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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During a recent National Telecommunications and Information Administration webinar, experts dissected the economic potential of and roadblocks to precision agriculture technology in rural America.
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Workers have started the process of building out the $2.5 million project that officials hope will make high-speed Internet available to every home and business in the city by the end of next year.
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At UT-Rio Grande Valley, administrators spent a tense summer preparing for the fall semester while local coronavirus rates spiked, the area spiraled into further economic depression and debate raged across the nation about how to safely send college students back to school.
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The Reno County Commission has started a preliminary discussion about running its own fiber optic cables to the landfill and Reno County Public Works building, which has a preliminary cost estimate of about $1 million.
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Farmington Electric Utility System is exploring the feasibility of offering high-speed Internet service to city residents. Officials say the service would benefit customers while providing a new revenue stream.
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In August, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that asked for a report on ongoing and future actions to enhance rural health care. HHS released an 82-page response to the order last week.
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After the district scrambled this summer to provide Internet to families to support its remote learning model, a school panel on Thursday voted to ask city leaders to look into bringing municipal broadband to Worcester.
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It’s troubling to see broadband Internet funding stuck in legislative neutral as the pandemic has created a critical need for strong and widespread Internet connections in Minnesota’s rural areas.
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Pennsylvania Senate Bill 835 creates a government grant program for high-speed broadband Internet providers to expand into rural areas of the state that don’t already have access to reliable networks.
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A recent broadband availability map from the Georgia Department of Community Affairs shows that of the more than 507,000 homes and businesses lacking access to reliable broadband, nearly 70 percent are in rural Georgia.
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The application cycle will close Sept. 17. Applications will be reviewed until funds are exhausted. Grant funds may be used to pay for costs associated with broadband deployment to underserved areas of the state.
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Traverse City, Mich., has agreed to lend $800,000 in economic development funds to the city-owned utility to boost its plans to bring Internet with up to gigabit speeds across a bigger swath of the city.
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Most Sullivan County, N.Y., residents and business owners could get to subscribe to a speedy, new countywide wireless Internet network by late 2023, if the county’s decision-makers have their way.
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More than $50 million worth of broadband expansion projects will start this month in 23 counties around the state to help close the Internet service gap exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Citing glaring deficiencies in reliable Internet in West Virginia, Gov. Jim Justice announced Thursday he is signing an executive order removing a barrier to a high-dollar and “game changer” investment in broadband.
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The mayor of McAllen, Texas, recently conducted an impromptu test of the Wi-Fi system that the city began laying the physical infrastructure for last month, after a five-year effort to get it started.
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Roughly 500,000 people in North Carolina have unreliable Internet, primarily concentrated in impoverished rural areas where service providers see little incentive to build infrastructure needed to connect people.
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Satellite Internet may not have always received the best word of mouth, but the technology continues to advance with big names behind it and a market that has seen significant growth during COVID-19.
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