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North Carolina Althea Network wins EPIC grant

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: LaShawn Williamson Wave 7 Communications, LLC Phone: 877-356-0741 ext. 1012 3125 Kathleen Ave, Suite 229 Email: lashawn@wave7comm.net Greensboro, NC 27408 Wave 7 Communications, LLC is an Internet Service Provider, empowering the rural community of Enfield, NC to not only become users of their high-speed internet, but also serve as a key part of how the network expands and grows in their town through a $154,000 grant awarded to Wave 7 from the Internet Society

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Community Network

How Smart Contracts on Blockchain Can Bring Broadband to All

Written by Isfandiyar Shaheen [https://ishaheen10.medium.com/?source=post_page-----17a1e73137e0--------------------------------] , founder of NetEquity, and shared with permission The short answer: * Smart contracts on blockchain make revenue share contracts possible between stakeholders of a broadband network. * Revenue share contracts reduce the amount of risk capital required to build and operate a broadband network. * Reducing dependence on risk capital makes it feasible for stake

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Blockchain

Thoughts on the Interconnection between Communications and Financial Services

Financial empowerment and the ownership and choice of communications are the key pillars to solving the digital divide. Recent numbers from Microsoft [https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2020/03/05/update-connecting-rural-america/] indicate that over forty percent of people in the US do not access the internet at broadband speeds, a problem that is often relegated to the lack of infrastructure, making the case that there simply isn’t enough “internet pipes” to reach everyone. A quick gl

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Africa

Althea in Nigeria

Written by Yakubu Yakubu, Nigerian Network Operator/Coordinator Diplomats Park Nigeria has the largest population in Africa at about 200million citizens. However, only 46% of the population have internet access via cellular carriers. Many people lack adequate and qualitative internet connectivity, This is due in part to inefficiency in coming up with innovative technological solutions that address the situation and also big telecommunication companies who would prefer to monopolise the ind

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abuja

November Community Update

We are excited to share the latest Althea news! Over the last few months, many of our prospective deployments are getting close to launch, and networks in Tacoma, Washington, and Abuja, Nigeria have broken ground. New Altheahoods have also started in Phillipsburg, Tempe, DuBois, Grand Island, and South Africa. The network in Clatskanie, Oregon has around 50 subscribers now and over 70 people are waiting for Althea internet. The reach in Clatskanie continues to grow mostly through the efforts of

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Althea business

A Sustainable Network

The novelty of the Althea system [https://althea.org/how-it-works] is how it incentivizes a diverse group of partners within the network and automates their collaboration. Local organizers work together with home and business owners to host infrastructure that relays bandwidth throughout the community. This unique collaboration can give rise to a variety of different setups and economic models. In this post, I’m going to explore two frequently used economic models, and I encourage creativity in

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Altheamesh

Althea in Los Mochis

On a sunny day in the city of Los Mochis, Mexico, Althea organizer Raul, runs a speed test on an expensive 20Mbps connection. 20Mbps, which is not even considered broadband in the US, is about the fastest connection available in the city. Today, like most days here, the speedtest shows an underwhelming 1Mbps of download speed. Raul is here to change this - to bring real improvement to both the cost and speed of internet, starting in Los Mochis and growing to all of Mexico. Raul installing a Mi

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