Broadband & Network
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County commissioners got a revised schedule for federally funded broadband work. Service provider contracts remain to be signed, and construction is slated to wrap by the end of 2029.
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The Trump administration has asserted for months that its “bargain” version of the federal $42.5 billion grant program to expand access to broadband Internet would save taxpayers money.
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Suggesting that online instruction will be part of public school education well into the months to come, New Britain, Conn., is looking for ways to make Wi-Fi available to low-income families.
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San Rafael, Calif., has released a plan for a community Wi-Fi network in the Canal area to address longstanding digital inequities that have become more glaring since the coronavirus outbreak.
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Free public Wi-Fi hot spots have been added throughout Grant and Adams counties, and around the rest of Washington state, as part of a continuing project to improve access to high-speed Internet.
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Chattanooga, which pioneered the first citywide gigabit-per-second broadband service a decade ago by the city-owned utility EPB, was the smallest among the cities selected for the annual honor.
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In California, COVID-19 and school closures have exposed the depth of the digital divide. But in San Jose, the state and private partners have a strategy that boosts digital inclusion and could be a model nationwide.
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Residents in rural areas will be able to access free broadband Internet through a Washington State Department of Commerce initiative to bring more than 300 new drive-in Wi-Fi hotspots in the state.
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Few in the state doubt that expanding broadband access would bring benefits across the board, and the coronavirus outbreak has underlined the problems that households lacking adequate connections can face.
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Six counties will see the installation of a fiber-optic network over the next three years. Fiber construction is expected to begin in the middle of this year with the first members connected by fall of 2020.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture will spend $23 million to expand broadband in rural communities in New Mexico. The expansion hopes to aid agricultural producers and bring telehealth to these areas.
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With Orangeburg County, S.C., receiving a $9.75 million USDA grant to expand broadband infrastructure, more than a thousand residents there have become one step closer to receiving Internet access.
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COVID-19 has thoroughly upended plans to support the Census that have been in the works for months or even years, and now stakeholders at all levels of government must stay flexible in finding creative ways to adapt.
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Since New York and the state started issuing stay-at-home orders in mid-March, families that might have accessed the Internet through a library or school have been forced to find other alternatives or go without.
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The Mississippi Public Service Commission has called on the state’s senior U.S. senator to expedite the process of disbursing the federal funds needed to improve rural broadband connectivity.
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Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh, R-Anniston, is calling for $800 million out of an estimated $1.7 billion in federal coronavirus funding to go toward the expansion of state broadband infrastructure.
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In terms of Internet speed and availability, the transition to working and schooling from home for Worcester County residents and employers — not to mention Internet providers — has been nearly painless.
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Salem, Mass., students who aren't able to get online at home can get hooked up to high-speed Internet for free for six months thanks to a new partnership between the school district, Comcast and a local nonprofit.
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As more people add more connected devices to their residential and commercial networks, it begins to affect Internet performance. The addition of more spectrum gives Wi-Fi some breathing room.
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The National Digital Inclusion Alliance is keeping an online running tally of the actions that state and local governmental organizations are deploying to keep their constituents connected during the crisis.
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