🦾 Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks To Local Governments
"Tired of being underserved and overbilled by shitty regional broadband monopolies, back in 2002 a coalition of local Utah governments formed UTOPIA — (the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency). The inter-local agency collaborative venture then set about building an “open access” fiber network that allows any ISP to then come and compete on the shared network."
Having started in Europe, #eduroam - the secure, world-wide roaming access service developed for the international #research & #education community - is now available in 104 territories worldwide and emerging pilot locations!
🛰️ There Appears to Be a Huge Problem With SpaceX's Starlink | Futurism
「 Despite eclipsing the total number of all operating satellites in Earth's orbit, Starlink isn't just struggling to cut even. Experts are concerned that trying to provide the entire globe with internet via satellites — instead of expanding coverage with cell towers where needed — could prove difficult, with speeds already beginning to decrease in 2022 」
Die Basisstation wollten @inviridi und ich heute eigentlich am Stand von Vodafone mal ansehen bzw genauer nachfragen. Leider hatten die Mitarbeiter den Stand schon fast abgebaut und waren nicht mehr anwesend. Schade!
Wir werden dem aber sicherlich weiter nachgehen. Sehr spannend!
MARWAN, the #Moroccan#Research & #Education#Network, recently welcomed a significant #connectivity upgrade from Rabat to London, where it peers with the GÉANT network with onward traffic to other R&E networks around the world.
🚮 Modern web bloat means some pages load 21MB of data - entry-level phones can't run some simple web pages, and some sites are harder to render than PUBG
"Despite its compact size, the Pulse 14 Gen3 isn't lacking #connectivity options, (...). This means you likely won't need to carry an adapter with you in everyday use." - Notebookcheck
Meanwhile, it looks like the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) is sadly coming to a end, which means your internet bills are going to go up significantly over the coming months (most likely by the May billing cycle) due to the continued stale mate in Congress as I and a lot of folks new that this was going to happen. It's going to take a miracle at this point. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/fcc-to-halt-sign-ups-for-internet-discounts-as-republicans-threaten-funding/
Prof. Symeon Chatzinotas is conducting #research aiming at designing, emulating and testing new high-performance systems for the future of #mobile and satellite communications📡. #5g
About 4 years ago I was struggling to get 12Mbit/s ADSL. Now we have gigabit fibre and oh my word am I using it tonight.
One browser is uploading a 50GiB video to YT while another browser uploads the 20GiB equivalent to FB. The same wee macbook air is also rendering artwork for a future video thumbnail with Stable Diffusion as well. And another workstation is downloading Arch linux updates at 5-10MiB/s.
Cloudflare Japan has been mixing it up with CIOs and IT leaders this week at the Gartner Symposium in Tokyo. Thanks to all who came to visit us and talk about #connectivity cloud. See you all again soon.