Broadband & Network
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The City Council approved giving OnLight Aurora, set up to manage the city’s fiber network, $80,000 via either a loan or grant. A key issue, an alderman said, is getting the organization back on track. -
Plus, New York has reopened applications for grants through its ConnectALL program, New Mexico celebrated progress on connectivity expansion, fiber networks continue expanding to new locations, and more.
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All middle-mile construction is now either built or funded, an official said. The next step is last-mile work, bringing actual connections to homes, and meeting with stakeholders to gather infrastructure data.
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The city plans to apply for a $114,229 grant from the Public Service Commission’s Broadband Expansion Grant Program. The grant would cover half the cost to expand fiber-optic infrastructure.
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Commissioners approved updates to their rules for approval to place cell signal-boosting equipment in public right-of-way, opening the door for their potential siting on local open space property.
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In urban neighborhoods, where Internet service and health care can be hard to access, a novel pilot project uses local barbershops and salons as wireless hubs and hypertension screening centers.
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The county announced the launch of a broadband campaign consisting of a brief online survey and speed test for residential and commercial addresses. The survey will serve as a means to map access levels.
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High-speed Internet could come to all area addresses without a tax increase if a two-thirds majority of voters sign off. Residents attended a recent town hall meeting to learn more about the project.
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KentuckyWired, a state-owned broadband network, started providing service to its first state customer last week. The network is expected to provide high-speed Internet to all state offices and institutions by late 2020.
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One-on-one laptop computers, broadband networking and advance planning have allowed the spread of e-learning programs in more school districts across the country, rendering the snow day obsolete.
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Residents of Columbus say they were stunned that the city or companies didn't give them any say about where cell service providers can put up the towers for the new 5G — fifth-generation cellular wireless — technology.
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Health care and broadband expansion are shaping up to be two of the more prominent issues facing the Maine Legislature in what will be a tense legislative session if the mood at a Friday meeting of leaders is any indication.
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For more than a year, a broadband advisory committee has been meeting in Westmoreland, N.H., to brainstorm solutions for the town’s dismal Internet connectivity situation, and now it will detail its plan.
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The Lewis County Public Utility District has long heard the concerns of citizens living in rural and more isolated areas about a lack of an adequate Internet connection and the negative impact it has on their daily lives.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced its first round of rural broadband funding awards as part of its ReConnect Pilot Program. Alabama got a huge slice of that pie to fund four major efforts.
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During an investigation of several prominent mobile carriers, the FCC has found that three major companies regularly appear to overstate the amount of coverage that their service provides in maps.
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With Chattanooga, Tenn., as a backdrop, members of the Metropolitan Information Exchange hashed out development, deployment and operational strategies for fast, ubiquitous community broadband infrastructure.
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Lakeland, Fla., has entered into agreements with two private Internet service providers that may be willing to strike a private-public partnership to offer gig-speed Internet at Monday's city commission meeting.
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This week the T-Mobile wireless carrier switched on its next-generation 5G cellular-data service across the state, which is a move meant to speed up online access for its smartphone users throughout Minnesota.
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Davison County, S.D., is pursuing a first responder-specific broadband network that personnel would be able to use to communicate on exclusive channels during emergency events in the region.
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State and local officials in Alabama are now touting a new partnership between C Spire and Alabama Power, expected to bring faster Internet services to Birmingham and central Alabama in 2020.
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