Broadband & Network
-
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.
-
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.
More Stories
-
Gov. Jared Polis ordered the creation of Colorado's Broadband Advisory Board last week. The board is intended to enhance interagency collaboration and collect information on digital inclusion and literacy.
-
While many cities have embraced the benefits of the next-generation network, others have pulled away for one reason or another. Many customers seem unaware of the benefits of 5G despite its current hype.
-
Residents of Garfield County, Idaho, should have access to high-speed Internet by the end of the year, with Zero DB Communications, a Spokane telecommunications company, slated to finish the installation work.
-
Orangeburg County, S.C., is currently continuing to place broadband infrastructure on its main thoroughfares, but the problem remains that it simply does not reach all of the area’s residents.
-
Nationwide, students in low-income households are less likely than their peers to have high-speed Internet connections at home, a problem education leaders and researchers call the 'homework gap.'
-
K-12 Connect is a new program in South Dakota that will provide free Internet service to eligible families of K-12 students for the remainder of the school year, Gov. Kristi Noem announced Tuesday.
-
SpaceX, having already established a formidable reputation in rocket launches, is starting to roll out what it hopes will be an even more muscular arm of its business: broadband Internet service.
-
Despite close proximity to high-tech companies, some within Oklahoma City limits are without the high-speed connections afforded to their neighbors. ISPs say connecting some of the communities would be too expensive.
-
Over the summer, high school volunteers for the nonprofit organization HumanWho virtually taught 10 different subjects, including robotics, entrepreneurship, premed immersion, and other STEM subjects.
-
The legislation, which would loosen restrictions for electric cooperatives to offer broadband service, was approved unanimously in both legislative chambers last Wednesday before being sent to Gov. Tom Wolf’s desk.
-
Remote learning will quietly hit an important milestone in the Buffalo Public Schools this week after the school district reaches its goal of distributing a laptop or tablet to every student.
-
A bill is ready for Gov. Tom Wolf's signature that would boost broadband in the state's rural areas by loosening restrictions on electric cooperatives' ability to attach broadband units to existing utility poles.
-
Land O'Lakes and Microsoft joined forces over the summer to address, among other issues, the rural broadband gap. The two organizations, along with other partners, just released a Wi-Fi access point map.
-
2020 put all states to the test as they moved to deliver more services online than ever before. Leading states had laid the groundwork with strong as-a-service platforms and pivoted quickly to take on new challenges.
-
After months of being stuck at home, many Americans know full well that there are three things they can't live without. Two of them are power and water, and the third, as is now clear, is Internet access.
-
Burlington, Wash., is offering businesses free installation to connect to its high-speed fiber optic network after the city got a $250,000 economic development grant to help businesses cover fiber installation.
-
One of every five households in Essex County, Mass., does not have a computer or access to an Internet connection, a digital divide that has been unmasked by the pandemic, according to a new report.
-
The Tupelo, Miss., Public School District recently received nearly 1,000 laptops that are slated to be sorted and distributed to all of the elementary schools across the district by Dec. 1, worth roughly $432 per laptop.
Most Read
