Light Reading Weekly #18
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With losses mounting, HK Cable TV shuts down after 30 years
Hong Kong Cable TV, which began operating in 1993, said it will terminate service on May 31. Its 12-year licence expires in 2029. The HK government accepted the request to return the licence, saying it was a commercial decision.
The Divide: How broadband barriers are impacting civil society orgs
This episode features Christopher Worman, co-founder of the digital equity nonprofit fund?Connect Humanity ; as well as Catalina Escobar, co-founder of?Makaia , a nonprofit based in Colombia that helps provide digital skills and other resources for social development.
Ting's take on BEAD and fiber investments for economic development
Amol S. Naik, SVP of public policy and community engagement for Ting Internet at Tucows, joins the podcast to discuss how fiber infrastructure is shaping economic development in Ting's service areas. Naik also provides an update on Ting's role as the anchor tenant for an?open access broadband network ?in Colorado Springs and shares his forecast for how the rollout of BEAD funding will go.
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Dish Network may test phone-to-satellite services through Omnispace
Omnispace recently?filed documents with the FCC ?that appear to indicate it wants to test phone-to-satellite communications in spectrum owned in part by Dish Network. However, the filings don't provide much detail, and a Dish official declined to comment.
AT&T taps into Frontier's fiber for 5G backhaul
AT&T and Frontier Communications have forged a new, expanded deal that will tie together each company's wireless and wired infrastructure and provide AT&T more fiber connectivity to help backhaul its 5G network.
Mavenir adds Cohere turbocharge to its growing open RAN lineup
Turbocharge thousands of radios that already dot the land and an operator might not have to invest in expensive new equipment (or at least not invest as much).?Well covered in this publication ?of late, Cohere Technologies claims to have the turbocharging software, and its tests with operators have shown promising results. But it's lacked deals with the radio developers themselves.