We’ve moved past signal flags, but maritime communications still lag behind the wireless technologies available on the mainland. In the ever-innovating tech industry, however, where there is lack, there is potential. Last month, Bill Gates-backed metamaterials surface antenna technology (M-SAT) innovator Kymeta Corp. successfully tested a unique satellite antenna that is a fraction of the…

  The Chinese government pledged more than 140 billion yuan ($22.05 billion) to a series of rural broadband expansion projects. These projects will fill holes in the country’s Swiss cheese-like rural coverage, improve service for rural users who already have coverage, and expand e-commerce. By 2020, the government estimates that these funds will connect an…

Subscribers on any of Verizon’s unlimited 3G plans now have truly unlimited Internet. In a recent website update, the carrier revealed that it stopped throttling 3G accounts back in June. Throttling, the practice of slowing down users’ speeds once they reach an arbitrary data limit, affected 5% of the carrier’s unlimited 3G subscribers [1]. None…

Chinese telecom provider Huawei has been making 5G headlines before anyone else. Back in 2014, the provider accepted a bold partnership with Russian provider MegaFon to build a 5G network for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. Then, in October of this year, it announced that field tests of its 5G technology had exceeded…

When it comes to accessing the Web from a remote location, people tend to think in terms of limits instead of in terms of options. While it’s true that rural users are often too far from a local loop to qualify for cable or DSL, there are actually multiple other ways to sign online from…

After three years of operating without a revenue stream, mobile app Snapchat is making a powerful play for advertisers’ attention. In late June, Snapchat launched an official website dedicating to informing and attracting future advertisers. Less than a week later, the company’s CEO Evan Speigel pushed Snapchat’s advertising potential to a group of 6,000 advertising…