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 incentives would cost $5 million and are part of more than $60 million in utility customer funds that Gov. Scott Walker's administration wants to reallocate to expand broadband in rural areas of the state.
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Albuquerque is paying $1 million for the line, half of what it would have cost if the city didn't include the fiber installation in an ongoing private-sector project.
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The biggest sticking point is whether the legislation should apply to buildings where the property owner has a contract giving an Internet provider exclusive access to the property.
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The line has since been reconnected, but during the outage, Because the Internet was out, the building department couldn’t issue permits or schedule inspections.
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Persistent Telecom has decided to step out on its own to self-fund and build a secure, private LTE network for first responders.
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Two east Boulder County communities joined 24 other Colorado municipalities when they approved ballot measures allowing them to explore offering their own broadband internet service.
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Ohio will become the first large U.S. city to provide free Wi-Fi on all of its buses.
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The worldwide scourge of cybercrime afflicted 689 million people in the past year, or more than twice the population of the United States.
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Advocates must aggressively engage in politics at all levels if they hope to keep up with giant incumbents that expect the political winds to blow in their favor.
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Voters in several region municipalities opted out of a 2005 state law that restricted local governments from helping bring high-speed communications technology to more rural areas.
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Plans calls for Muni Metro to tie into the BART system about 12 to 18 months after a deal can be negotiated with the carriers.
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By July 2017 the project will connect the state’s 274 school districts and 600,000 students to the all-fiber Arkansas Public School Computer Network.
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High-speed internet could be coming to some unconnected areas of Yuba-Sutter through a federally-backed program.
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The privacy regulations approved by the Federal Communications Commission on a partisan 3-2 vote will be phased in over the next two years.
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Google's Access has announced the discontinuation of efforts to bring its fiber network to new cities. The redirect comes with job losses and the resignation of the division's CEO.
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The very rationales for the merger point to the opposite outcome.
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The Columbus, Neb., City Council is expected to consider the agreement to share development of the network at a meeting in November.
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The state's Broadband Enhancement Council has no definitive plans on how it will spend the $1.47 million, but a proposed “strategic plan” unveiled Oct. 20 gives some clues.
