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The problem with broadband projects in general

Before Covid I tried to attend as many meetings community leaders and towns had about bringing broadband to their communities. This is what you are supposed to in order to let the leaders know you, or in my case, my clients are there, right? Sometimes I would attend to provide my input as part of giving back to a community. I have found some similarities in these meetings and workshops. Let’s go over them. If you are a community leader don’t let yourself...

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WIFI calling port forwarding

Recently I came across a need to do some port forwarding for wifi calling. I have assembled a resource guide to help you if you need to do such things. IPSEC should be allowed per RFC 5996 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5996 for all wifi calling Verizonhttps://community.verizonwireless.com/t5/Verizon-Wireless-Services/What-are-the-wifi-calling-firewall-ports-and-destination-IP/td-p/1080659UDP ports 500 and 4500 open to sg.vzwfemto.com and wo.vzwwo.com TMobilehttps://www.t-mobile.com/support/coverage/wi-fi-calling-on-a-corporate-networkIPv4 Address Block: 208.54.0.0/17 and 66.94.0.0/19:UDP Ports 500 and 45005061 for SIP/TLSTCP port 443 and 993Also whitelist the CRL server for DIGITS OTT and WFC 1.0: crl.t-mobile.com 206.29.177.36 AT&Thttps://www.att.com/support/article/wireless/KM1114459/UDP Ports 500 and 4500TCP...

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Underground boxes for wireless deployments

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j2 Briefing: FCC news, Microsoft whitespace, polls

The j2 Podcast for August 29, 2019 Microsoft is pushing it’s Whitespace product as a solution to the Digital divide. This has been branded “Airband” https://www.multichannel.com/news/microsoft-brands-rural-divide-national-crisis The FCC The commission unanimously voted to distribute more than $20 billion of Universal Service Fund subsidies over the next decade as part of the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund. It also adopted a long-awaited proposal to get more detailed information from broadband providers about where they offer service in order to improve the agency’s coverage maps.  <let’s...

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