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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The bill would provide some $6.25 million a year for the organization to help internet access companies expand their services and to bond for infrastructure improvements.
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If passed, this bill would streamline the application process required to construct broadband infrastructure on federal lands.
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Alaska is finally getting an Internet makeover.
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Verizon has pledged to provide free Wi-Fi via digital kiosks in 27 Sacramento parks.
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In a strategy known as broadband aggregation, municipalities, public-safety organizations and a university joined private businesses in an RFP seeking better broadband.
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Rules intended to ensure that Internet providers can’t play favorites with the traffic flowing across their networks.
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The bill is headed to the Senate for further consideration.
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As President Donald Trump’s administration looks to clamp down on federal spending, there’s deepening uncertainty about the flow of federal dollars necessary to bring faster internet to lower-population areas.
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AT&T supports the Trump administration’s plan to reverse the reclassification of ISPs as common carriers, a public utility designation codified under Title II of the Communications Act, but Title II itself has nothing to do with blocking or throttling — those rules were created separately by the FCC.
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The city signed a memorandum of understanding with WiredScore in order to certify which new developments are equipped with high-speed Internet access for businesses and residents.
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ViaSat said the new $625 million satellite will allow it to offer residential satellite internet plans with up to 100 megabits per second speeds and virtually unlimited data use.
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The service - which also launched Wednesday in Northern California, Utah, Kansas City, Houston, Oregon, the Seattle area and southwest Washington - is expected to be a niche product but could appeal to the growing number of cord cutters.
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There’s a line of thought that, because broadband is vital 21st-century infrastructure for commerce, government should provide it where the private sector can’t or won’t.
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With its new gigabit service, Comcast is delivering what Google Fiber could not or would not.
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The service the co-op is now providing offers a speed of 30 megabytes per second with no data cap and unlimited usage.
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The data that people provide will be used for a map that will show the speed of Internet service that households and businesses receive across the state.
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Ajit Pai's light-touch regulations have garnered significant, and often colorful, backlash.
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The controversial rollback of the 2015 Open Internet Order took a step forward after the Federal Communications Commission members voted 2-1 in favor of the reversal.
