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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Napa scrapped plans for an advisory ballot measure asking residents where they stand on regulation of small-cell units, transmitters mounted to light posts and utility poles to fill wireless coverage gaps.
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Verizon Wireless is the second cellular carrier to offer publicly available 5G mobile service in Houston, though its Ultra Wideband product initially is limited to a handful of locations around the city.
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Officials revealed to local media Wednesday that a minor security slip that led to the recent cyberincident. The state, while having mostly recovered, will need a few days for all services to be up and running.
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Verizon Wireless is the second cellular carrier to offer publicly available 5G mobile service in Houston, though its Ultra Wideband product initially is limited to a handful of locations around the city.
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An online survey conducted by Ames, Iowa, found that 70 percent of participants graded their Internet service as "fair" or "poor," with comments detailing wide-scale dissatisfaction with lack of speed and unreliability.
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Telecommunications and technology company Nex-Tech is in the midst of a major upgrade to its infrastructure in Great Bend, a project that has garnered a lot of interest and curiosity from consumers.
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Buckeye Rural Electric Cooperative has a $2.5 million fiber project grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization Initiative.
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A second, large school system in Butler County, Ohio, now has plans to offer thousands of laptops to high school students over the course of the next school year, facilitating increased access to tech in the region.
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A new ordinance would create location standards and design guidelines for installing small wireless facilities on public rights-of-way. Also called small cells, these facilities are the implementation tool for 5G.
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Cedar Falls, Iowa, has set utility rates for 2020. Prices are not changing for business or residential Internet and phone service. However, Cedar Falls Utility broadband Internet is expected to get faster soon.
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A municipal Internet service run by the city could increase bandwidth 10 fold and drop prices to consumers by about 30 percent, according to the CEO of a company seeking to bring the service to Quincy, Mass.
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New proposed federal bills address everything from reporting of Internet speeds to a universal broadband definition for federal programs, but different leaders and experts raise points and questions about the laws' potential practical value.
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During a nearly three-hour hearing on municipal code amendments aimed at bringing Laguna Beach into compliance with federal rules, residents made one thing clear to the City Council — they don’t want 5G in their town.
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A recent Connecticut Superior Court decision has given cities and towns in that state the right to use existing utility infrastructure within to create municipal networks to deliver cheap, fast Internet.
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A municipal Internet service run by the city could increase bandwidth tenfold and drop prices to consumers by about 30 percent, according to the CEO of a company seeking to bring the service to Quincy, Mass.
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Pushback against San Diego's smart street lights program — which puts cameras on street lights and collects data — continued at a forum downtown where speakers called it a data goldmine for the private sector.
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A partnership between the telecommunications company and technology company NEC is looking at whether the fiber-optic networks coursing through cities can be used to glean real-world intelligence.
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Eligible metro Atlanta high school students from seven school districts who don’t have reliable broadband Internet service at home can get assistance. This program is made possible by a collaboration with Sprint.
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