How State Grants Support Broadband Deployment
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
December 2021
Big Tech doesn’t always make it easy to use the apps you want. Here’s how to take back control. (Washington Post)
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EarthLink Jumps on Fixed Wireless Bandwagon
Internet service provider EarthLink has joined a growing number of companies offering fixed wireless service. The company’s offering, dubbed EarthLink Wireless Home Internet, uses LTE or 5G for connectivity to the internet and can support up to 64 devices, in comparison with 10 devices for a mobile hotspot. A typical household has 11 connected devices, EarthLink notes on its website.
‘We have work to do’: What to know about the state of Minnesota’s high-speed internet infrastructure
The last two years have been pivotal ones for the future of high-speed internet access in Minnesota. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted and exacerbated the lack of broadband in many parts of the state as people shifted to remote work and school. Congress poured unprecedented amounts of money into subsidizing construction of new infrastructure like fiber-optic cables in Minnesota and across the country.
Adtran and partners encourage electric utilities to deploy fiber broadband
Fiber access provider Adtran is partnering with FiberRise and KGPCo to help electric cooperatives, investor-owned utilities and public power companies to build fiber broadband networks.
T-Mobile: 2022 5G expansion will encompass rural areas not targeted by AT&T and Verizon
T-Mobile plans to make its Ultra Capacity 5G service available to 100 million more Americans in 2022, and as the company’s President of Technology Neville Ray told investors, it will have to expand its geographic coverage five-fold to achieve that goal, reaching many rural areas. Ultra Capacity 5G is the name that T-Mobile uses for 5G deployed in mid-band spectrum, which is widely viewed as supporting the optimum mixture of range and speed.
Frontier and Nokia Complete First Successful Trial of 25Gb Per Second Broadband Network in US (Frontier)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Tue, 12/14/2021 - 16:14President Biden’s ambitious broadband funding has a key impediment: an outdated map of who needs it
The federal government is slated to pump a record amount of funding into projects to expand Internet access and affordability.