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Stimulus Funding Begins to Roll Out

“One key to strengthening education, entrepreneurship, and innovation in communities.is to harness the full power of the Internet, and that means faster and more widely available broadband,” said President Barack Obama on September 21, 2009. It’s great to see this vision continuing to move forward with great momentum. Yesterday, Vice President Joe Biden… Continue

Added by Jeff Thompson on December 18, 2009 at 3:31pm — 2 Comments

A Streamlined Stimulus

Yesterday, the government announced that the broadband stimulus process would be shortened to two rounds of funding rather than the initially planned three. According to a WSJ article by Amy Schatz, this was a “response to criticism from applicants and lawmakers that the program isn’t getting money out qui… Continue

Added by Jeff Thompson on November 11, 2009 at 11:02am — 2 Comments

FCC pledges to "unleash" 4G mobile broadband spectrum, TG Daily

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has pledged to "unleash the spectrum" for 4G mobile broadband. According to Genachowski, the next generation of mobile technology will "make all the difference." "More and more I hear people say that broadband is the future of mobile, and I agree. I also believe the reverse is true - mobile is essential to the future of broadband. And the next generation of mobile technology - 4G - will make all the difference," said Genachowski. "4G will provide mobile connectiv… Continue

Added by Kobe Wadsworth on October 7, 2009 at 10:59pm — 3 Comments

In My Next 40 Years…

I wanted to start off today’s post by thanking the organizers of last week’s 4GWE event. I enjoyed giving a keynote about the broadband stimulus and its many elements, from the rules and regulations to the recent submission process. The event was a tremendous success and I am looking forward to the January event in Miami (and not just so I can get away from the Rhode Island winter!) This weekend, I read an… Continue

Added by Jeff Thompson on September 8, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Towerstream and the Broadband Stimulus

As many of you may know, the deadline for broadband stimulus applications was last Thursday, August 20. You may also be aware that Towerstream has officially applied for the program. What’s our goal? As I’ve mentioned in… Continue

Added by Jeff Thompson on August 25, 2009 at 2:29pm — 2 Comments

T-mobile in largest field trial with LTE

T-mobile has announced the largest field trial in Europe, with 60 radio heads. Testing LTE. Here is the link to the press release, from unstrung. http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=180831&f_src=unstrung_sitedefault Continue

Added by Kobe Wadsworth on August 25, 2009 at 10:00am — 3 Comments

Vacation, Time to Get Away - But not from your Internet!

I read a recent GigaOM post today by Om Malik about connectivity to work during summer vacations. The post was in response to a recent survey by LogMeIn (via LinkedIn… Continue

Added by Jeff Thompson on August 5, 2009 at 9:36am — 5 Comments

Broadband (or lack thereof!) in the Big Apple

I’m back in Rhode Island today after a very productive couple of days in NYC. As you might expect, top of my agenda for the NY trip was the broadband stimulus. During my visit, I spent some time with NYC Council Member, Gail Brewer, who, as I noted in… Continue

Added by Jeff Thompson on July 31, 2009 at 8:47am — 1 Comment

An NTIA Workshop

As Towerstream continues to evaluate the broadband stimulus and its application process, I decided to attend one of the NTIA’s workshops last week to get the latest information, straight from the source. The organization has actually been hosting these workshops across the country in the past few weeks to ensure that the application process is… Continue

Added by Jeff Thompson on July 29, 2009 at 9:02pm — 1 Comment

The Broadband Stimulus Marches On

It’s been a busy few days in the broadband world. As many of you probably know, the Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for the broadband stimulus program was announced last week, outlining the rules for both the Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP) and the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP). The massive NOFA document is 120+ pages – clearly far too long… Continue

Added by Jeff Thompson on July 6, 2009 at 5:30pm — 2 Comments

Alvarion gets $100 Million contract with Open Range- not with Clearwire (as rumored)

Alvarion® and Open Range Sign a Multi-Year Contract for Equipment and Services Expected at Over $100 Million for 4G Network Across 17 States This will be the nation’s largest Rural Utilities Service (RUS) funded deployment spanning 17 states, 546 rural communities, and reaching up to 6 million people. With this new broadband wireless network, Open Range will begin offering state-of-the-art 4G services to un-served and underserved customers across rural America in the fourth quarter of this year… Continue

Added by Alan J Weissberger on June 17, 2009 at 9:30am — 3 Comments

Go Go Moto

This week, Motorola announced plans to sell wireless broadband modules that can be used in consumer electronics to provide wireless broadband connectivity. These devices will include everything from laptops and netbooks to mp3 players and d… Continue

Added by Jeff Thompson on June 4, 2009 at 4:57pm — 1 Comment

Georgians Bridge the Broadband Gap

Earlier this week, I posted a few thoughts on how the broadband gap isn’t isolated to rural areas of the U.S., but affects urban areas too. I took that as an opportunity to encourage local governments and community groups to band together to tackle the issue themselves, in conjunction with the federal government’s broadband stimul… Continue

Added by Jeff Thompson on May 1, 2009 at 3:05pm — No Comments

Mind the (Broadband) Gap

The broadband stimulus has lead to a lot of talk recently about the rural areas across the country that lack broadband coverage. In fact, just last week, an article in the Tennessean reviewed broadband grievances from consumers and business owners a like. The article noted, “In many counties, the pu… Continue

Added by Jeff Thompson on April 27, 2009 at 10:10am — 4 Comments

The Trouble with Wires

Late last week, a group of hooligans in California cut fiber optic lines in two locations near Silicon Valley. As a result, thousands of business and consumer customers of AT&T, Verizon and Sprint were without service. According to an IDG News article by Stephen Lawson, the outa… Continue

Added by Jeff Thompson on April 16, 2009 at 1:00pm — 1 Comment

Billions in broadband stimulus funds are dependent on definitions: What is broadband? Underserved area? Unserved area?

The FCC has not yet defined several key terms that are needed to be understood by the government officials doling out broadband stimulus money. At the request of lawmakers and lobbying groups, the FCC is (at long last) in the process of defining "broadband," "underserved," "unserved area" and other terms. The FCC is advising the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), which will make the final call on how stimulus money gets allocated to companies building out broadban… Continue

Added by Alan J Weissberger on April 6, 2009 at 5:00pm — 4 Comments

U.S. Stimulus Package may benefit rural telcos, but licensed spectrum still the key issue for WiMAX deployment

The U.S. stimulus package will award $7.2 billion for broadband, much of that ear marked for small rural telephone companies and WISPs. We understand that a bit more than a third of the money will be administered through the Rural Utilities Service (RUS), which has until Sept. 30 of this year to make awards. While rural telcos are not the only companies eligible to receive RUS money, they may be best positioned to receive it because many of them are already familiar with the grant/approval proc… Continue

Added by Alan J Weissberger on February 25, 2009 at 7:00pm — 2 Comments

City's and broadband

Do city's know they don't need money to deploy wireless broadband. Quick math what are your data cost per mo. now what are your wired phones per mo. Total those numbers. If it's a huge city, they may be spending 200.000 a mo. If you take there existing infrastructure, public safety towers, there's a savings.I would be willing to bet I could find a way to cut that number in half to 100.000 a month. Now city's can you stand a savings of 1.2 mil a year. And that's how you cant afford not to deploy… Continue

Added by Kobe Wadsworth on February 23, 2009 at 6:00pm — 5 Comments

Sling Broadband Selected as Official Internet Service Provider For City of Hollywood Wi-Fi

HOLLYWOOD, FL – (January 20, 2009) – Sling Broadband, LLC One of the nation’s largest Wimax broadband network operators announced today that it has been selected as provider of wireless broadband internet service by The City of Hollywood, Florida. Hollywood a city in Broward County, Florida, Characterized by quaint sidewalk cafés, brick lined walks and unique boutiques, shops, art galleries and dozens of excellent restaurants. The pedestrian-friendly environment is the perfect place to enjoy So… Continue

Added by Addiel Lopez on February 19, 2009 at 6:08pm — 5 Comments

Ubiquiti innovation, and there 39 usd radio

I see this company going out front with there innovative, and inexpensive products, like there 2.4 5.8 bullet , the smallest radio I've found. It comes in 100mw and 1000 mw, its 3 inches long. For a company that's only been around since 2005 they are on the page with simplistic products. If they decide to start making there bullet in the 900MHz or 3.65 GHz ouch for the other equipment makers. For it would problebly only cost hundreds instead of thousands of dollars. There 2.4 5.8 hp bullets are… Continue

Added by Kobe Wadsworth on December 24, 2008 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment