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NetEquity and Althea announce strategic partnership to build broadband networks by using smart contracts

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NetEquity and Althea announce strategic partnership to build broadband networks by using smart contracts

NetEquity Networks and Althea Networks have entered into a strategic partnership to finance, build and operate last-mile broadband networks. Our first project will be in rural Nebraska where we will leverage the fiber optic network owned by OPTK Networks (“OPTK”).

Digital Divide Narrowing Substantially?

Digital Divide Narrowing Substantially?

It's June 2019 and today I'm going to install a new subscriber of our cooperative ISP in rural Oregon. This family had previously only access to 1Mbps wireless or an expensive 4Mbps DSL connection. This is not a new or isolated incident. I receive calls every

May Community Update

May Community Update

We launched six new Altheahoods communities in early May. An Altheahood community is selected by an organizer as a potential deployment. Local organizers then work together with the Althea team to get people signed up and “pre-registered” prior to committing to a buildout. One of these organizers, Perri, had been

March Update

We were so busy building and growing I think we missed an update in February! We now have 23 users in Clatskanie [https://blog.althea.org/tales-from-the-field/], and several relays (a relay is a node that has a connecting antenna and an antenna that broadcasts to neighbors – relays make money

Althea Development Update #62: Free tier design and the life of a packet

Althea Development Update #62: Free tier design and the life of a packet

Since our last update bandwidth payments have been making their way down the stabilization pipeline we’re going to roll out Alpha 12 to…

Metered Bandwidth on Althea

Metered Bandwidth on Althea

In this post I’m going to explain Althea’s billing system and how it provides more transparency, choice, and control than the traditional…

Althea Development Update #58: Online Port toggling, more payments progress

Althea Development Update #58: Online Port toggling, more payments progress

Deborah and Jehan spent last week in Medellin Colombia helping to setup an Althea network there. You should read Deborah’s blog post about…

Althea in rural Oregon

Althea in rural Oregon

This article is about a network started by Deborah Simpier, who has been working on incentivized mesh for years, but joined the Althea team a couple months ago. She started this network before joining our team, and was actually Althea’s first user.