High-speed Internet has been so much a part of the typical listener’s life that few remember the construction crew in your neighborhood when you got high speed Internet.  Contrasted to that, we all know about the massive infrastructure bill that is attempting to level the high-speed Internet playing field for everyone in the United States. 

Lisa Von Bargen from the Alaska broadband office presents a nightmare scenario for trying to give Internet to rural areas.  When describing the geography of the last frontier, she states much of Alaska is roadless. What will come as a shock is, in some parts of rural Alaska, it can cost as much as a million dollars a mile to cover that final distance!

Geographic considerations are forcing Lisa and her staff and technology partners to be more creative about offering high-speed connections. Listen to experts from states like Michigan and companies like Federated Wireless show how they are being forced to be flexible and creative in their approach.

One topic brought up was a solution called a 5G Private Network.  If you have a rural area and can get fiber to one part of it, there are systems today that can set up wireless services to that geographic area.  This “5G Private Network” provides options for redundancy and security that others don’t provide.

Speaking of flexibility, when it comes to Citizen Band Radio, we normally think of truck drivers. Innovation has come to the Citizen Band Radio Service.   Listen to how Federal Wireless and AWS are using new parts of the spectrum to provide Internet to remote tribes. 

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