Shelley McKinley, general manager of technology and corporate responsibility at Microsoft in Redmond, WA, wrote an op-ed in The Virginian-Pilot highlighting the importance of broadband access in the state in order to "start or run a modern business, access telemedicine, take an online class, digitally transform their farm or research a school project online."
Tech company establishes strategic partnership
LGBT Tech, a non-profit that encourages early adoption and use of new technologies and that engages with public policy leaders, has announced its partnership with Crown Castle. Crown Castle is supporting LGBT Tech’s PowerOn program in Washington, D.C., which empowers homeles...
Super Bowl 2019: Are the wireless networks up to snuff?
Ahead of Super Bowl LIII, wireless carriers have spent millions of dollars and years installing hundreds of new antennas and small cells in and around Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta to increase the capacity of the network for the more than 1 million fans expected to come to town...
CPUC judge wants complex pole attachment issues to be even more complicated
According to a ruling by an adminstrative law judge, utility pole associations (privately and municipally owner) and telecom companies should be regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission. The ruling concerns a dispute between Pacific Gas and Electric, which owns pole...
This congressman wants to build a ‘digital’ border wall that would also provide rural broadband
Texas Representative Will Hurd is partial to the idea of a digital wall: "a border-wide system of technology such as cameras, sensors, and drones communicating through a fiber optic network to keep the border secure." Hurd noted the digital wall could close the digital divide, sta...
Bowdoinham gets pitch for $580,000 broadband internet expansion
Bowdoinham residents coping with lagging internet speeds could start to see change later this year. The town partnered with Lincolnville Communications to design and engineer a fiber network to provide broadband internet to the unserved or areas that lack high-speed access, which ...
High-speed broadband to increase in parts of Spokane and Stevens counties
Idaho-based Intermax Networks will receive $216,045 annually to "provide fixed wireless broadband and voice over internet protocol services to 823 homes and businesses in Spokane County." Virginia-based Declaration Networks Group Inc. will receive $390,410 annually to "provide fix...