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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While telecommunications companies say they will deploy 5G technology in the near future, significant barriers to its implementation exist.
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Almost one-third of Ohio's rural residents lack a reliable home-broadband connection.
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The Boston manufacturer, ATI Systems, said it had developed a patch that will be rolled out shortly and noted that such a hack 'is not a trivially easy thing that just anyone can do.'
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Gov. Bill Walker has called for $9.5 million in state spending to centralize and modernize the call system.
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The towns of Calais and Baileyville are following the lead of other towns and putting up the money to make faster Internet speeds a reality.
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The innovative project will be funded with a $22.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
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The municipality is the smallest and densest city in Southern California, making it an ideal test bed for the latest urban technologies.
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Even with community support, the costs associated with a plan to build out a municipal broadband network are giving some city leaders pause.
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Plus, Atlanta seeking smart city infrastructure, more ideas from the Bloomberg Mayors Challenge, and more.
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With the legislation set to go to Gov. Nathan Deal's desk for a signature, lawmakers have yet to iron out how the effort to extend Internet into rural areas will be funded.
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As states struggle to close the connectivity gap in rural areas, some experts believe a federal mandate, similar to the one that first brought those residents electricity, might be in order.
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For some, not having the latest technology is not an accident.
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Companies have until mid-April to file proposals with the city of Atlanta to develop a wide-reaching smart cities infrastructure project.
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Mayor Percy Bland shared the objections of scores of residents, but the 250-foot cell tower was ultimately approved by the city council.
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86 Colorado cities and towns have cast restrictions on municipal broadband.
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A highly-skilled group of hackers is using spear-phishing emails and watering-hole attacks against administrators and engineers to manipulate vital control systems and see how federal authorities react.
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Dozens of legislators are pushing for a proposal that would counter the Federal Communications Commissions reversal of Obama-era internet protections at the state level.
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Officials in the city of Waterloo are considering a traffic camera program that would not only support daily traffic monitoring, but in investigative situations too.
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