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Guide Your Community in Best Practices for Staying Safe on Public Wi-Fi The internet powers nearly everything your community members do, and it’s becoming an expectation that they have these capabilities wherever they go. A recent study found 82% of respondents willingly connect to free public Wi-Fi networks. It’s long been known that public Wi-Fi is not […]

An examination of some digital trends on the rise and how different solutions provided by EPIC IO adopt these trends From 5G to Applied AI, technology has really changed the rules of the game. What does the future look like for your community or business? Ten digital trends are rapidly on the rise. They can

With governments calling for more AI oversight, the technology sector needs to educate the public on protective features they can implement right now. The growing use of artificial intelligence for smart cities is changing the rules for everyone, including government agencies, elected officials, constituents and AI vendors. Research on embedded bias in the algorithms running

This article was published in the Forbes Technology Council, an invitation-only community for world-class CIOs, CTOs, and technology executives. This year, efforts by public agencies to improve community safety and well-being with smart, data-driven services have reached a tipping point. In 2018, IDC researchers predicted that the deployment of next-generation technologies such as edge computing, artificial intelligence,

Today, copper telephone lines that support POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) are an aging infrastructure that’s getting more and more expensive to maintain. Major telephone providers have already started phasing out their support of analog POTS lines – promising for a full phase-out, nationwide. These adjustments are pushing customers to look at other options to

Companies today have a need – a need for higher internet speeds. For today’s business demands, the amount of data that is required by companies is growing exponentially. In 2016, businesses required 43.3 billion gigabytes of data to operate, compared to today, which has jumped drastically to 141.73 billion gigabytes. By 2023, it’s estimated that

In early 2021, thousands of people and businesses in the Northeast were left without internet service, or at least a degradation of service, for most of the day when a major ISP’s service mysteriously went down. According to the company, service interruption was reported from widespread areas, including Boston, New York City, Washington DC, and

A few weeks ago we wrote a blog post, “The Future of 5G Will be Shaped by the Mid-Band Spectrum Bidding War,” that took a hard look at the upcoming 5G Spectrum auction and, based on our perspective, shared thoughts and predictions on how we thought things would shake out with the major industry telecom

Technology enables organizations to push their boundaries and capabilities by making smarter decisions backed by data. It is said that data is an organization’s most precious resource, and if harnessed correctly, could transform any company’s competitive advantage drastically and make them a leader in their given space. We’re seeing the explosion of artificial intelligence (AI)