Broadband & Network
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The state has received final federal approval on how it plans to spend nearly $149 million to expand Internet access statewide. The funds come from the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program. -
Plus, federal legislation supporting rural Internet access gets introduced, Utah’s legislature will consider a law establishing digital literacy education, Texas is investing millions in broadband expansion, and more.
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Hawaii has received federal approval to begin spending nearly $149 million to expand high-speed Internet statewide, marking one of the largest digital infrastructure investments in state history.
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The final year-end numbers show districts in the state spent just $2.2 million of the allotted $3.64 million to negotiate their own broadband contracts; the other $1.37 million will revert to the state general fund.
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The town is considering a trial run of sorts by offering an Internet hot spot in the downtown area.
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The funding is roughly 40 percent of a four-state telecommunications loan package to improve broadband service in rural America.
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The project will get 10 cities and 17 townships above a goal for Internet speed of downloads at 10 megabits per second and uploads at 5 megabits per second across the state.
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The upgraded Arkansas Public School Computer Network offers speeds of 200 Kbps versus the current statewide average of 5 Kbps, and more than 230 other school districts and charter schools are in line for the upgrade.
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Sen. Chris Walters predicts that the state could see as much as a $1 billion growth in the state's Gross Domestic Product in the first year the network is implemented.
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The Obama administration's digital divide crusade is expanding and is expected to initially reach more than 275,000 households through increased broadband access, technical training and digital devices.
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The state's broadband project coordinator says having access to a state-of-the-art open fiber-optic network that reaches every home and business is as important as building roads and bringing water and electricity to residents.
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The tower's carriers, AT&T and Verizon, experience service deficiencies in the area because the tower’s height is insufficient to provide full coverage to the area.
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The goal is to link the region with fiber optic cable in a circle and provide access to each city, each of which would determine its own service and rates.
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The new areas have varying signup deadlines that extend into early next year, and each must reach its signup goal – a certain number of homes committed to use the service – by the deadline.
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Local utility EPB insists the investment is paying off in Chattanooga, which has built a growing tech startup community based upon the "Gig City" and "Gig Tank" fostered by EPB's high-speed fiber-optic network.
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An ongoing project spearheaded by city officials, called Gigabit Keene, has begun to address how the city might pave the way for faster Internet, in the city and region.
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Wireless money has been pouring into the city, and not just because it’s the nation’s 33rd-biggest market, with a metro-area population of 2 million.
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Beginning in 2018, fiber will be buried to reach every customer — business and residential — in 27 cities and townships.
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If plans continue, the county would oversee access to public rights-of-way in unincorporated areas and coordinate with local city governments on the network's design and construction.
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Two companies have filed permitting paperwork on behalf of the tech giant, and Google confirmed July 1 that it has filed its first permit application with the city.
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The vandalism was the latest of nearly a dozen such attacks during the last year across the region, an FBI spokesman said.
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