GIGABIT 101 WORKSHOP
By: Christa Wagner Vinson and Alan Fitzpatrick This post originally appeared on Charlotte Hearts Gigabit. In early June, Mozilla, probably best known for its adorable vulpine mascot from the Firefox web browser, came to town to talk about the virtues of high-speed gigabit Internet c [...]
WILSON’S GREENLIGHT PROVIDES AFFORDABLE INTERNET ACCESS TO PUBLIC HOUSING RESIDENTS
By: Kate Svitavsky This article was originally published on ISLR.org. Super-fast, reliable, and affordable Internet access is coming to residents living in public housing in Wilson, North Carolina. Greenlight, Wilson’s municipal network, recently began providing 40 Megabits per seco [...]
AS THE BUSINESS INCUBATOR MOVEMENT GAINS NEW MOMENTUM IN THE STATE’S LARGEST CITIES, LET’S NOT FORGET ABOUT THE REST OF NORTH CAROLINA
By: Christa Wagner Vinson and Deb Watts This post originally appeared on Charlotte Hearts Gigabit. Co-working spaces, business incubators, technology and innovation centers, accelerators for entrepreneurs. No matter what you call them, says Business North Carolina’s Septembe [...]
GIGABIT INFRASTRUCTURE IN CHARLOTTE
By: Christa Wagner Vinson and Tom Snyder This post originally appeared on Charlotte Hearts Gigabit. Gigabit, city-wide networks, big data and the Internet of Things (IoT) -- components of the next-generation Internet economy -- will play a significant role in the way metro areas, an [...]
HOW SMALL AND MIDSIZE BUSINESSES WILL BENEFIT FROM GIGABIT
By: Jerry Wanamker This post originally appeared on Charlotte Hearts Gigabit. The following is a guest blog post from Jeremy Wanamaker, CEO of Complete Network Support in Charlotte. The arrival of low-cost Gigabit Internet is going to be a game changer for small and midsize business [...]
ACCESS FROM AT&T: A USER EXPERIENCE
By: Bruce Clark This post originally appeared on Charlotte Hearts Gigabit. AT&T recently announced "Access from AT&T", a $10 Internet access program for low-income households. This low-cost Internet access service was mandated by the FCC as part of the AT&T/DirecT [...]
GASTONIA HAS GIGABIT SPEED
By: Terry Cox and Alan Fitzpatrick On Friday August 28, 2015 AT&T announced that their Gigabit Internet service, GigaPower, is available to residential and small business customers in select areas of Gastonia, NC. This is a major win for the Gaston Gigabit committee, coun [...]
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A GIGABIT CITY? SHARING POSITIVE OUTCOMES TOGETHER (SPOT)
By: Catharine Rice In North Carolina, Wilson’s Greenlight gigabit fiber network is doing everything it can to ensure everyone benefits from this important municipal investment. The city-owned network is a key partner in a digital inclusion program, Sharing Positive Outcomes T [...]
BEING A GIG CITY: IT’S ALL ABOUT THE UPLOAD
This post was originally published on ISLR.org It’s all about the Upload. If you are the owner of a small engineering business with dense blueprints to send to your European clients, or a specialized country doctor who depends on the quick transmission of x-rays, a digital film eff [...]