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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SpaceX hit several major milestones with the launch of its next cluster of Starlink Internet satellites earlier this week from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s launch complex 40 in Florida.
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A coalition of seven counties and an Internet service provider are banding together to address connectivity gaps in the rural areas of the state. The model could be the basis for other regional partnerships.
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A common issue with rural broadband expansion is small towns not having enough leverage to establish better Internet service. But legislation could turn the tables, giving communities the authority to form a unified district.
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Over the last decade, Minnesota school districts have made tech a central part of lives in and outside the classroom. They’ve spent hundreds of thousands annually to equip students and teachers with a tablet or laptop.
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A year after Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobile revealed first steps toward 5G wireless broadband in cities, rival T-Mobile announced its own vision to light up 5G in 5,000 municipalities nationally — with a key catch.
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The 100 new hotspots, which residents can check out for free, were distributed to Ottawa County’s public libraries in October after the county received about $81,000 in grant funding for the program.
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State lawmakers, as well as Adirondack Mountain Club Executive Director Neil Woodworth and Dave Wolff of AdkAction, were part of a forum on cell and broadband service hosted by Mountain Lake PBS.
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Slow, unreliable Internet access has long since gone from being simply a rural inconvenience to an economic and social impediment for many small communities and isolated county residents who live there.
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The FCC said the merger will help close the digital divide and boost the United States’ leadership in 5G, the next generation of wireless internet. Under the merger, both companies have made pledges to advance the tech.
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County 0fficials recently announced the launch of a joint Broadband Availability and Adoption (BAAT) Campaign to determine needs and opportunities for broadband Internet growth in the region.
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Baltimore’s streets are dotted with more than 600 “small cell wireless facilities” on streetlights and utility poles, making the city one of the first areas in Maryland to welcome the new technology.
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For more than a decade, broadband expansion in Waterloo, Iowa, has been a relatively stagnant issue. But recent support for a feasibility study to evaluate the possibility of a municipal broadband option has put the city in the spotlight.
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Encinitas will amend its controversial 5G wireless policy, adding new restrictions on antenna placement near schools, daycares and residences in response to opponents’ well-organized lobbying efforts.
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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper signed the rural broadband mini-budget into law last month, funding the Growing Rural Economies with Access to Technology broadband grant program at $15 million annually for 10 years.
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Though the county high-speed broadband initiative remains on track, public Wi-Fi hot spots for citizens to connect to for free while out and about town aren’t likely to happen on the same timetable.
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Tom Burt, Microsoft’s vice president of customer security and trust, said the methods used in the most recent attack are similar to previous attacks against various governments, militaries, think tanks and financial companies.
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In its first 25 years, the Internet grew dramatically and organically with the users seeming to follow the same positive principles the scientists did. In the decades that followed, however, other aspects began to show through.
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A newly enacted state law threatens to take revenue out of city coffers by cutting the fees paid by telecommunications companies using city-owned land for their infrastructure. The move has been called corporate welfare.
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