We are pleased that the county of Napa and the city of Calistoga are updating their ordinances to address the recent trend of wireless companies requesting to put âsmallâ cell antennas and macro cell towers in the public right-of-way, bringing them closer to where people live, work, and go to school, thereby increasing peopleâs exposure to wireless radiation, creating visual blight, and lowering peopleâs property values.
Unfortunately, their proposed ordinances are not what concerned citizens had in mind.
Unless amended, these ordinances will codify the free-for-all that has taken place during the last two years, when the Napa County public works director allowed Verizon to install seven 4G/5G-ready cell antennas on telephone poles along Silverado Trail and Illumination Technologies to install three 60-foot monopoles as speculative cell towers, two just outside of Calistoga and one on Silverado Trail across from the historic Soda Canyon Store, in close proximity
By Liz Holbrook
Jul 9, 2021 | 8:35 PM
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) â With an infrastructure vote coming up next week, one congressional representative is hearing from local Wisconsinites.
Congress returns from its Fourth of July recess next week and will get to work on discussing and trying to pass a Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework. Part of that infrastructure framework agreement includes $65 billion for broadband infrastructure, an issue that Marathon County has been working on for the past 15 years.
To get insight on what those issues have been in expanding broadband infrastructure in the area, Senator Tammy Baldwin held a roundtable with nearly a dozen people from various professions and areas around Marathon County. Those involved in the roundtable shared their frustrations and hope for broadband in the area that could be helped by the new infrastructure agreement.
In Missouri, many still lack broadband access
Ledyard King and Mike Stucka
USA TODAY NETWORK
As federal officials debate pouring billions of dollars into broadband access, data suggests many of Missouri s schoolchildren and adults who preferred to work from home spent the pandemic with sub-par access to high-speed internet, particularly in the state s least-wealthy counties.
Advocates say that digital divide across the United States is due largely to two factors: a lack of internet infrastructure in the country s rural reaches and the relatively high cost of broadband that has made the service unaffordable for many in urban centers.
In about half of Missouri s counties 58 of 115 measured by a Federal Communications Commission study, broadband access is available to at least 71% of residents. Yet in about half of the state measured by Microsoft 58 of 115 counties no more than 15% of households actually have high-speed access, a USA TODAY analysis shows.
Amazon.com Inc. has won U.S. permission to use radar to monitor consumers’ sleep habits. The Federal Communications Commission on Friday granted Amazon.com Inc. approval to use a radar sensor to sense motion and “enable contactless sleep tracing functionalities.”
Amazon on June 22 asked the FCC, which regulates airwave uses, for permission to market a device that uses radar. The technology captures movement in three dimensions, enabling a user to control its features through simple gestures and movements, the company said in a filing. The capability, according to Amazon, could help people with “with mobility, speech, or tactile impairments,”and it could monitor sleep with a high degree of precision.
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