Like every year, Facebook is using MWC Barcelona to focus on its infrastructure projects. While you may mostly think of Facebook as a social network, the company started launching infrastructure projects for bringing more people online (and onto its network) many years ago. These projects include things like the (now-cancelled) solar-powered Aquila drone and plenty […]
Infrastructure
In the city, we're constantly saturated with the radio waves from ten or twenty different routers, cell towers, and other wireless infrastructure. But in rural communities there might only be one internet connection for a whole village. LibreRouter is a hardware and software project that looks to let those communities build their own modern, robust mesh networks to make the most of their limited connectivity.
The LibreRouter project aims to make mesh networks simple and ...
The FCC is pushing for speedy deployment of 5G networks nationwide with an order adopted today that streamlines what it perceives as a patchwork of obstacles, needless costs, and contradictory regulations at the state level. But local governments say the federal agency is taking things too far.
FCC cracks the whip on 5G deployment against protests of ...
The UK government has set out a package of measures it’s hoping will futureproof domestic networks and boost international competitiveness by supporting a nationwide rollout of full fiber broadband and 5G mobile technology. The Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review, published today, follows the announcement of a market review last year as part of the government’s Industrial Strategy […]
UK sets out plan to spend billions on fiber and ...
The infrastructure that underpins our lives is not something we ever want to think about. Nothing good has come from suddenly needing to wonder “where does my water come from?” or “how does electricity connect into my home?” That pondering gets even more intense when we talk about cellular infrastructure, where a single dropped call […]
How backups, backups, backups protect NYC’s cellular infrastructure
Startups in the UK will be hoping for better performance from the local broadband market after telecoms regulator Ofcom agreed a deal with the country’s largest broadband provider, BT, to legally separate Openreach: aka the division of BT that builds and maintains the broadband infrastructure. Read MoreUK broadband giant BT agrees legal separation from pipes-controller, Openreach
While Google is using MWC to show off some of its advances in native apps on mobile devices — specifically in chat apps — the world’s biggest chat app company is doing something completely different. Today, Facebook announced that it is building a 770-kilometer (500-mile) fiber backhaul network in Uganda, in partnership with India’s Airtel and wholesale provider BCS… Read MoreFacebook digs into mobile infrastructure in Uganda as TIP commits ...
One designer's dreamed up a type of train he thinks could replace Boston's entire mass transit system.
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Far-Fetched Plan for Mass Transit Is Intriguing at Least
Congress did a great job finally passing a long-term transportation funding bill. But it's not perfect, and we have more work to do.
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It’s Great We Finally Have a Transit Funding Bill—But There’s ...
London's $28-billion underground system is getting a whole new battery of bespoke machines to finish construction.
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