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FCC Chief Is Taking on the Pentagon...And DOT, NOAA, Energy

Canada Dot Com 01 Jun 2020

mobile broadband capacity, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai hasn’t been afraid to anger colleagues in government ... President Donald Trump elevated him three years ago to chairman of the commission, which was created in 1934 to keep radio signals straight and now doing the same with wireless broadband....

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Hytera Leads Enhanced Development of Push-to-Talk over Cellular Industry

The Marshall News Messenger 01 Jun 2020

PoC offers instant PTT communications based on public cellular broadband networks, rather than private narrowband Land Mobile Radio (LMR) systems ... Public cellular networks provide much wider coverage areas (usually nationwide), support rich multimedia broadband data applications and incur no infrastructure costs or radio frequency licensing fees....

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Aruba Unveils New Secure AI-Powered Solutions and Vision for the Reimagined Workplace

The Marshall News Messenger 01 Jun 2020

Secure Remote Access to Business-Critical Resources – (RAPs) and gateways extend access to enterprise applications and services hosted on-premises or in the public cloud, anywhere employees work. Compatible with broadband and cellular networks, RAPs provide both Ethernet and ......

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Maryland BPW talks funding for rural broadband expansion

Herald Mail 31 May 2020

ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland Board of Public Works has approved the state’s entering into grant agreements totaling $9.6 million to go toward broadband deployment in rural areas where access to high-speed internet service is slim ... Talbot County Public Schools Superintendent Dr....

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Online learning during pandemic leaves 40,000 WNY kids behind

The Buffalo News 31 May 2020

“That’s a big, big concern,” said Bret Apthorpe, superintendent of Jamestown Public Schools ... For example, a third of those 40,000 kids without a computer or broadband at home live in Buffalo, where eight out of 10 students in Buffalo Public Schools are considered economically disadvantaged....

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Can we save the night sky from satellite streaks?

Ars Technica 31 May 2020

/ The solar eclipse and ISS transit back in August of 2017. (credit. ). As much of the world has slowed down amid COVID-19, the same cannot be said for the burgeoning small satellite broadband industry. In recent weeks, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced he hopes to move the company’s Starlink broadband service to public beta in about six months ... Comments. ....

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Maryland District 1 Congressional candidates speak

Herald Mail 31 May 2020

Now each home needs broadband, and they also need a renewable source of energy ... We need to fully fund the Highway Trust Fund, expand the public transportation system, invest in green technologies, and continue to fight for rural broadband services. We need broadband for new businesses to grow here....

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Letter: Education funding cuts will worsen situation

The Berkshire Eagle 30 May 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered the landscape for public education in just about every way. It has further exacerbated the inequities in our society, from access to technology and broadband in rural areas to the assurance of essential nutrition for underserved populations....

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Clarence Fanto: Textbook case of many questions, few answers for students amid virus

The Berkshire Eagle 30 May 2020

Instead, let's try to figure out how to navigate the months ahead for our students in the county's public schools ... Good luck with that, since we have a make-believe secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, who appears to disdain public education....

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National View: COVID-19 crisis has exposed the gaps in our broadband infrastructure

Duluth News Tribune 29 May 2020

In many ways, we are fortunate that our broadband infrastructure — among the world’s most affordable and accessible — doesn’t rely on the vicissitudes of politics and government funding the way our public health system has ... While high-speed broadband is available to about 95% of ......

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Coronavirus and the Telecom Crisis

CounterPunch 29 May 2020

This debate over the role of social services, whether private or public, defines other activities including housing and food, water, electricity and even roadways and telecommunications ... And yet, as has occurred numerous times, the logic of the market – while beneficial for a select few — has failed the public at large....

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Lawmaker's View: Broadband investments necessary during, after COVID-19

Duluth News Tribune 29 May 2020

This legislative session, I worked with a broad coalition of local governments, businesses, civic groups, internet service providers, and other stakeholders to close gaps in high-speed broadband coverage across Minnesota ... One of these pieces is a robust package of broadband investments ... BROADBAND ... RURAL BROADBAND....

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7 Democrats face primary for Lifton’s seat

Cortland Standard 29 May 2020

Harbin, who works in information technology, also touted the necessity of rural broadband, which he said needed to be run like a public utility ... its own fiber-optic broadband service, which will be run as a public utility — on track to become the first of its kind in the state....