Friend to wisp? From: Josh Reynolds Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2017 12:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT USignite
Nonprofit. Awarded a $6mil grant from the National Science Foundation. Trying to grow "smart cities", increase access to high speed broadband and cached Content, etc. They also oversee the Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research Office (PAWR), which claims to have $100mil in in public and private resources. They have partners like bell labs, Samsung, oracle, juniper, commscope, Verizon, Intel, Qualcomm, Carlson wireless, fibertower, crown castle, etc. On Apr 6, 2017 1:27 PM, "Chuck McCown" <[email protected]> wrote: Can someone give me an executive summary of what USignite is? They are contacting local cities and telling them to join. And they are directing the cities to get a Gig from Comcast so they can join. Comcast cannot give them a gig in Saragoga Springs but Sterling can. Is this NGO? Not for profit? For profit? Looks like they are trying to build a large government network.
