The upstate New York city is now offering free, high-speed and secure Internet service for hundreds of low-income residents. The city used $3.5 million in federal funding to develop the wireless network in many of the city’s least connected areas.
When his Internet service started approaching $100 per month, Ronnie Jones had to cut it out of his budget.
Read more: US: New York: Syracuse Launches Free Broadband Service
- Can Fractal and Integrated Roadways enable smart roads that will replace the need for on-building smart city technology?
Fractal and Integrated Roadways are enabling smart roads that can host and hide antennas’ wireless connectivity for vehicles, devices and the surrounding area.
Fractal Antenna Systems (Fractal) and Integrated Roadways have joined forces to deploy the first generation of digital transportation infrastructure that claims to enable smart roads that will replace the need for on-building smart city technology.
Read more: US: Kansas: Lenexa: Can smart roads replace “on-building” smart city technology?
The Kiowa Tribe and the mayor’s office for the City of Pharr met Wednesday to discuss Hobart and options on how to supply the city with broadband service.
The tribe is hoping to help by making the small town of Hobart a “Smart City”.
Cynthia Garza Reyes, the Director of External Relations for the City of Pharr, talked to those in attendance about what this new plan could do.
The cities of Charlotte and West Palm Beach and The Underline in Miami are the latest participants to trial an open-source communication standard created to increase transparency, legibility and accountability of digital technology in public places.
Thanks to an investment from the John S and James L Knight Foundation, the cities have been selected to participate in the Knight Community Digital Trust for Places and Routines Programme.
Read more: US: Cities selected for DTPR digital trust open source pilot
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland on Tuesday unveiled a program that could create affordable broadband internet access for thousands of Memphians currently living without it.
The plan, according to an ordinance, would partner the city with a private telecommunications company to install fiber optic cables to at least 6,000 properties — both residential and commercial — in Memphis.