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Thursday 16 May 2019
Tribes across country push for better internet access

By FELICIA FONSECA fly out of the canyon and
Associated Press drive more than two hours
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — In to a community college
a remote, roadless Ari- in Flagstaff for classes. She
zona canyon that is home also had to take her young
to a small Native Ameri- daughter with her.
can tribe, there’s a natural Jordan Manakaja eventu-
skepticism toward the inter- ally wants to get her bach-
net. elor’s degree and become
The telemedicine equip- a therapist in the communi-
ment that health care of- ty. She prefers online class-
ficials promised would es at home where she can
work gathers dust. School interact with an instructor.
children who have online “We have the opportu-
homework struggle to get nity to wind down and get
online. And streaming a comfortable before we’re
web-based conference or in a classroom,” she said.
taking classes remotely? “That was more beneficial
Well, “that’s a lot of luck to us mentally.”
you’d have to get,” said The tribe won’t know
Ophelia Watahomigie- whether it can make other
Corliss, who sits on the This undated photo provided by Amy Martin shows Ophelia Watahomigie-Corliss, a member of plans for the spectrum, like
Havasupai Tribal Council. the Havasupai Tribal Council, at Red Butte, a site that the Havasupai consider sacred about 15 using telemedicine, trans-
Things started to change miles south of Tusayan, Ariz. mitting medical records
after a small company ap- Associated Press electronically or starting
proached the tribe with a possibly auction off the 2.5 residents was centered Broadband Services spec- an online high school, until
plan to broaden coverage GHz-band spectrum. It’s on the community build- trum — a sort of channel the FCC decides whether
for educational use. It’s not clear when the FCC will ing in the village of Supai. of electromagnetic waves to grant the tribe’s appli-
now using the experience act. The agency estimates Thousands of tourists who — that wasn’t being used. cation for a permanent
to help push the federal that about one-third of the trek 10 miles (16 kilometers) Flagstaff-based Niles Radio license. Nearly 2,190 licens-
government to give tribes people living on tribal lands down a winding trail to see Communications helped es that generally cover a
priority for broadband don’t have access to high- the reservation’s famed build the network. 35-mile radius have been
spectrum largely unas- speed internet, but others blue-green waterfalls have “We’re really putting our granted to 1,300 licensees,
signed across the western say the figure is twice as no internet access at their chips on EBS,” said Mariel according to the FCC. The
United States. high. That’s partly because campsites away from the Triggs, chief executive of agency has asked for pub-
The Federal Communica- homes on remote reserva- village. MuralNet. “It works in ex- lic comment on realigning
tions Commission has not tions are spread far apart. The tribe began working treme cases. It’s cheap; it’s the boundaries of the li-
issued any new permanent And tribes say large tele- with a company called reliable.” censes, eliminating the ed-
licenses for the Educa- communications compa- MuralNet in 2017 to get Jacqueline Siyuja now has ucational use requirement,
tional Broadband Services nies are unwilling to expand teachers and students a wireless router to take and allowing tribes, current
spectrum in more than 20 to tribal lands because of better access. They suc- online classes for her job at licensees or new educa-
years. It asked the public the cost. cessfully sought temporary the tribe’s Head Start pro- tional entities to access un-
a year ago to weigh in on The internet on the Havasu- authority from the FCC gram. A few years ago, she assigned spectrum before
possible changes to the li- pai reservation has been to use the Educational and her colleagues had to a possible auction.q
censing system to better a mixed bag. Tribal em-
define geographic areas, ployees could sign on to
build in flexibility, create their email and do internet New security flaw in Intel chips
priorities for tribes and edu- searches but not much
cational institutions, and else. Public access for 450 could affect millions

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) —
Intel has revealed another
hardware security flaw
that could affects millions
of machines around the
world.
The bug is embedded in
the architecture of com-
puter hardware, and it
can’t be fully fixed.
“With a large enough data
sample, time or control
of the target system’s be-
havior,” the flaw could en-
able attackers to see data
thought to be off-limits, Bry-
an Jorgensen, Intel’s senior In this Oct. 3, 2018, file photo the Intel logo appears on a screen
director of product assur- at the Nasdaq MarketSite, in New York’s Times Square.
ance and security, said in a Associated Press
video statement. anyone exploiting it outside the real world is a complex
But Intel said Tuesday of a research laboratory. undertaking,” Jorgensen
there’s no evidence of “Doing so successfully in said. q