Broadband & Network
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County commissioners got a revised schedule for federally funded broadband work. Service provider contracts remain to be signed, and construction is slated to wrap by the end of 2029.
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The Trump administration has asserted for months that its “bargain” version of the federal $42.5 billion grant program to expand access to broadband Internet would save taxpayers money.
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Ohio estimates just under 9 percent of its population has no access to broadband Internet, and despite throwing dollars at the problem, rural, older and lower-income Americans still face high costs to cross the digital divide.
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Expanding access to broadband services in rural areas — including large swaths of north central Idaho — should be a top priority for the state’s government, according to Gov. Brad Little’s broadband task force.
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State legislators in California plan to push for measures to require at least 72 hours of backup power at cell towers after phone and Internet service failed during widespread PG&E power outages.
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Funding from Indiana's Next Level Broadband program will support a Mainstream Fiber Networks LLC project to provide broadband to about 2,084 unserved households and 389 unserved businesses in Floyd County.
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The nationwide telecommunications company is comprehensively rebuilding and modernizing the communications infrastructure at Tyndall, which was devastated by Hurricane Michael more than a year ago.
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The reports from phone and internet companies, made available Tuesday, help explain why hundreds of thousands of people lost critical communications tools during Pacific Gas & Electric Co.’s October blackouts.
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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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