BRANCH COUNTY — County commissioners invited Frontier Northern communication executives back on April 18 to discuss holes in the countywide service internet plan. In a March presentation, Frontier service maps showed significant areas of Sherwood, Butler, Gilead, and Noble townships not receiving Frontier fiber service under the $22.4 million state Realizing Opportunity with Broadband Infrastructure …
AT&T Fiber about lay down internet lines bound to improve access for schools, businesses and residents. Okaloosa County, Crestview and Fort Walton Beach residents will soon see access to expanded internet service as AT&T is about to upgrade its fiber network to thousands of residents, institutions and businesses in those areas that may not have …
Gigapower, a joint venture partly funded by AT&T, said on Thursday that it intends to build out a fiber network in the Southern Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, area. The company said it intends to roll out fiber in the communities of Bloomington, Eden Prairie, Eagan, Savage, Apple Valley, Burnsville, Farmington, Lakeville, Rosemount and Shakopee. Gigapower is …
A near-billion dollar fiber optic network is one step closer to becoming a reality for Memphis. On Wednesday, the Economic Development Growth Engine for Memphis and Shelby County (EDGE) approved a 15-year payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) for a 3,400-mile fiber optic network. The total project investment cost is worth $829,160,561. “[This project] is designed to ensure that …
Stretching thousands upon thousands of miles under your feet, a web of fibrous ears is listening. Whether you walk over buried fiber optics or drive a car across them, above-ground activity creates a characteristic vibration that ever-so-slightly disturbs the way light travels through the cables. With the right equipment, scientists can parse that disturbance to …
New York will receive $228.2 million in federal funding to connect tens of thousands of homes in rural and underserved communities to high-speed Internet. Applications are being accepted now for the ConnectALL’s Municipal Infrastructure Program, an effort to bridge the so-called digital divide that has kept some New York communities from connecting to the most …
BALTIMORE — Baltimore City will distribute thousands more free Chromebooks to low-income households, and find more ways to subsidize computing devices for the general public. That’s part of the city’s new, five-year Digital Inclusion Strategy, which was officially released today as part of the ongoing effort to bridge the “digital divide.” One initiative is giving …