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Althea expands broadband coverage to Tacoma, WashingtonIndustry Announcements, , 3/25/2022
CLATSKANIE, Ore. – Althea is proud to announce Tacoma, WA is the latest addition to its growing broadband coverage area, with installations and infrastructure investment focused in the Hilltop neighborhood. Founded in 2017, Althea's mission is rooted in the belief that affordable broadband connectivity is a fundamental right for all people that strengthens communities, economic growth, educational opportunities, and healthcare access. Althea is a distributed Internet Service Provider (ISP), which works together with local communities and network operators to provide sustainable high speed and low cost broadband access. This is made possible by Althea's unique technology, infrastructure, and routing protocol. Althea's routing protocol allows the service and accounting layers of the ISP to be almost entirely automated, and maximizes bandwidth utilization (i.e. delivers lower latency and higher speeds than one would typically experience from a given network connection, when compared to a traditional ISP routing protocol). This technology negates the need for contracts, late fees, and other drawbacks of traditional internet delivery. The mesh topology used to connect users also allows individuals to host infrastructure themselves, growing the network, and earning revenue share for doing so. This keeps value in the community, encourages community involvement, maintains low costs, and creates an ever more resilient network architecture. Althea uses a unique pay-as-you-go payment model, making it easy for users to manage costs. Additionally, each user has access to the always-on free tier, guaranteeing they will have access to no-cost basic internet, regardless of their financial situation. Unlike traditional ISPs, Althea's technology does not artificially throttle bandwidth or utilize speed tiers either, so users always get the maximum speed their equipment is capable of delivering. Althea users in Tacoma can expect speeds around 100 Mbps and pay, on average, around $25/month. Hilltop, Tacoma was also one of the first proof-of-concept networks for Althea, partnering in 2020 with Tacoma Cooperative Network and the University of Washington to build and test community led LTE networks. Through this work in Open5GS, Althea developed KeyLTE, which is an embedded EPC (LTE core) inside an Althea home router, which provides flexibility to build and grow LTE/5G networks anywhere, quickly and affordably. While Tacoma is the first major urban network to be built with this cutting edge technology, Althea network launches are planned in San Diego, California, Atlanta, and Georgia later this year. Althea's flexible payment system and agile technology will provide a holistic, community based network for the Hilltop area of Tacoma. This sustainable approach will ensure that the Hilltop area continues to be able to provide this important resource both now, and in the future. Read the full press release here. |
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