Brough Turner, chief technology officer at NMS Communications, recently drilled into the working paper from the New America Foundation,  Wireless Pittsburgh: Sustainability of Possible Models for a Wireless Metropolitan-Area Network .  He criticizes the report, saying that in its analysis of sustainability it fails to mention “technology evolution or adoption rates of competing broadband services, i.e. cable [...]

A new report from Connected Nation predicts that the current legislation promoting broadband development in the U.S. could provide an economic stimulus of as much as $134 billion annually. According to a press release that accompanied the report, a “modest increase” in broadband adoptions nationally would produce the result. The report. re;eased today, was an obvious [...]

All zones of Minneapolis’s municipal Wi-Fi network will be delivering wireless Internet access by March 11. The roll-out comes nearly four months after it was originally anticipated and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune says  “some significant dead areas within those zones will remain for a while” due to problems accessing 124 light poles needed to mount and power [...]

The U. S. Department of Agriculture last week announced a series of grant programs for rural community development projects, including The Distance Learning and Telemedicine Loan and Grant Program designed to improve digital access to education and medical services. The deadline for applications is April 14. Click here to visit the USDA’s web site for more information [...]