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Fiber optic ring will improve internet speed, stability
More than 60 California community leaders are calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom to pass universal broadband access legislation. With so many working from home and kids now enrolled in home school programs, internet access has quickly become a necessity. Instead of making internet a utility, this utility is making room for internet. Hawaiian Electric Company is upgrading and relocating power lines through Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, a process that will allow Spectrum and Hawaiian Telcom to share space on the poles to complete the broadband loop. What other symbiotic relationships are forming from the shift in demand and the need for survival? How soon could your utility become an internet provider?
Fiber optic ring will improve internet speed, stability
Just when COVID-19 has turned many meetings virtual and a faster, more stable communications network is needed most, a project a decade in the making is about to reach completion.
Source: www.westhawaiitoday.com
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