URBAN WIRELESS SOLUTIONS, LLC

We are so pleased and excited to announce our newly formed relationship with Canton Township, the 9th largest community in the State of Michigan. We will be working with Canton to assess its current broadband status and needs and develop a master plan to guide its journey for broadband and telecommunicsations to adequately serve its residents and businesses. We look forward to working with Supervisor Anne Marie Graham-Hudak and her adminstration on this journey.

It has recently been brought to our attention via information provided by the USDA that as of 2022, only about 10% of the farms in Michigan have adopted precision agriculture as part of its business operation. It is likely that of that 10%, it is the large corporate farming operations that comprise the majority. Farming is as important to the Michigan economy as the auto industry. Our small to mid-size famring operations are suffering in today's economy and in their efforst to remain competitive with the large scale operations. Precision agriculture is a tool that can be used to help make our famring community more efficient, operate more cost effectively and put them on a more level playing field with the big guys. We know that cost to adopt or deploy high tech equiopment and software is one roadblock to mass adoption. We would love to hear from members of the farming community or the jurisdictions where farming is most prevalent as to what they feel are the biggest hurdles to adoption of precision agricultre in thier operations or community. Reach out to the team at Urban Wireless Solutions.We would love to discuss views and solutions to this issue, not only in Michigan, but across the Country.

Can't really say I'm surprised by this news, but I can't help but wonder what happens to this if we have a chnage in leadership come November. https://lnkd.in/dxbUxX4d

Reading this story about what Massachusetts has done with its funding from the Capital Projects Fund has me wondering out loud whether this type of project would have been a better use of this money in states where there is significant urban population. In every state, the project has a different name. In Michigan, it was ROBIN. Most all of the money seems to have gone to projects that deploy fiber in "rural" areas, which is important and is needed. However, those same types of areas seem to be the primary focus of where BEAD money will go. Again, this is not necessarily a bad thing. It just seems logical that one program should have been focused on the urban digital divide and the other on the rural digital divide, at least as it pertains to infrastructure. Not sure if there's a right answer here. Just food for thought. https://lnkd.in/ezSsuMNK

This action by the FCC is long overdue and unfortuately the 100/20 standard for broadband is probably already obsolete. It is a step in the right direction, however. But as this article by Mike Dano points out, there is still much debate about the defintion of broadband and different technologies going forward. At a minimum, more attention should be paid to the standard for upload speeds. https://lnkd.in/ez4WuB_k

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