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In the pandemic’s early days, when New York City was the virus’ global epicenter, our city’s public school system supplied hundreds of thousands of students

This week in broadband builds: NTIA awards tribal broadband funding; altafiber to build in Warren County, Ohio; TDS grows in Wisconsin; NYC expands Big Apple Connect - and more.

In January 2020, former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced New York City’s Internet Master Plan, setting a path to deliver broadband for low-income New Yorkers by investing in public fiber infrastructure. The plan was a clear response to the gap created from systemic digital redlining (an industry practice EFF has called for governments to ban) that every American

TestIT uses crowd-sourced, real-time information to track broadband connectivity across the country.

Ten things the NYC mayor got done in his first year – and some of the items he hasn’t followed through on yet.

Invest Newark named Jeet Gulati as general counsel and Aaron Mayerson as chief innovation economy officer and director of broadband.

As the first effort by a large U.S. city to strategize equitable internet access is tabled, the community-based providers that New York City had tapped to build infrastructure have been left high and dry.

After being put on hold in May 2022, the Internet Master Plan has been in a state of limbo as officials map the next steps. Another newly announced undertaking, however, promises to put a dent in the digital divide in the meantime.

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