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Michigan will receive funding to put toward making Broadband available in more rural areas of the state. Service will be developed over the next five years.

Senator Highlights Energy, Disaster Assistance, Rural Broadband at West River

Senator Highlights Energy, Disaster Assistance, Rural Broadband at West River

Under Broadband Data Collection program all facilities-based providers of fixed and mobile broadband Internet access services will be required to submit broadband data on a biannual basis. the initial filing window is between June 30, 2022, and September 1, 2022.

Reintroduced Senate Bill May Boost Rural Broadband Investing The goal is to provide state and local governments options in financing broadband projects, including the issuance of tax-exempt bonds, public-private partnerships, federal tax credits and bond payment assistance. May 19, 2021 •  (TNS) — Local and regional broadband projects may get a boost from Washington based on a bipartisan effort led by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R- W.Va. Capito and Sen. ...

Listen • 4:59 The problem for many families in Ashtabula County isn’t that they don’t have internet, it’s that they don’t have or cannot afford speeds that can handle the load of several children learning at home at once. The COVID-19 pandemic has spotlighted an issue that Ohio’s rural communities have been struggling with for years: the lack of adequate broadband service. It’s particularly affected education in parts of the state like Ashtabula County. Some p...

Originally published on March 4, 2021 5:53 am The COVID-19 pandemic has spotlighted an issue that Ohio’s rural communities have been struggling with for years: the lack of adequate broadband service. It’s particularly affected education in parts of the state like Ashtabula County. Some parents say their kids have fallen behind simply because they can’t get online from home. At the mercy of bandwidth Jennifer Jerman is a single mom of four. She says Ashtabula Area City Schools provided h...

Photo credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images/Bloomberg. Last week, Chairman Ajit Pai led his last public open meeting, capping off almost a decade of service at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Hailing from Kansas, as the son of immigrant parents from India, Pai has been known as a fan of The Big Lebowski and enjoying his coffee in large Reeses mugs. In addition to oversized mugs, he also brought big ideas to the FCC that provided much needed agency reform and progress toward the goal o...

Middle-East Arab News and Opinion - Asharq Al-Awsat is the world’s premier pan-Arab daily newspaper, printed simultaneously each day on four continents in 14 cities

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Last year was painful for many. Along with those who lost loved ones to Covid-19, perhaps no one felt that pain more than the essential worker, the low-income single parent, the isolated, the marginalized. Often they were the same person.