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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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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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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