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."
CES 2019: Las Vegas and Los Angeles see 5G as a game changer for smart cities
Speaking at a roundtable, AT&T VP of IoT and GM of Smart Cities Mike Zeto said "smart cities deployments are already moving from the original focus on getting infrastructure deployed to now concentrating on more citizen-focused applications." Zeto focused on how 5G is needed for s...
Speaker backs rural broadband proposal
Georgia House Speaker David Ralston announced that he "supports a plan to fund rural broadband by sticking a new tax on e-books, steaming services and other digital goods while lowering an existing tax on traditional services such as landlines and cable TV." In a statement discuss...
America desperately needs fiber internet, and the tech giants won’t save us
In a conversation on fiber with Recode’s Peter Kafka and Harvard Law School professor Susan Crawford, Crawford "explained why nationwide access to high-speed fiber internet — already standard in parts of Asia and Europe — is important for everything from the future of work t...
Broadband reforms welcome, but public must remain vigilant
The Sun Community News Editorial Board published an editorial highlighting concerns about New York State’s broadband program. The editorial encouraged "local lawmakers to develop a systemic structure to capture and direct all telecommunications-related concerns" from residen...
City Council votes to approve 5G in city limits
Sioux Falls "will be one of the first in cities South Dakota – and possibly among the first in the nation – to roll out 5G technology." Verizon Wireless has been given the go-ahead from city council to install "small cell technology" on poles and parks around the city....
Big Cable’s ‘10G’ campaign betrays a fear of wireless 5G
At CES 2019, the NCTA and other cable groups announced a new 10G initiative. Unlike 5G, the 10G branding "isn’t referring to a generational count, but rather the kind of network that the various global cable groups are hoping to achieve: 10 gigabits." Michael Powell, the pre...