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The FCC has unveiled the National Broadband Plan whose goal is to ensure every American has access to broadband. The plan addresses broadband competition, reallocating spectrum for mobile broadband, reforming universal service regulations and nudging public schools, health care providers and government agencies to make maximum use of broadband. You can download the National Broadband [...]
Residents of the Calgary neighborhood of Hawkwood can now get free Wi-Fi access throughout their community and they can upgrade their service at lower prices than the traditional ISPs, says Wi-Fi provider GoNaeco. Every resident and business using the GoNaeco network also has access to a community portal site, featuring community-specific news, events and local [...]
Winncom Technologies, a value- added distributor of wireless equipment, has a new distribution agreement with Wavion Wireless Networks for North American customers. Wavion makes Wi-Fi base stations that use spatially adaptive beam-forming technology. Read the full announcement here. According to Wavion, the WBS-2400 and WBS-5800 Wi-Fi Base Stations, which utilize digital beam-forming and Space Division Multiple Access [...]
Broadband speed tests are nothing new to many readers of this site. Most of us probably use Speedtest.net. But the fact that the FCC has posted a broadband test tool profiled prominently on the Broadband.gov website, shows how politically sensitive broadband — its presence and absence, its cost and speed — has become. It’s getting to [...]
I spoke to Steve Reneker, CIO of Riverside, California, about the status of the citywide Wi-Fi network that AT&T and MetroFi deployed in May 2007. AT&T wants to give the network back to the city, but the city council must decide on 16 March 2010 whether to agree. It is controversial: the city must pay [...]
Kyushu University and PicoCELA Inc., both based in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, have developed and put into use technology to build a wide-area wireless LAN at a dramatically reduced cost. The newly developed wireless multihop backhaul connects multiple wireless LAN access points to make them work with one another as a single radio network, cutting back [...]
The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has awarded grants to fund broadband mapping and planning activities in Virginia and American Samoa under NTIA’s State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program. The program, funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, will increase broadband access and adoption through better data collection and [...]
The NTIA has provided an $80 million broadband stimulus grant to the Louisiana Broadband Alliance to help bridge the technological divide, boost economic growth, create jobs, and improve education and healthcare. The grant will bring high-speed Internet access to more than 80 community anchor institutions – including universities, K-12 schools, libraries, healthcare facilities – and [...]
This is part 2 of a series written by Marc Canter about digital cities and fiber optic networks. As the economic roller coaster ride over the past 20 years has taken us to new highs and lows, Cleveland and the Northern Ohio region have seen their economy flatline. Once known as the home of innovation [...]
Winncom Technologies® is a Value Added Distributor of broadband wireless equipment and a complete telecommunication solutions provider. Since 1993, Winncom remains at the forefront of the global technology marketplace, serving customers in over 30 countries worldwide. As 4G becomes a reality with an increasing demand for a wide range of data, speed, and bandwidths, Winncom [...]
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