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The bipartisan legislation would give local and state governments new financing options for broadband projects.
Senate legislation introduced Tuesday would provide states, cities and towns new ways to finance rural broadband projects and new tools to ensure all Americans have access to broadband internet.
The Rural Broadband Financing Flexibility Act, introduced by Sens. Shelley Moore Capito, R-VW, and Maggie Hassan, D-NH, would permit state and local governments to issue tax-exempt bonds to finance broadband projects in partnership with the private sector.
The bill would also create a federal tax credit states and local governments could opt to direct toward rural broadband projects and ensure each state receives up to $25 million in bonding authority annually.
Abigail Spanberger is encouraging eligible Central Virginians to enroll in the Federal Communications Commission’s Emergency Broadband Benefit program.
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RoboKiller Launches Call Confidence API for Enterprise Robocall Mitigation
New robocall prevention technology helps businesses of all sizes fight against spam calls.
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NEW YORK, May 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Teltech Systems, makers of the award-winning robocall blocker app RoboKiller, today announced its launch of RoboKiller s new enterprise robocall prevention technology:
Call Confidence API. With this release, businesses of all sizes can now tap into the same call blocking algorithms that have protected over one million Americans from over $150 million in financial losses due to phone fraud.
RoboKiller s Call Confidence API empowers businesses of all sizes to join the fight against robocalls by strengthening their network s defenses against illegal (and dangerous) phone scammers. The Call Confidence API will use the same machine-learning technology consumers love and trust to power robocall mitigation for businesses who m
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For many Americans, stimulus checks were the immediate focal point of the federal government’s $900 billion coronavirus relief package passed in December 2020. But the package included some other helpful programs, too.
One of them, as Kiplinger reports, is the Federal Communications Commission’s $3.2 billion Emergency Broadband Benefit Program. Basically, the government is recognizing that the pandemic has forced work, school, doctor’s appointments, and other vital activities to happen completely online, and internet access has become more of a necessity than ever before. To ease the financial strain, the FCC will cover at least $50 of your monthly internet bill if you qualify for the program (and if your service provider is one of the 800 or so providers that agreed to participate). That minimum sum rises to $75 if you live on certain Tribal lands. And you can also claim $100 to buy a new laptop, desktop computer, or tablet.