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The failure to deploy rural broadband has become synonymous with excessive bureaucracy. The real story is more complicated.
In Pennsylvania, an estimated 255,000 homes and businesses can’t get internet access at broadband speeds, state data show.
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The growing Texas economy looks to be increasingly dependent on the future of new technologies - and shrinking the digital divide that’s kept so many at arm’s length from those opportunities. At least ...
Millions of Americans who have waited decades for fast internet connections will keep waiting after the Trump administration ...
A Trump administration reworking of a $42 billion broadband expansion program will trigger delays as millions of rural Americans wait for promised connections and the telehealth services they bring.
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau approved Verizon’s $20 billion acquisition of Frontier, enabling the wireless operator to take on the emerging fiber broadband leader AT&T. Verizon Fios ...
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With FCC approval, ... and fiber is already expected to be de-emphasized in favor of satellite in the $42.5 billion (Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment) program." ...
This is the first of several planned blogs on the recently released NTIA BEAD Restructuring Policy Notice (“Notice”). In ...