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."
Crown Castle is betting big on distributed workloads
Paul Reddick, SVP of strategy, business and product development at Crown Castle, discussed the future of 5G and the infrastructure industry. Reddick emphasized his confidence in augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) apps for consumers as well as edge computing.
Harris County expands mobile library program with addition of fourth ‘Curiosity Cruiser’
The Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation, with financial support from companies and charitable organizations, donated and outfitted the new mobile library, which will provide books for children as well as STEM educational programming. Materials for the new cruiser were purchased with donat...
$160,000 Harwood grant to develop free electrical safety awareness training for telecom workers
The Communications Infrastructure Contractors Association has been selected by the US Department of Labor — OSHA to receive a $160,000 Susan Harwood Targeted Topic Training Grant for the 2022-2023 program year. Ken Hill, Director of Network Safety at Crown Castle and a member of the Associatio...
Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce to host region’s largest networking event
Crown Castle is sponsoring the 2022 B2B Expo in Saratoga Springs (NY), the region’s largest annual networking event. C.J. Day, enterprise sales manager of Crown Castle, stated, "Crown Castle is excited to be sponsoring the B2B Expo again this year. Each year, we leave the event having in...
US cell site count nears half a million
In an article discussing the growing US cell sites, Crown Castle was highlighted as "one of the nation's biggest cell site operators." Crown Castle CFO Dan Schlanger was quoted stating that the company's small cell business is often dragged down by "the time it takes to get all of the things i...
City of Pittsburgh will soon begin installation of its first unified fiber connectivity network
The City of Pittsburgh (PA) finalized its $10 million deal with Crown Castle to create the city's first unified fiber connectivity network. Terry Cummings, managing director for enterprise fiber for Crown Castle, told Technical.ly that although a full installation will take at least year, with...