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Smart City Expo Draws Broad Audience Trading Tips on Making Cities Smarter
Mon, July 22, 2019
Cross-posted from the NTIA website. How can a smart city improve communities? At the recent Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) Expo , city officials across the country dug into this challenge. The three-day meeting welcomed shared stories about smart city projects that are helping...
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Final Tests Completed on 3.5 GHz Spectrum Sharing Model
Fri, July 19, 2019
by Keith Gremban, Director of the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences Cross-posted with NTIA On Thursday, NTIA’s Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS) released final test reports to commercial entities that participated in spectrum sharing testing on a model that would...
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New Computer and Internet Use Data Can Sharpen Broadband Plans
Tue, February 19, 2019
As the importance of broadband connectivity continues to grow for economic development, state and local or regional planning commissions, such as the Northwest Pennsylvania Regional Planning and Development Commission , are including broadband in their planning. The federal government...
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American Broadband Initiative to Expand Connectivity for all Americans
Wed, February 13, 2019
by David Redl, Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator Expanding America’s broadband connectivity is critical to our nation’s economy, and a top priority for President Trump and the Department of Commerce. Today, we join with our partners in...
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Building a Stronger America: Rural Infrastructure for the 21st Century
Wed, February 13, 2019
Cross-posted from the White House. We have to make sure American farmers and their families, wherever they may be, wherever they may go, have the infrastructure projects that they need to compete and grow. President Donald J. Trump BUILDING STRONGER RURAL COMMUNITIES: President Donald J....
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Closing the Rural Broadband Gap
Fri, December 14, 2018
By Douglas Kinkoph, Associate Administrator Office of Telecommunications and Information Applications NTIA has a long history of working to close the digital divide. Unfortunately, there are still nearly 25 million Americans still lack access to broadband connectivity and of those, 19...
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Case Studies in Public-Private Partnership Driving Broadband Deployment
Mon, December 03, 2018
Many small communities across the country struggle to bring advanced broadband to their residents. What they lack in size, they often make up with diversity of their economies, populations, geography, and technology providers. Public-private partnerships (PPP) can help local government...
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Five Digital Inclusion Trends in the United States
Thu, October 18, 2018
by Doug Kinkoph, Associate Administrator, Office of Telecommunications and Information Applications This week, NTIA recognizes International Digital Inclusion Week . Digital inclusion is more than a social program giving people access to computing and information technology; it is now an...
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Will Seniors be Early Adopters for the Internet of Things?
Tue, October 02, 2018
If the Internet of Things (IoT) conjures images of the Jetsons and self-driving cars, think again. At the NTCA Rural Broadband Association 2018 Fall Conference , Curtis Strole, Executive Director, Customer Relations, NeoNova , talked about how he uses IoT devices as a better way to help his...
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NTIA Helps Facilitate Smart Ag and Rural Workshop
Wed, September 19, 2018
On September 6 and 7, NTIA and BroadbandUSA participated in a workshop that focused on deploying rural broadband and using technology in agriculture (also known as “smart ag”) at Purdue University, Indiana. Participants shared ideas for wireless test beds for smart ag and rural...
