In his inaugural State of the State address, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont said he wants Connecticut's cities to be the first in New England with access to fifth-generation, mobile networks. In his remarks, Gov. Lamont said, "The telecommunication companies are ready to start building — let's harness that excitement." He also expressed his aspirations to help bring faster internet to rural towns, "which tend to have more limited options than denser communities."
McCardle elected MLT mayor pro tem; public hearing Monday on small cell wireless facilities
The Mountlake Terrace City Council will review two issues that will come before it during its business meeting on Monday, one including a public hearing and adoption of revisions to city code amendments involving small cell wireless regulations. For several months, the council has...
The connected classroom
Crown Castle’s Vice President of Fiber Sales, Doug Turtz, provided an Industry Viewpoint regarding rapidly changing technology in the education environment. "One highly scalable option for the education arena to address this increasing bandwidth demand is through dark fiber ...
Broadband access, workforce development Frederick EDA's top legislative priorities
The Frederick County Economic Development Authority (FDA) on Thursday unanimously approved legislative priorities to send to the Virginia General Assembly, one of which is "to support policies and budgets that provide broadband access to all parts of Virginia." The FDA believes th...
City considers amendments to regulations for small cells
In its Dec. 18 meeting, Gaithersburg Mayor and City Council approved the introduction of amendments to regulations adopted in Decemeber 2017 that govern the installation of small cell technology within city rights-of-ways. Staff proposed these amendments in response to the new FCC...
Partnership to develop 5G base station chip
Sivers IMA, developer of mmWave products, said that it will create a 5G base station chip with RF power product company Ampleon, which it expects to bring to market by the end of 2019. Both companies will jointly develop the product, with Ampleon being the main sales channel to Ti...
D-Link gets on the 5G train with a new home router
Ahead of CES 2019, D-Link has announced a new 5G home router (DWR-2010) that, instead of plugging into a traditional cable jack or modem, will use 5G mobile broadband to supply WiFi to a house. D-Link has yet to release information on how much the device will cost, which carriers ...