As our Advent Calendar comes to an end, we want to take a moment to say thank you.
Throughout December, we’ve shared insights, ideas, and stories from across COS Systems, and today, on Christmas Day, we wanted to do something a little more personal.
Clearwater County in west-central Alberta is building a county-owned Open Access fiber network to deliver reliable, high-speed connectivity across a large rural area—while enabling competition and protecting long-term public value.
Facing unreliable broadband and limited provider choice, the County adopted a multi-year Open Access strategy that separates infrastructure ownership from service delivery. The result: shared fiber infrastructure, multiple ISPs, and 24/7 operations without scaling County staff.
May 17, 2026 — Kissimmee, Florida
12:00 PM–5:00 PM
In partnership with Fiber Connect 2026
Attendance: Free, but space is limited
At Network X 2025 in Paris, the Broadband Forum Innovation Demos served as a powerful stage to demonstrate what open access looks like when it actually works. For us, this was a great opportunity to demonstrate our platform and automation in action—not as theory, but as a live, end-to-end customer journey.
The demo showcased Fixed Access Network Sharing, where multiple virtual network operators share the same physical infrastructure while remaining fully isolated at the service level. Each operator ran on its own virtual OLT instance, while the infrastructure provider retained full visibility and control across the network. All of it orchestrated automatically, using open standards.
Watch the video⬇️
We're heading back to Metro Connect, and I couldn’t be more excited!
Last year’s conversations in Fort Lauderdale were electric. This February, we're coming in with our sleeves rolled up to talk about what really moves the needle for operators and investors — where fiber, fixed wireless, and smart wholesale models intersect and actually deliver returns.
This year, we focused on the unglamorous details that remove friction at scale. These improvements don’t shout, but they make operators launch faster, reconcile cleaner, and serve customers better.
Sell More With a Better Sales Platform
Door-to-door and phone sales are still some of the most effective ways to drive fiber take-rates — but only when they’re done with the right tools.
Too often, fiber sales teams are forced to work with:
The Smarter Fiber M&A Model Investors Are Turning To
As fiber broadband consolidation accelerates across North America, investors and Tier-1 operators face a paradox: while acquisitions promise scale and operational leverage, traditional integration playbooks often delay returns and unintentionally erode the very revenue they set out to grow. The prevailing strategy — merge brands, unify systems, consolidate staff — may look efficient on paper, but in practice it frequently triggers churn, stalls time-to-market, and inflates integration costs.
The ISP Consolidation Success whitepaper highlights a more effective approach: optimize operations while preserving the revenue-generating engines — the local brands, customer relationships, and market trust that smaller ISPs have spent decades building.
Download the whitepaper on ISP Consolidation
Welcome back to another day of the COS Systems Christmas Calendar! Today, we’re revealing one of our most requested resources of the year: a COS FSM One-Pager — your concise guide to modernizing, scaling, and simplifying field service operations for fiber networks.
Whether you’re managing installs, service activations, maintenance, troubleshooting, or coordinating subcontractors, COS FSM gives you the automation and intelligence needed to do more with less — while improving customer experience.
🎁 Download the COS FSM One-Pager here!
As we wrap up another fast-moving year in telecom, one thing is clear: the U.S. fiber market is shifting. After years of aggressive construction, investors flooding in, and networks racing to pass as many homes as possible, the industry is now entering a new phase — one defined not by speed, but by strategy.
Mikael and Ashley break down the key trends shaping 2026 in this video⬇️
