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The City Council has approved a non-exclusive installation deal with the technology provider, allowing it to install its equipment. Its fiber is now only available in limited areas of Cobb County. -
The endeavor, a new pilot announced Wednesday, aims to deliver no-cost, high-speed Internet across 35 buildings of affordable housing in upper Manhattan and the Bronx. It’s something of a successor to 2022’s Big Apple Connect.
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The new law, which took effect last month without the governor’s signature, is likely to insulate Mainers from shifting federal policy, but not affect their Internet, the lawmaker who sponsored it said.
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Plus, the White House announces $401 million in broadband funding now headed toward rural areas, a strong majority of adults in the U.S. now considers high-speed Internet a necessity, and much more.
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A Denver company, Eucast Global, is introducing “network in a box” technology from South Korea that it claims can bridge the state’s digital divide in a more affordable and robust way than alternatives on the market.
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Since pausing expansion efforts in 2016, Google Fiber has slowly resumed adding new cities and even has plans to add some more this year. But why did it pause, and which cities will get the high-speed service next?
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Digital equity advocates say this may be the single largest dispersion of federal grant money to one local-level organization in the space, and as such, it may serve as a model for others going forward.
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Plus, Michigan's high-speed Internet office has hired its first chief connectivity officer, the Biden administration earmarks $10 million grants to expand broadband to minority communities, and more.
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More than 66,000 Louisiana homes and businesses are in line to get faster Internet, funded by the first round of GUMBO Grants to build broadband infrastructure in Louisiana's underserved areas, officials have announced.
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Fewer than 20 percent of eligible New Jersey households have taken advantage of federal government subsidies to help them afford high-speed Internet connections, the White House said Thursday
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Plus, New Mexico has a new leader for its state broadband team; Baltimore is restructuring its digital equity work; FCC leadership is proposing an increase for minimum broadband speeds; and more.
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As a historic amount of money for broadband and digital equity comes down from the federal government to the states, we take a look at some of what's happening in Michigan, New York and Virginia.
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A new-to-the-market Internet service provider says it is ready to reach into even the most underserved parts of New Mexico’s largest city through a new licensing agreement with the local government there.
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Billions of dollars in federal assistance could help bring high-speed Internet service to thousands of Wisconsin households, according to a new report, but not without continued help and funding from the state.
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Yuba County officials have partnered with SiFi Networks to bring a new fiber-optics network to the rural towns of Linda, Olivehurst and Plumas Lake. The project is expected to decrease Internet costs.
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From satellite Internet to ground-station-as-a-service, space tech is a big — and increasingly well-funded — deal that's poised to have a big impact on state and local government.
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The western Massachusetts law enforcement agency is without telephone and Internet service at all of its facilities following an unknown communications issue that began over the holiday weekend, officials said.
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There’s a long history of effective public-sector infrastructure investments and services being implemented in the region — programs some conservatives might deride as socialism — and working exceedingly well.
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Plus, Texas creates a new division that will oversee the Broadband Development Office, the federal government has awarded nearly $7.7 million to tribal groups developing community broadband plans, and more.
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The newly formed Latah County Broadband Coalition in Idaho hopes that even residents who live in the most remote areas of the county will have access to high-speed Internet in the future.
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The recent American Library Association Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., saw a gathering of librarians and the companies that sell them tech products for their work, some of which provide a glimpse of the future.
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