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Imperial Valley Telecommunications Authority outlines BorderLink network and free connectivity programs
Summary
A representative of the Imperial Valley Telecommunications Authority described a countywide JPA-owned fiber and wireless network that now provides free BorderLink internet service; the system includes roughly 22 towers, about 11,000 SIMs in circulation and more than 7,000 customer premises devices, officials said.
Michael Kaler, assistant director for network initiatives at the Imperial County Office of Education and presenter for the Imperial Valley Telecommunications Authority (IVTA), briefed the council on March 18 about the countywide communications cooperative and its BorderLink wireless service.
Kaler described IVTA as a joint powers authority that connects more than 100 member sites across Imperial County with a mix of fiber and point-to-point wireless. "A majority of them are connected via fiber optic cable, our own privately owned fiber optic cable," he said.
He said IVTA operates a privately owned LTE service called BorderLink that uses roughly 100 megahertz of spectrum the JPA had available. Kaler said the BorderLink program began in earnest after 2017 and…
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