The evolution of work at home continues with the introduction of the Comcast Business Teleworker VPN. Comcast is partnering with Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, for the VPN platform. The COVID-19 pandemic has quickly restructured how people work. The…
15 October 2020 — Espoo, Finland – Nokia today announced an automated, zero-touch elevated temperature detection solution designed to help spot potential COVID-19 infections in facilities with thousands of people. The Nokia Automated Analytics Solution for Access Control streamlines and…
Comcast yesterday announced the Comcast RISE program that will offer grants, marketing and technology upgrades to small businesses. The company said the Comcast RISE initiative was prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has taken a particularly hard toll on small…
With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations rising, consumers are willing to share smartphone data for contact tracing purposes if privacy protections are offered, according to a new smartphone contract tracing report from Parks Associates. However, the willingness to provide the smartphone…
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau and the National Exchange Carrier Association (NECA) have taken steps aimed at enabling rural carriers to offer discounts on broadband connections for low-income families with school age children at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic…
Cox said yesterday that it will allocate $60 million over the next year toward closing what the company calls the “digital learning gap.” The company’s CEO Pat Esser made the announcement on a webcast with media, where several other participants,…
September 24, 2020 — SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) today launched the new GigaSpire® BLAST u4, which gives communications service providers (CSPs) an exciting new option to deliver the ultimate Wi-Fi experience, with flexible, plug-and-play deployment. With the introduction of…
Daily traffic on the AT&T Global Network is more than 391.8 petabytes, an increase of almost 20% compared to the average on a typical day before COVID-19, the carrier said in an update on AT&T COVID-19 traffic and the company’s…
The EducationSuperHighway (ESH) and NCTA — the Internet & Television Association, have teamed up on a new initiative – the K-12 Bridge to Broadband — designed to help boost home connectivity solutions for students whose schooling will be comprised of…
T-Mobile Project 10Million, launched today, aims to close the education gap as students embark on a school year that in many cases will involve at least some at-home learning. The COVID-19 pandemic is driving T-Mobile’s $10.7 billion investment in Project…
The enterprise WLAN market in the United States declined by 9.5% year over year as the COVID-19 pandemic closed businesses and slowed investments, according to IDC’s Worldwide 2Q 2020 Wireless LAN Tracker. That decline was largely offset by consumer WLAN…
Tennessee has allocated an additional $61 million for broadband. The Tennessee broadband funding is an emergency program to improve service during the COVID-19 pandemic by providing grants to service providers. The grants, which were announced by the governor’s office and…