Federal Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program funding will help Norcross, Georgia-based fiber-optic cable maker OFS add 100 jobs. The company’s expansion is expected to make statewide broadband access more available.
The law relieves data centers, hospitals and other critical infrastructure from state regulations around building high-capacity generators. It eases the process, following the abandonment of one such project.
Officials have wrapped a $1.9 million project to help cut down on tall vehicles hitting underpasses leading to the north Grand Island Bridges in Niagara Falls. The electronic over-height detection systems rely in part on infrared transmitters.
The city has an existing contract with gunfire detection company ShotSpotter, and will add its devices to the area, considered a shopping hub. The move follows a shots-fired incident earlier this year outside a mall.
Officials have earmarked or allocated $3 billion in funding to build 2,664 miles of network infrastructure, and nearly 4,000 miles has been leased or purchased. This puts aspects of the project more than a year ahead of targets.
Grand Traverse County received $18 million from the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act. It has awarded $15 million — with more than a quarter of those funds going to infrastructure. Broadband is among the potential uses in that category.
County leaders and officials at Internet service provider ToledoTel celebrated the first high-speed Internet connection Friday in a project that will bring broadband to more than 2,300 homes and businesses around the city of Winlock.
The Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Media and Broadband heard from experts on what ending or lapsing the federal Affordable Connectivity Program would mean to millions who rely on it for Internet access.
Technology work underway in Luzerne County includes a new infrastructure management platform, and migrating election-related information off paper. The goal is to make services more efficient and effective.
The Capitol Region Council of Governments is looking for a vendor to bring rentable scooters and bikes to Hartford and New Haven, Conn. The move is about six months after the shuttering of electric scooter provider Supermobility.
