AT&T is ditching copper and building fiber, but many will get only 5G or satellite. JON BRODKIN – DEC 5, 2024 AT&T this week detailed plans to eliminate copper phone and DSL lines from its network while leaving many customers in rural areas with only wireless or satellite as an alternative. In a presentation for […]
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Commission presents new initiatives with Gigabit Infrastructure Act Proposal On 23 February, The Commission presented a set of actions aimed to make Gigabit connectivity available to all citizens and businesses across the EU by 2030. https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-presents-new-initiatives-gigabit-infrastructure-act-proposal The following publications contain the support study, proposal and impact assessment for The Gigabit Infrastructure Act. The Commission […]
March 2, 2022 Signify is introducing Trulifi by Signify at schools in Belgium to help them accelerate their digital transformation. Trulifi by Signify, which ensures high-speed connectivity through light waves (LiFi) instead of radio waves (WiFi), provides students and teachers fast, secure and reliable access to a broad range of online learning tools, content and other online possibilities. […]
The Chinese tech giant has reportedly had access to carrier equipment for over a decade. Corinne Reichert February 12, 2020 11:27 AM PST Huawei can reportedly access backdoors in mobile networks globally. Chinese tech giant Huawei can reportedly access the networks it helped build that are being used by mobile phones around the world. It’s […]
Union reps say workers want protect their wages from future cuts and guard against an industry that increasingly makes precarious work standard practice Stefan Labbé / Tri-City News OCTOBER 2, 2019 09:35 AM The strike has spilled out onto the intersection of Broadway St. and Mary Hill Bypass in Port Coquitlam Photograph By STEFAN […]
Ruimy, a MP from BC thinks that precautions for microwave antennas and health impacts are all “unicorns and fairy dust”. He has been met by many people from the lower mainland about RF and he still denies the issue, in fact the posting below indicates he is promoting for more antennas and satellites emitting RF. […]
April 10, 2001 by Shigeaki (Shey) Hakusui, President, Harmonix Corporation The demand for bandwidth is growing at a rapid pace. International Data Corporation projects that Internet commerce in the United States will grow from $74 billion in 1999 to $708 billion in 2003, with the number of computer users more than doubling from 81 million […]
BC’s remote and coastal communities have a golden opportunity to keep their internet service – and profits – in local hands Claire Gilmore – April 23, 2019 Many communities across North America are eschewing much-hyped 5G wireless networks to build and operate their own “fiber-to-the-premises,” or wired, networks. BC’s remote and coastal communities now […]
Wed, 03/20/2019 – 8:54am By B. Blake Levitt The Northwest Hills Council of Governments, urged by the well-intentioned local group Northwest ConneCT, is encouraging towns to embrace fiber broadband in their new plans of conservation and development and build out fiber as soon as possible. Towns can already own fiber networks for non-commercial use. But […]
2019/03/18 LINDA FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE http://www.stopsmartmetersbc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Wired-to-Deliver-New-Site-Promotes-Community-Fiber-not-Industry-Driven-5G-Press-Release-by-Connected-Communities-March-18-2019.pdf Contact: [email protected] WIRED TO DELIVER: New Site Promotes Community Fiber not Industry-Driven 5G While last week’s launch of the federal spectrum auction gave the green light to 5G in Canada, many communities across North America are choosing to build and operate their own fiber-to-the-premises networks. An innovative new Canadian […]
