Two years ago, Google first announced its plans to bring high-speed Internet access to the lucky people of Kansas City. Earlier this month, Google announced the expansion of this service to Austin, Texas, making it the next fiber city. Austin, a mecca for creativity and the entrepreneurial spirit, has earned the reputation for being a good…
On March 11, 2011, a major earthquake and tsunami hit Japan. The tsunami disabled Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant just 150 miles north of Tokyo. While much of the world was worrying about Fukushima, there was another, less obvious problem under the ocean – the submarine cables lying along the ocean floor…
Over the last few weeks, AT&T crews have blocked off Anderson Circle in downtown St. Augustine so that they could stretch a long fiber optic cable under the Matanzas River to Anastasia Island. This fiber optic cable installation project involved drilling under the bottom lands of the Matanzas River to Anastasia Island…
Word is getting out about Seattle and the city’s plans to add surveillance cameras to the port area to better enforce security along their shoreline. The Port of Seattle is the sixth busiest seaport/terminal in the United States. With this being the case, local officials have realized the need for the port to be equipped with adequate prevention, protection…
Fatbeam, a fiber provider that focuses primarily on under-served market areas in the Western US, recently struck a deal with EMAN Networks to acquire their existing fiber assets. This acquisition will give Fatbeam 25 miles of metro fiber network in Tacoma. Most of EMAN Networks’ infrastructure, which Fatbeam has now acquired, focused on providing fiber networks…
Alpharetta, Georgia, a northern suburb of Atlanta, holds high potential for becoming the Technology City of the Southeast. Recently, the Alpharetta Technology Commission analyzed the city’s existing infrastructure, learning its strengths and weaknesses, to gauge what needs to be done in order to keep Alpharetta…
Today, only a few US cities, such as Kansas City, can boast of high-speed fiber optic connections. However, it’s not this way in China. According to a recent China Daily report, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in China has required all newly built homes to install fiber optic connections “where a public fiber optic telecom network is available”.
The Institute for Local Self-Reliance has recently released a map that they compiled of the United States, showing all of the communities throughout the country that own access to the Internet. These communities, about 340 of them in all, receive Internet just like they get their electric utility – straight from the city.
Most telecommunications companies don’t have the deep pockets they used to have ten years ago. And, with the telecommunications industry constantly changing and gaining momentum, telcos are realizing that unless they want to be forced to innovate and change, they must drive their own growth by developing a long term focus.