Broadband & Network
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The federal Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program makes some $21 billion available for non-deployment purposes. States are exploring how this funding can be used, and questions remain.
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Plus, new legislation would revive the FCC’s equity council if enacted, a report reveals connectivity gaps in tribal communities, some municipal broadband networks outperform their competitors, and more.
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Officials in Brown County, S.D., continue to address a year-long communications issue that causes delivery of emails from Gmail accounts to be delayed or not arrive at all.
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The federal agency is currently seeking grant applications for rural broadband infrastructure projects through mid-May.
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A regional broadband study has been underway in Vance, Granville and Franklin counties, and officials are beginning to see a clearer picture of where residents’ access to Internet is falling short.
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The New York Power Authority has kicked off the first phase of a sensor network that will allow the agency to monitor its power plants, substations and transmission lines across the state.
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Some researchers believe that the unused broadcasting space might be the perfect way to deliver Internet connectivity.
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The project to build a high-speed Internet network across the state could collapse if lawmakers don’t iron out where funding is coming from.
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Roughly 90 percent of state residents have access to some form of Internet connection, but less than 60 percent of them are taking advantage of it.
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GoNetSpeed, which is bringing portions of five neighborhoods ultra-fast broadband Internet, plans to build out its fiber-optic network to additional Connecticut communities if it reaches 10 percent interest from residents.
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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.
