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A few week ago, Tesla Motor’s space division, SpaceX, unveiled plans to blanket the globe in internet access provided by 4,425 satellites at low-orbit. The company’s CEO, Elon Musk, will work with the U.S. government and private investors, including Google, to provide satellite internet service for residential, commercial, institutional, and government use. SpaceX has already…
Despite the pastoral vision of farmers many city people hold, agriculture has always been a dynamic, innovative industry. Luddites work with age-old agricultural techniques – like, for example, altering the genome of a crop gradually by taking seeds from only the best specimens for replanting – that constantly push the field of agriculture forward. While…
Like dial-up, AT&T’s new project – AirGig – transmits internet over phone lines, but that’s about where the similarities between dial-up and AirGig stop. AirGig is a new, experimental technology that transmits short range mobile broadband signals from telephone pole to telephone pole. It’s wireless and much faster than dial-up, which is why AT&T has…
Oh yes, A T-1 Internet is a dance you must get budgeted for. It is Pricey. It will literally solve all of your connectivity issues in term of VoIP, VPN and video conferencing and oh, you can also add video gaming and video streaming to the fun part. Talk about killing all your birds with…
At this year’s Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Data Communications (SIGCOMM) conference, MIT introduced a paper, titled “Real-time Distributed MIMO Systems,” that shows how researchers at the university tripled Wi-Fi speeds and doubled range in a crowded room. The Real Issue When many people are connected to the same wireless network in,…
Sometimes, it seems like emerging technology can make (virtually) anything out of (virtually) nothing. In the last two decades, internet giants like Google have built their empires from the ground up, pioneering products in industries that were nonexistent in the mid-nineties. Despite the seeming limitlessness of emerging technology, there are always physical limits on the…
Today, far too many rural properties are too far from the local hub to support a cable or DSL connection. While rural broadband initiatives are working to lay fiber lines that support fast, cheap cable connections, these initiatives are, unfortunately, sporadic and slow to implement. In the meantime, those who live off the cable internet…
On July 11, twenty-eight senators, including Senator Angus King of Maine, urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to renew its commitment to rural broadband expansion with new funding. The group submitted a letter to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler emphasizing the positive connection between reliable rural broadband and growth in the rural agriculture industry. “Mobility is…
The Minnesota Office of Broadband Expansion has renewed and expanded its efforts to increase internet access in rural areas with $35 million in new grants for the state’s current internet providers (small, medium, and large). The state hopes these grants will encourage Minnesota’s providers to expand their service to low-income andrural Minnesotans. Minnesota, one of…
While many young urbanites are glued to their smartphones day and night, 15% of Americans still do not use the internet, ever. In rural Limited areas, where internet options are already limited, the number is even higher; nearly one in four rural Americans do not use the internet. According to a 2015 Pew study, demographics…
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