Packets Down Range #15: Data Center builds, broadband funding continues, e-mail
Lots of things happening in the news this week. For the first time in a while, I have enough content for the Patreon edition. I am also starting a new thing. If you have a notable photo you would like …
j2 Podcast: Network cabling, WISPER gets funding
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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 byu/zanacks innetworking 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 …
Podcast: John, Ivan and I talk WISP finances
I sit down with John Scrivner from LiveOak Bank and Ivan Crowe from Ritalia funding and discuss topics related to WISP funding. We talk about leasing, lending and the pitfalls WISPs run into when it comes to financing. John Scrivner …
j2 Briefing: FCC news, Microsoft whitespace, polls
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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 …
NTIA launches Funding web-site
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration released a searchable database of 50 federal broadband programs. They span a dozen federal agencies with billions of dollars for broadband grants, loans and other resources. Participating federal agencies helped create the database. It …
xISP news From Washington
https://www.techspot.com/news/79863-fcc-promises-roll-out-improved-broadband-over-106000.html Back in January of 2018, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced a proposal that could have allocated over $500 million toward the development of rural broadband internet lines. At the time, Pai said that closing the “digital divide” between rural …
Updated CAF Interactive map
Interactive Rural Broadband CAF Map Updated