What we know about the nationwide cell outage that impacted thousands AT&T offers a $5 credit to customers affected by a communications outage. The outage affected thousands and was caused by a technical error. Oklahoma AT&T internet users were experiencing outages Friday afternoon. A spike in AT&T outage reports began just before 2 p.m. Friday, …
Joe Ann Vermillion | Guest columnist Oklahoma has a historic opportunity to expand access to affordable, reliable, high-speed internet to everyone in the state, no matter where they live or their circumstances. Access, however, depends on more than wires, poles and other pieces of infrastructure. It also depends on making sure that internet service is …
Mike Sanders | Guest columnist From downtown Oklahoma City and Tulsa to the far edges of the Panhandle and Ouachita Mountains, high-speed internet is no longer a luxury, it’s a necessity. For decades, the conversation about expanding internet access has taken place without a plan of action. Until now. The Oklahoma Broadband Governing Board recently …
LeFLORE COUNTY, Okla. (KOKH) — A $22 million grant investment to provide high-speed internet to Choctaw Nation in LeFlore County has been announced. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack and Rural Development Oklahoma State Director Kenneth Corn announced on Tuesday at the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development’s Reservation Economic Summit in …
More options for high speed internet are coming to Osage County thanks to a partnership between Cox Cable and the Indian Electric Cooperative. The Indian Electric Cooperative serves about 500 customers in Fairfax, and Cox is using their power lines to bring high speed internet through fiber optic cable. Fairfax is well known these days …
More than $374 million in grants were approved this week by officials with the Oklahoma Broadband Office. The grants, ranging in amounts from $7,000 to Dobson Fiber in Kiowa, to more than $22 million to the Pine Telephone Company in Choctaw, are earmarked for broadband infrastructure projects in 57 counties, the agency’s executive director, Mike …
Jensen Huang, center, Nvidia CEO and co-founder, arrives for a media round table event at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Friday dec. 8, 2023.(AP Photo-Vincent Thian) KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The CEO of technology giant Nvidia said Friday that he views Malaysia as a potential hub for artificial intelligence “manufacturing,” though he did not confirm …
Oklahoma’s most advanced recycling facility, based in Tulsa, said it is getting ready to be even busier with processing all the holiday aftermath. American Waste Control said its facility will process more than eight million pounds of recyclables over the next few weeks. The company said thanks to artificial intelligence, staff will be able to …