customer Support with Sonar’s Ticketing Tools
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Sonar: Aug 20, 2025
For ISPs, customer support is all about balance: keeping teams efficient while making sure customers feel heard. That’s where Sonar’s ticketing...
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What Broadband Leadership Really Looks Like in 2025
Ray Bixler CEO of Sonar Software: Aug 19, 2025
There’s a phrase I keep coming back to these days: the time to build is now. Not just in the sense of digging trenches or lighting up new fiber...
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How AI Can Reduce Support Costs for Broadband Providers
Taneil Currie: Aug 19, 2025
When service drops or billing questions pop up, support is on the front line. They’re the ones fielding calls, easing frustrations, and keeping...
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Delivering the Best Broadband at the Best Cost for BEAD Funding
Georgette Lopez-Aguado: Aug 14, 2025
The NTIA’s 2025 restructuring of the BEAD program has reshaped nearly every facet of how broadband funding will be awarded—and perhaps none more...
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Automating Field Service & Dispatch with Sonar: Smarter, Faster On-Site Operations
Sonar: Aug 13, 2025
For ISP’s, delivering reliable field service is a core part of the customer experience. Missed appointments, long travel times, and disconnected...
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Stop the Leak: How ISPs Lose Revenue—and How Sonar's OSS/BSS Solution Helps Plug Every Hole
Madeline Hanna: Aug 7, 2025
ISP Revenue Leakage: The Silent Profit Killer A 2 a.m. storm knocks out a fiber trunk. A retail chain’s backup connection kicks in automatically....
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What We Shipped in Q2 (and What We’re Doing Next)
Rick Seemann: Aug 7, 2025
Q2 Highlights I know you’re busy, so I’ll keep this simple: here’s what's improved, what’s brand new, and what you can expect to see next from Sonar.
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Automating Billing, Payments & Reporting with Sonar: Smarter Workflows for ISPs
Sonar: Aug 6, 2025
Managing finances is one of the most resource-intensive aspects of running an internet service provider. Generating invoices, tracking payments and...
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The Networks Powering AI Aren’t Just in Big Cities
Taneil Currie: Jul 28, 2025
Let’s talk about something that doesn’t get enough attention when we talk about AI: bandwidth. AI gets a lot of headlines, but most of the spotlight...
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Sonar Q2 Update: Powering Productivity and Performance
Rick Seemann: Jul 23, 2025
At Sonar, we’re always working to make our platform faster, smarter, and more powerful for your team. In Q2, we delivered several game-changing...
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The Death of the Middle-Class Affordability Plan: What ISPs Need to Know
Georgette Lopez-Aguado: Jul 21, 2025
One of the most unexpected outcomes of the NTIA’s BEAD program restructuring is the elimination of the Middle-Class Affordability Plan (MCAP)...
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FCC Broadband Labels: What's New Between 2024 and October 10 2025
Sonar: Jul 18, 2025
The FCC’s “Broadband Consumer Label” started appearing on ISP websites and in-store displays this year. By design, it works like a nutrition...
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Smarter, Faster, Stronger: How ISPs Are Using Generative AI to Reinvent Their Operations
Steve Shillingsburg: Jul 14, 2025
Generative AI isn’t just powering chatbots anymore. It’s driving a major shift across the internet service industry. Internet Service Providers are...
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Will Fixed Wireless and LEO Now Have a Competitive Edge Under BEAD?
Georgette Lopez-Aguado: Jul 9, 2025
For years, fixed wireless and satellite broadband providers have faced an uphill battle in federal funding programs—frequently sidelined by...
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Broadband Communities 2025: Pulse Check
Georgette Lopez-Aguado: Jul 8, 2025
If there’s one word that defined our experience at this year’s Broadband Communities Summit, it was connection. Not just the kind that runs through...
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The Ripple Effect of Rural Broadband: More Than a Connection
Ella Pratti: Jul 3, 2025
Rural broadband isn’t just a technology project. It’s a lifeline. It’s an investment in people, place, and potential. When fiber reaches a rural...
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Why My Reports Start in Spreadsheets (and Why That’s Okay)
Madeline Hanna: Jun 30, 2025
How to think like a business owner—not a BI wizard—and still get the data you need I’ll let you in on a secret: some of the best ISP reporting ideas...
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How NTIA’s BEAD Policy Overhaul Is Reshaping State Broadband Strategies
Georgette Lopez-Aguado: Jun 30, 2025
In a move that dramatically shifts the broadband funding landscape, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has...