Gage County (NE) selects firm for ARPA-backed broadband project
Gage County, Nebraska, has selected a contractor to improve high-speed broadband access in the county.
April 2022
Nielsen study shows most streaming viewers spend $30 or less (Fierce)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 04/12/2022 - 14:19Senators introduce bill to increase access to behavioral health services, treatment via telehealth for children and underserved (US Senate)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 04/12/2022 - 14:19The ACP's funding of $14.2 billion will modify and extend the Emergency Benefit Broadband Program (EBB), and helps connect families and households struggling to afford internet services, and ensures they can afford the broadband needed for work, school, healthcare and more.
Learn more about how households can receive free monthly credits for internet services, the new program's impact on the AAPI community, and strategies on how to best get our communities connected.
Summit County starting $75 million fiber internet project
Summit County, Ohio, is planning to spend $75 million on a fiber internet project that will include building a 125-mile fiber optic ring to connect public safety entities in all 31 county communities and help expand internet access for residents and businesses. There are also plans in the works to work with private internet service providers, who could spend up to $300 million on the project, making the total figure for a potential public-private project nearly $400 million.
New Orleans council president subpoenas senior member of mayor's staff over 'Smart Cities' proposal (WDSU)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 04/12/2022 - 12:17Baltimore investigators discover hundreds of slipshod small cell installations (Light Reading)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 04/12/2022 - 12:17
Congress Expands Buy America Requirements in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
Domestic content preference laws, which require that certain goods purchased with federal funds be manufactured primarily in the United States, have received increased attention from both Congress and the executive branch in recent years. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act made changes to “Buy America” requirements for federally funded infrastructure projects. Buy America requirements traditionally extend to publicworks transportation and water-related infrastructure.
Embracing Network Resiliency
For years the industry used the word redundancy when talking about how we protected our networks. The primary aspects of redundancy are having multiple fiber routes in place so that areas don’t become isolated if a fiber is cut or having enough spare electronics to quickly recover from problems. But in recent years, we’ve started to talk about resiliency, which encompasses redundancy but means a whole lot more. Resiliency means taking proactive steps to prepare against reasonably expected problems of all sorts.