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12-29-2017, 06:00 AM
How Newark's mayor will buck the FCC and protect the city's net neutrality
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The FCC may have squashed net neutrality (http://mashable.com/2017/12/19/how-to-help-fight-for-net-neutrality-what-to-do/), but Newark mayor Ras Baraka says the city will keep its internet lanes open and equitable.*
Unlike most U.S. cities, Newark has its own internet fiber cables running through town, so it can offer its own fast broadband service, called Newark Fiber (http://newarkfiber.org/#home).
In a partnership with the internet connectivity company Gigxero, Newark Fiber provides streets, parks, and businesses 1,000 and 10,000 megabits per second of data.*
It's essentially super fast internet. You only need 10 megabits to surf the internet and stream reasonably well.*
"The power is ours," Baraka told Mashable. "We have infrastructure that many cities just don’t have. It's arguably some of the fastest in the country." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/28/newark-mayor-ras-baraka-plans-to-keep-net-neutrality/)
More about Tech (http://mashable.com/tech/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Newark (http://mashable.com/category/newark/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Net Neutrality (http://mashable.com/category/net-neutrality/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), High Speed Broadband (http://mashable.com/category/high-speed-broadband/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Internet Access (http://mashable.com/category/internet-access/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/ovN1qRvKt1I
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The FCC may have squashed net neutrality (http://mashable.com/2017/12/19/how-to-help-fight-for-net-neutrality-what-to-do/), but Newark mayor Ras Baraka says the city will keep its internet lanes open and equitable.*
Unlike most U.S. cities, Newark has its own internet fiber cables running through town, so it can offer its own fast broadband service, called Newark Fiber (http://newarkfiber.org/#home).
In a partnership with the internet connectivity company Gigxero, Newark Fiber provides streets, parks, and businesses 1,000 and 10,000 megabits per second of data.*
It's essentially super fast internet. You only need 10 megabits to surf the internet and stream reasonably well.*
"The power is ours," Baraka told Mashable. "We have infrastructure that many cities just don’t have. It's arguably some of the fastest in the country." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/28/newark-mayor-ras-baraka-plans-to-keep-net-neutrality/)
More about Tech (http://mashable.com/tech/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Newark (http://mashable.com/category/newark/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Net Neutrality (http://mashable.com/category/net-neutrality/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), High Speed Broadband (http://mashable.com/category/high-speed-broadband/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Internet Access (http://mashable.com/category/internet-access/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/ovN1qRvKt1I