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by Avior Abu in the Calcalist. Quietly, under the cover of our political chaos, an interdepartmental committee is trying to overthrow the right of a municipality to decide where a cell phone antenna will be erected in its jurisdiction. Their reasons being that while we want our cellphone, we don’t want to see their base stations or antennas in our backyard, even as we complain about poor coverage and slow data speeds. In this age of Corona, improved coverage sounds a good thing …. or is it? Will such a power be abused at industry’s whim? During the early 2000 the cellphone companies in Israel routinely exploited a looph
EducationSuperHighway Report Outlines Plans to Tackle K-12 Home Connectivity Crisis
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National non-profit will focus on building public-private partnerships to connect over ten million students who lack home broadband. SAN FRANCISCO, CA (PRWEB) December 14, 2020 The national non-profit that successfully closed the classroom connectivity gap has announced it is delaying its planned sunset to connect students who lack home broadband. EducationSuperHighway will provide states and school districts with the tools they need to address home connectivity disparities that disproportionately impact students of color and those in high-poverty and rural communities across the United States.
In April, EducationSuperHighway pivoted resources to its Digital Bridge K-12 (https://digitalbridgek12.org) project when the pandemic hit. To date, that initiative has helped over 800 school districts in 41 states identify a
RDOF Analysis Reveals Surprises and Growing Controversy Posted on Share
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Now that the dust has settled a bit, it’s time to do some RDOF analysis. And there is no shortage of things to analyze.
RDOF is a historic shift in public policy for rural broadband. What was once the funding domain for a handful of large telcos to bring comparable telecom service to rural markets, has now become a battleground of sorts for very small upstarts to very large tech celebrities (I’m talking about you Elon).
Let’s start this RDOF analysis with some important facts: