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Your Wireless Connection
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WIA – When it comes to internet connectivity, time and money matter. States will need to take into consideration cost and time to deployment when spending their federal broadband allocations. While fiber is an excellent broadband technology, fixed wireless has also proven itself to be an effective broadband solution where difficult terrain, cost, and time are barriers to deploying fiber. Read More
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Broadband Breakfast – Amelia De Jesus, VP of workforce solutions at WIA, suggested that providers leverage the rising generation’s interest in virtual gaming and augmented reality to encourage them to engage in a career that they care about, namely the infrastructure that enables the applications that they use. Read More
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Telecompetitor – The $451 million that Kansas will receive in the BEAD rural broadband funding program will be sufficient to make service available to everyone in the state if 25% of it goes to fixed wireless access (FWA), said Jade Piros de Carvalho, director of the Kansas Office of Broadband Development. Read More
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Inside Towers – Out of 13,733 cell sites in the relevant counties, just 85 were out of service as of noon Eastern Daylight Time on Monday, according to DIRS. Los Angeles County had the most outages, at 30, followed by Riverside County, at 24. Read More
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Urgent Communications -Verizon Frontline and AT&T FirstNet emergency response services are working toward restoring mobile service in Maui. Both providers have restored cell service in Upcountry Maui. Read More
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Inside Towers – In response to the unfortunate incidents involving school shootings, some states have enacted laws that call for schools to install panic button alarm systems. However, these well-intentioned measures will only work if the infrastructure is in place to support them. Read More
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Broadband Breakfast – The Commerce Department released details of a proposed limited waiver of the Buy America rules for the agency’s Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program that outlines specific criteria for categorizing each component as “produced in the United States.” Read More
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