Verizon boosts 4G LTE capacity
Verizon Wireless has expanded its newest technology — known as XLTE — in Brunswick, Savannah, Macon and Warner Robins to boost 4G LTE network capacity and enhance high-speed services for customers.
XLTE utilizes Verizon’s Advanced Wireless Services spectrum, which allows Verizon to deliver significantly increased capacity over its high-speed 4G LTE network. This means more customers in high-traffic locations can access the company’s most advanced technology at the same time to send photos, download videos, surf the Internet and use other popular applications during times of peak usage.
XLTE technology is particularly effective in settings with a concentrated group of high-data demand customers, such as densely-populated areas, rush-hour commutes, concert venues and sports arenas.
More than 300 of Verizon’s 4G LTE 500-plus markets have been enhanced with XLTE, with more scheduled to be completed by the end of the year.
Anonymous donor gives theater $100,000
The Tybee Post Theater has hired an architect and announced a donation of slightly more than $100,000 that will be used to recharge the long-awaited restoration of the 1930s movie house.
The gift came from a donor with ties to Tybee who asked to remain anonymous, theater officials said. It’s the largest single donation ever received by the Friends of Tybee Theater, the non-profit organization formed more than a decade ago to restore and reopen it.
Jim Kluttz, president of the theater’s board of directors, said the donation came from an individual who has strong connections to Tybee.
“He believes our island really needs a community gathering place where we can experience the arts together, be it movies, music, plays, dance performances. You name it. This Theater will be that place,” Kluttz said.
The donation comes in addition to foundation grants of $10,000 and $5,000 that were received this spring.
Enmark donates to ‘Girls on the Run’
Matching proceeds raised from Paula Kreissler’s “Five Strategies for Busy Families to Stay Healthy,” the second of five lectures in the Enmark Encourage Health Education Series 2014, Enmark Stations raised $2,000 for Girls on the Run of Coastal Georgia, a local Savannah nonprofit.
The nonprofit raised an additional $432 during the Enmark Dollar Day at Enmark’s store on Waters Avenue.
Beth Aldrich, executive director of Girls on the Run of Coastal Georgia, said the money will be used for scholarships.
The Encourage Health Educational Series, held in the Savannah Morning News auditorium, happens on the last Tuesday of the months of February, April, June, August and October.
