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May 2020

Children at risk as pandemic pushes them online, International Telecommunications Union warns

Children are accessing the internet at a younger age, spending longer online and are at greater risk of cyber bullying as the COVID-19 pandemic keeps them at home, said the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). The United Nations agency estimates that 1.5 billion children are out of school due to lockdown measures to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, forcing them to go online for their schooling but also their social lives and hobbies.

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Thu, 05/07/2020 - 18:00

Today’s FTTH networks are under tremendous strain as remote working is at an all-time high combined with the growth of 4K streaming, cloud gaming, AR/VR and enterprise services. At the same time, most service providers are building out high-capacity broadband networks leveraging a range of fixed broadband technologies making gigabit service offerings common place.

Service providers across the globe are now at a point where they must identify the right next-gen access strategies to ensure their competitive position today and provide a path to a scalable network for their future.


Property Investors See Fiber-Optic Cables as ‘Railroads of the Future’

Business closures and stay-at-home orders have hit the real-estate sector hard. But an obscure corner of the industry is benefiting from people staying at home. Fiber-optic cables are drawing a growing interest from investors. These cables, which transmit data through light and are a crucial component of high-speed internet, aren’t technically real estate.

Blue Ridge Mountain EMC Transforms Broadband Have-Nots Into Broadband Haves

Electric cooperatives have given hope to the rural broadband market, and Blue Ridge Mountain Electric Membership Corporation (BRMEMC), in the broadband industry for more than 17 years, has earned the right to call itself a pioneer in that emerging space. Several electric co-ops in the Southeast have contacted BRMEMC for advice about how to deploy a broadband network. BRMEMC, founded in 1938, is a member-owned electric cooperative headquartered in Young Harris, Georgia, serving more than 53,000 member-customers.

Digital Equity in Education in the Coronavirus Era

Illinois state and local officials are requiring the use of online instruction to effectively implement remote learning plans, but the “homework gap”—that is, the barrier that students face at school when they don’t have access1 to a broadband internet connection at home—disproportionately plagues Chicago’s low-income families and people of color. About 1 in 5 children under the age of eighteen lack access to broadband, and are primarily Black or Latino. With COVID-19 forcing school districts to adopt remote learning for the remainder of the school year, the students who were already the mo

Bi-Partisan Delegation Introduces Universal Broadband Act

Reps Collin Peterson (D-MN) and Don Young (R-AK) -- with the bipartisan support of T.J.

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