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Uprise owner Kromer pleads guilty in $7.9 million broadband theft scheme as contractors pursue payment

Uprise owner Stephen A. Kromer pleaded guilty to federal money laundering after admitting he diverted more than $7.8 million in state-supplied broadband matching funds. He agreed to $7.89 million in ...
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Kenwood Telecom stocks the mounts and site products crews need and engineers the ones no catalog carries

Kenwood Telecom’s Acworth, GA, headquarters, and above it is an image of one of the company’s engineered structures: an elevated galvanized-steel equipment platform with a protective canopy, ...
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RiverStreet’s Chapter 11 filing shows why its $480M rural fiber expansion unraveled — and contractors and suppliers are owed tens of millions

RiverStreet’s plan to bring fiber to about 182,000 rural locations ran into a $153 million funding gap, leaving contractors and suppliers among the creditors in its Chapter 11 case. The largest ...
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Fertilizer rig snags a guy wire and drops a 481-foot American Tower structure near Danville, Illinois

A 481-foot American Tower guyed tower lies across an equipment shelter and compound on Kickapoo Park Road northwest of Danville, Ill., after collapsing Monday, Oct. 26. Inset: the fertilizer truck ...
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Bluff or bonanza? SpaceX’s reported 80,000-site push tests an industry still counting DISH’s costs

Tower owners see a potential new tenant. Contractors want work at sustainable rates. Manufacturers are fielding inquiries. The industry experts pictured provide their perspectives as the ...