Google Fiber Webpass uses wireless technology to provide high-speed internet to the apartments, condominiums, and offices we serve across the country. Wireless technology is a broad term that can mean many different things, like Wi-Fi, cellular, Bluetooth, IoT protocols, and military communications. Those are great, but the Google Fiber Webpass wireless method of internet deployment is different.
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The Enforcement Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission has entered into a Consent Decree to resolve its investigation into whether Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) constructed wireless facilities without complying with the Commission’s environmental and historic preservation rules, including rules implementing the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) and the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). The FCC's rules also direct these entities to coordinate with relevant state governments and tribal nations. To settle this matter, Verizon Wire
Cellphone carriers facing roughly $200 million in fines for sharing their customers’ locations are for now shielded from paying by the Federal Communications Commission’s partisan deadlock. The FCC has four commissioners—two Democrats and two Republicans—and needs at least three votes to move forward with fines it proposed years ago on the biggest wireless-service providers.
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