j2 Podcast: Network cabling, WISPER gets funding

j2 Podcast: Network cabling, WISPER gets funding

 

Comcast launches wifi6 routers
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200106005958/en/Comcast-Launches-Powerful-Internet-Device-Capable-Multi-Gigabit

Want some good geek reading?

Cable Labeling Best Practices
by u/zanacks in networking

Funding
The folks over at WISPER have some good news coming their way
https://www.telecompetitor.com/fcc-ready-to-authorize-caf-ii-rural-broadband-funding-for-hughes-wisper-isp-three-others/

USDA to Make 550 Million available in 2020
https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2019/12/12/usda-make-550-million-funding-available-2020-deploy-high-speed

<Your competitors are probably applying for funding, so you should to.  Lean on your local economic development folks on help in writing proposals and such.>

Mobile Users double since 2013
The percentage of respondents who said their primary online access devices is mobile has effectively doubled since 2013, and many of those are using mobile as a substitute, rather than a complement, to wired broadband service.
https://www.multichannel.com/news/pew-mobile-broadband-users-double-since-2013

 

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