Broadband & Network
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The City Council approved giving OnLight Aurora, set up to manage the city’s fiber network, $80,000 via either a loan or grant. A key issue, an alderman said, is getting the organization back on track. -
Plus, New York has reopened applications for grants through its ConnectALL program, New Mexico celebrated progress on connectivity expansion, fiber networks continue expanding to new locations, and more.
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All middle-mile construction is now either built or funded, an official said. The next step is last-mile work, bringing actual connections to homes, and meeting with stakeholders to gather infrastructure data.
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Telemedicine has made strides in Indiana since the state passed its first major piece of legislation in 2015, regulating the new technology and requiring private payers and Medicaid to cover telehealth services.
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen said Internet access is an issue for rural communities throughout the country, and that the federal government has a bipartisan effort to expand state funding for rural broadband.
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While KentuckyWired has left a bad taste in the mouths of many state and community leaders, the Green River Area Development District's ConnectGRADD Internet initiative is starting to gain statewide attention.
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I3 BROADBAND, which has built a fiber-optic network in central Illinois and offers Internet, TV and phone service to the region, says it is looking "to rescue Springfield from the cable and telephone monopolies.”
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Historically black colleges and universities are closely linked to their surrounding areas, including rural places on the other side of the digital divide. The Minority Broadband Initiative wants to take advantage of these connections.
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Critical of the way federal data on broadband Internet is currently collected, U.S. Rep. Anthony Brindisi will conduct a survey to collect data on constituents' Internet providers and to test their Internet speed.
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In a collection of Government Technology’s top stories from the past 12 months, we look back on the year that was and take note of the tribulations and transformations in state and local government.
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Travelers will soon have publicly accessible Wi-Fi at service plazas along the Ohio Turnpike thanks to Agile Network Builders, which has announced a new public partnership with a state agency.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has reached a settlement with Sprint and T-Mobile over the companies’ merger, making the state the latest to drop out of a coalition of states in an anti-trust suit.
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Spectrum and its parent company, Charter Communications, have announced a partnership with Lakeland Economic Development Council to provide 1 Gbps broadband throughout a business incubator slated to open in January.
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Last week, a group of Facebook representatives and state officials broke ground on Facebook's fiber Internet project in the state, part of a much larger infrastructure project stretching from Ohio to Virginia.
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The Eugene, Ore., City Council wants to explore expanding EUGNet, downtown's open-access high-speed network, which bolsters business in the city's commercial center, hoping to reach all of the city’s homes and shops.
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Ohio estimates just under 9 percent of its population has no access to broadband Internet, and despite throwing dollars at the problem, rural, older and lower-income Americans still face high costs to cross the digital divide.
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Expanding access to broadband services in rural areas — including large swaths of north central Idaho — should be a top priority for the state’s government, according to Gov. Brad Little’s broadband task force.
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State legislators in California plan to push for measures to require at least 72 hours of backup power at cell towers after phone and Internet service failed during widespread PG&E power outages.
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Funding from Indiana's Next Level Broadband program will support a Mainstream Fiber Networks LLC project to provide broadband to about 2,084 unserved households and 389 unserved businesses in Floyd County.
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The nationwide telecommunications company is comprehensively rebuilding and modernizing the communications infrastructure at Tyndall, which was devastated by Hurricane Michael more than a year ago.
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The reports from phone and internet companies, made available Tuesday, help explain why hundreds of thousands of people lost critical communications tools during Pacific Gas & Electric Co.’s October blackouts.
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