DETROIT - Stu Johnson, Vice President of Digital Works, joins the Internet Advisor to share an important event for citizens of Newaygo in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula north of Grand Rapids. It is a great example of why it is so important to connect our rural communities to high speed Internet at reasonable cost points. Digital Works (DW) celebrated
DETROIT — The Detroit-based gigabit internet and technology service provider Rocket Fiber will provide free wi-fi service on the QLine streetcars when they begin operations Friday, May 12, the companies announced. The services include network-based technology to incorporate into the QLine main office at the Penske Technical Center and public wi-fi at the stations and
ANN ARBOR - Internet2, the non-profit high-speed networking consortium led by the research and education communities, has named veteran broadband executive Howard Pfeffer its new president and CEO. Internet2’s administrative headquarters is in Ann Arbor, with offices in Denver, Colo., Emeryville, Calif., Washington, D.C., and West Hartford, Conn. Pfeffer brings more than 30 years of
LUDINGTON — The Mason County Broadband Committee has partnered with the community engagement program of the nonprofit Connected Nation to develop a plan to improve access to high speed Internet in the county. The initial step to developing a comprehensive, county-oriented plan will consist of a short survey for agriculture producers, business organizations and owners,
SOUTHFIELD - A California digital communications provider announced it has set up a Point of Presence at the Southfield data center of 123Net, the first PoP in Michigan for Hurricane Electric. One of four data centers that 123Net owns and operates in Michigan, the 18,000-square-foot Southfield center offers high-capacity colocation and disaster recovery space, as
DETROIT - AT&T has activated an upgrade to bring faster speeds to nearly 100 cell sites in Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Washtenaw, Genesee, Lapeer, Livingston and St. Clair counties. The bandwidth expansion provides additional capacity to the existing 4G LTE on the sites, creating increased data speeds. AT&T customers using the network should experience better service
LIVONIA — The city of Livonia has partnered with Denver-based Wide Open West, a cable TV provider that does business as WOW! Internet, Cable & Phone, to offer its WOW! Business fiber-optic connectivity. WOW! began working with the city of Livonia in 2015 to install fiber with 100 megabits per second of dedicated internet access
DETROIT - Detroit Comcast residential and business customers will be able to tap into the Internet with ultra-high speed gigabit service in the second half of this year, Comcast announced Tuesday. Detroit (the city of not the entire metropolitan area) will join Chicago and Miami in late summer or fall. Atlanta and Nashville will get
LAS VEGAS - A Las Vegas, Nev. data center operator said Thursday that its massive planned data center near Grand Rapids would be powered 100 percent by renewable energy. Switch said it had already begun working with the local utility, Consumers Energy, to supply its 2-million-square-foot SUPERNAP data center in Gaines Township with green power.
SAN FRANCISCO - Time Warner confirmed Wednesday that email addresses and passwords of up to 320,000 customers may have been stolen. The company said it doesn't know yet how data was compromised, but speculated it was either attacks against other companies that store TWC subscriber information or malware downloaded in phishing attacks on customers. Cyberattacks
