Can a metal box the size of a toaster oven bridge the digital divide? Denver startup believes it can.

Read The Denver Post’s article on the LINKED Program’s EUCAST Project.

“Colorado’s soaring mountains and its sparsely populated rural areas make it difficult to provide high-speed broadband and wireless services consistently across wide swaths of the state.

Many of the technologies now available to boost connectivity are prohibitively expensive or just not commercially viable, and the number of underserved people in the state, when it comes to broadband connectivity, is greatly understated by as much as a four-to-one ratio, according to one study last year by a consumer group.

A new Denver company, Eucast Global, is introducing “network in a box” technology from South Korea which it claims can bridge the state’s digital divide in a more affordable and robust way than other alternatives on the market, providing access to LTE and 4G cellular, internet and soon 5G services in parts of the state that have lacked it.”

Read more here.

Jim Ducay, LINKED Program Director
Photo Credit: Hyoung Chang, The Denver Post