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Zero-Carbon Mayors Endorse Smart City Opportunities Nineteen mayors around the world last week inked the Net Zero Carbon Buildings Declaration, promising to ensure new buildings in their cities will operate at net-zero carbon by 2030, with even existing edifices meeting this mandate by 2050, through the use of smart technologies and other advances. By 2030, these city leaders vowed "owning, occupying and developing only assets that are net-zero carbon in operation." Recognizing they cannot do it alone, mayors seek the support and help of state and regional government, as well as the private sector, the declaration said. "Net zero carbon buildings are green and healthy buildings. They use energy ultra-efficiently and are supplied by renewables," according to the mayors' statement."They are comfortable homes where money isn’t wasted on energy bills, productive workplaces insulated from extreme temperatures, and healthy schools free from dirty air." Whether providers serve up metro high-speed Internet via fiber or VDSL or Gfast, cities where leaders want to positively effect the environment will probably create a business environment more conducive to infrastructure deployment. After all, carbon testing and monitoring devices, thermostats and appliances, doors and windows that block the worst of the sun's rays and a host of other connected solutions, gadgets and applications demand high-speed broadband and in-home WiFi. Signatories included leaders from cities such as Copenhagen, Denmark; Johannesburg; London; Los Angeles; Montreal; New York City; Newburyport, Mass.; Paris; Portland, Ore.; San Francisco; San Jose, Calif.; Santa Monica, Calif.; Stockholm; Sydney; Tokyo; Toronto; Tshwane, South Africa; Vancouver and Washington, D.C. Related posts:
— Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News. Follow us on Twitter or @alisoncdiana.
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In a flurry of activity throughout the week, Donald (DJ) LaVoy, Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development at the US Department of Agriculture, and his team spent about $145.8 million in the non-urban or suburban areas of seven states.
Calix reported revenue of $120.19 million – up 4% – in Q4 2019, putting a bounce in the step of company president and CEO Carl Russo and a shine to Calix's ongoing transition from hardware vendor to a provider of platforms enabled by cloud, APIs and subscriber experience.
Looking to curtail e-waste and improve the bottom line, BT will require customers to return routers and set-top boxes, although subscribers will not have to pay a fee when they receive regular broadband equipment.
The industry standards organization is looking to ease operator pain from residential WiFi, while it also sees initiatives in connected home and other projects bear fruit.
Deploying DOCSIS 3.1 across its entire footprint gave Rogers Communications the ability to offer speeds of up to 1 Gbit/s,
contributing to a broadband segement that generated about 60% of the Canadian operator's $3.05 billion (US) in Q4 cable earnings.
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