Municipal broadband | 5G and Fibre

Eight months after their $300 million investment

U.S. wireless providers are trumpeting the virtues of their soon-to-be-unveiled 5G networks, but in Canada, the Big Three telecoms are sitting back and staying silent for now.

Project to connect 1000 sites.

ADELAIDE CBD and North Adelaide ratepayers will be contributing millions to help fund a new high-speed fibre network roll out to commercial buildings under a plan approved by the city council on Tuesday night.

Health guidelines concerning the allowable level of radio frequency (RF) radiation emitted by cellular towers in Toronto will remain in place despite

Cities are filling up with sensors which in turn means a lot of data to be analysed. What does that mean for citizens and their privacy?

Imagine driving through a big city in which sensors switch red lights to green so you are never needlessly stuck at an empty cross street waiting for a signal change. Or imagine working remotely at Internet speeds exponentially faster than today’s wireless networks can offer. Sounds nice, doesn’t it

Thirteen northeastern mayors are taking Verizon to task for its lackluster approach to building out FiOS, including mayors from New York, Pittsburgh, and Newark, as well as the democratic candidate...

Impressive, but creepy. 😐

"You put 10 poles in a block in front of people’s houses -- it’s just a forest of unnecessary poles."

The report, authored by San Franciscans for Municipal Fiber, argues that to properly address the digital divide and provide affordable, equitable Internet access, the city must begin building its own fiber network.

Street lighting has always been a form of social control. As ‘smart’ lamp-posts start to adapt to our needs, are we entering a brave new world of big city lights?

Network cost could double as operators strive to meet demand for increased capacity and deploy 5G. How can they maintain their profits?

The wires attached to hydro poles not only provide electricity, but they deliver phone, internet and cable services. Those providers pay a fee to hydro companies to attach their wiring on the poles. The Ontario Energy Board wants to increase that fee after requests from hydro companies, like Hydro One.

Interest and demand for gigabit broadband is on the rise with more than a hundred known deployments worldwide. But while the spotlight has mostly shone on North America over the past year, there is growing activity in Europe too.To answer the question of who deploys gigabit broadband and why, Broadbandtrends recently interviewed 88 broadband operators around the world about their plans for providing and deploying gigabit broadband services. Gigabit services were defined as at least 1Gb/s in one or both directions – download or upload.

The next generation of mobile technology, 5G, is beginning to take shape. Here's what it's trying to accomplish and how. And, why 5G could be the last standard we ever need.

How Local Governments Can Provide Network Neutrality, Privacy, and Access for All

5G is just a marketing term. The connectivity we crave — cheap, fast, ubiquitous — won’t happen without more fiber in the ground.

Telangana is doing the unprecedented in India: bringing broadband to every home.

A huge step forward towards actual 5G networks

By Glen Martin If the modern city is a symbol for randomness — even chaos — the city of the near future is shaping up along opposite metaphorical lines. The urban environment is evolving rapidly, and a model is emerging that is more efficient, more functional, more — connected, in a [...]

With 300,000 antennas to install in three years, wireless companies, cities, and the feds are bound to clash over where to put them.

The Digital Strategy aims to foster Calgary’s digital economy and improve digital access to The City’s services.

Cities across the country have long emphasized the importance to the local economy of creating innovation hubs. There are different roads toward that goal, however, as shown by competing submissions from the mayors of Toronto and Calgary in a high-stakes battle over the future of broadband Internet services. Toronto mayor John Tory and Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson sided with large telecom companies, while Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi emphasized the importance of open networks and more robust competition. My weekly technology law column (Toronto Star version, homepage version) notes that the subm...

Governor Jerry Brown of California recently vetoed a bill, SB 649, that would have given wireless carriers cheap and easy access to poles. He said the bill was too much in the favor of the wireless…