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Telecom CEO, FL company plead guilty to $100m in Lifeline fraud

Q Link Wireless of Dania Beach, Florida and its CEO, Issa Asad, have both pleaded guilty to defrauding the federal Lifeline program that provides discounted connectivity services to low-income people, in a scheme that stole more than $100 million from the program over about...

Smart cities Q&A | Five key questions for five tech providers: What’s so good about PPP? (2/5)

Ahead of the release on November 5 of a major report by Enterprise IoT Insights into the state of the smart city market, entitled How to buy / sell a smart city – procurement models to make every city smart, we present five burning questions...

Five ways to fund a smart city

The scramble for technology to create cleaner, safer, richer cities has intensified as funding models have started to take root. The fashion for smart city pilot tests has finished. The technology works, we are told. The last challenge is how to pay for them,...