FCC Efforts Help Rural Ohio County Expand Broadband Access
As part of the FCC’s effort to provide broadband service in rural areas across the country, Ohio is slated to receive $170 million during the first phase of the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund program. by Malcolm Hall, The Repository / January 25, 2021 Shutterstock/Jer123
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Carroll County, Ohio, is receiving $4.1 million to bring high-speed broadband service into more rural areas of the county.
It s part of the
Federal Communications Commission s effort to provide broadband service in rural areas across the country.
Ohio is slated to receive $170 million during the first phase of the
The FCC s recent Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I auction came in below expectations and will provide money to fresh faces. President Biden will need to decide whether that s good or bad.
Access to high-speed broadband internet is coming to an additional 3,066 locations in Somerset County and 3,557 locations in Cambria County.
The improvements are a result of the Federal Communications Commissionâs Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I auction. The results were announced Dec. 7 by the federal agency.
Windstream Services and the Space Exploration Technologies Corp. were awarded funding of more than $2.8 million and $2.3 million, respectively, to expand broadband service in Cambria County. Space Exploration Technologies Corp. was awarded just more than $5 million to expand broadband service in Somerset County.
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How SpaceX Can Help Boost Upstate New York Internet Speeds
SpaceX recently won $886 million in subsidies from the Federal Communications Commission to build out its satellite Internet called Starlink to 642,925 new potential customers in 35 states, including New York. by Larry Rulison, Times Union / December 21, 2020 Shutterstock/Andrey VP
Elon Musk
, the outspoken inventor and technology investor who started
Tesla and
SpaceX recently won $886 million in subsidies from the
Federal Communications Commission to build out its satellite internet broadcast system called Starlink to 642,925 new potential customers in 35 states, including
New York.
While Musk talks about sending astronauts to Mars via
SpaceX, much of the company s current missions are designed to launch satellites that will power the Startlink service, which is being marketed as a low-cost, high-speed internet service for the masses,