The FCC will allocate $300 million in a second round of Connect America Phase I incremental funding to further leverage private investment in rural America. The funding is available to carriers who will have an opportunity to deploy into newly eligible areas. The FCC also adopted a process to challenge the eligibility of particular census [...]
Today Google announced they’re buying a quantum computer from D-Wave Systems. NASA’s Ames Research Center will host the computer at the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, which will house the machine. The Universities Space Research Association (USRA) will invite researchers from around the world to share time on it. Their stated goal is to study how [...]
Gladstone, Missouri is the next city to get Google Fiber. Google announced Fiber would be coming to the nearby town of Shawnee, Kansas on May 3rd, and now has Sprint’s headquarters in Overland Park virually surrounded. Google also added Austin, Texas and Provo, Utah, to its Fiber-enabled communities in the past two months. Will they [...]
Google has recently announced fiber plans for Provo, UT and Austin, TX. Now Google is extending its reach near Kansas City, their original fiberized city, notes Engadget. The city council of Shawnee, KS has voted to bring in Google’s 1Gbps internet / TV service, although Google hasn’t put a timetable on the rollout yet. The [...]
Google is taking over the troubled iProvo network to provide fiber optic service to residents of Provo Utah, the third city where Google is providing fiber connectivity after Kansas City and Austin. If the deal is approved, nearly every one of Provo’s 115,000 residents could soon have free Internet access in their homes for at [...]
The US Department of Justice has called on the FCC to more aggressively regulate the amount of 600 MHz spectrum that AT&T and Verizon can own. William J. Baer, the assistant attorney general who oversees the antitrust division, told a Senate subcommittee (pdf) that limits were needed to promote competition in the market for wireless [...]
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