Whatever happened to the concept of ‘smart cities’? We used to write about them all the time, but the whole discipline seems to have splintered in recent years into a myriad of public and private urban smart-infrastructure sub-sectors, mostly covering the creeping modernisation of...
For years, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) considered the broadband minimum benchmark speed for small businesses to be 25 megabits per second (Mbps) for downloading and 3 Mbps for uploading. However, a recent report published by the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) confirmed...
Rockefeller Center spans 22 acres, encompassing three city blocks
Boingo Wireless has been selected to design, install and manage a new Wi-Fi 6 network at New York City’s Rockefeller Center. The center, a tourist draw with a seasonal ice-skating rink and famous for the massive...
Verizon has pledged to provide high-speed internet service to 500,000 additional NYC households
A lawsuit involving Verizon and the city of New York, which originated in 2017, was quietly settled over the Thanksgiving holiday, resulting in the operator pledging to provide high-speed internet service to...
ZenFi CEO estimated that New York City most likely has around 10,000 small cells
In January of this year, New York City regulators authorized a number of infrastructure providers to install small cell equipment on traffic and streetlights, bus shelters, public toilets and information kiosks...
The Federal Communications Commission has granted the Fire Department of New York expanded access to low-band spectrum in the New York metro area for public safety communications. The T-Band use will allow FDNY to expand capacity and coverage of its existing T-Band network to...
NEW YORK--Above an enormous blue billboard featuring a woman on a swing, the drab, briefcase-sized box wouldn't catch your eye unless you were hunting for it. But I was. I pulled up Ookla Speedtest on the shiny, new 5G device in my hand and...
NEW YORK--Four years ago, a 5G demo from Sprint and Nokia involved a van-sized base station and a test device the size of a small refrigerator.
By the time Sprint officially launched 5G service in New York City on Monday, the base station equipment had...
Amsterdam, Barcelona and New York City have launched a smart cities coalition for digital rights to protect citizens’ data and digital rights.
The new 'cities coalition for digital rights' coalition said the same human rights people have offline must also be protected in the digital...
Visual surveillance, public transport, and street lighting will command nearly one quarter of spending by smart cities this year, according to new figures from research house IDC.
The Asia-Pacific region, including China and Japan, will account for 42 per cent of spending in 2018, followed...
New research by McKinsey Global Institute has evaluated the planet’s smartest cities on both their underlying infrastructure and their over-lying applications, and ranked them in order on both counts. Here, we consider the second of these measures - the top 10 smart cities, globally,...
The New York City government said awardees will have the right to use existing light and utility poles to deploy new wireless infrastructure
The New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications has released a request for proposals (RFP) for firms who wish to...
Mastercard and Microsoft are to pool their payment, data analytics and cloud technologies to create a smart city “exchange” to help mayors, policy makers and urban planners tackle urban challenges such as traffic congestion and economic development.
The alliance will allow cities to use economic...
There may be no more appropriate place in the United States than New York City for a discussion on network densification and the challenges of "5G." ZenFi, a dark fiber backhaul company claiming to have the first solution of its kind deployed specifically to...
There may be no more appropriate place in the United States than New York City for a discussion on network densification and the challenges of "5G." ZenFi, a dark fiber backhaul company claiming to have the first solution of its kind deployed specifically to...
As Transit Wireless continues its massive project to cover nearly 280 underground subway stations in New York City, testing company Global Wireless Solutions decided to take a look at the quality of the coverage that has been extended thus far.
CEO Paul Carter spoke with...
Workers set to rally, walk off jobs
There are 38,000 Verizon Communication workers in the Northeast putting the wheels in motion to strike. The Communication Workers Association and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers are set to hold a rally on July 25 in New York City in...
Verizon has responded to a report by New York City's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications claiming the carrier did not follow through on its promise to provide its FiOS service to all five NYC boroughs.
The dispute is over a 2008 agreement that Verizon...
Verizon Communications is drawing the ire of New York City for not following through on a promise to provide FiOS service to all five boroughs.
In 2008, Verizon Communications signed a closed-door agreement with then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg to outfit the big apple with the bundled...
A new 700 MHz network is headed to the Big Apple. T-Mobile US CEO John Legere announced via the live-streaming app, Periscope, that the carrier will launch a Band 12 LTE network in New York City in the near future.
A viewer captured the announcement...
