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Tech Giants Join Linux Foundation’s Connected-Cities Efforts

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Christine Hall
Jun 21, 2019

Why would tech giants like Facebook, Google, and IBM be interested in jumping on the connected-cities bandwagon? The answer is simple: the cities that are already getting connected are generating enough data to make the bandwidth being used by major social networks seem trivial by comparison.

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Christine Hall

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