Broadband & Network
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Plus, the National Digital Inclusion Alliance offers digital inclusion programming guidance amid mass enforcement actions, a report reveals consumer cost concerns, millions of seniors lack service, and more. -
Plus, North Carolina is investing millions in broadband, legislation has advanced in U.S. Congress to assess satellite broadband in the Appalachian region, AI is impacting wireless network demand, and more.
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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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The structures will serve as the backbone for Google’s high-speed network.
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The legislation calls for Homeland Security to set up and enforce standards for cybersecurity among the.gov agencies, and would empower the department to conduct risk assessment and take action when a cyberthreat is detected.
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The agency helps create a critical mass around the broadband issue and legitimizes the focus.
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City officials have announced a years-long project to turn Hudson into a Gigabit City through the creation of Velocity Broadband, a city-owned Internet service.
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Richmond's high-crime, low-income Iron Triangle is getting free Internet access from the city, and if new grants come in, access will expand.
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Though some disapprove of the choice being made so quickly, commissioners say the need for high-speed Internet in outlying parts of the county, and the closing window for access to federal funds, trumps the usual lengthy public hearing process.
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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.
