FCC project will bring high-speed internet to rural Missouri, Kansas
FCC funding hopes to bridge digital divide in Johnson County rural areas
and last updated 2021-03-05 23:38:54-05
KANSAS CITY, Mo. â A new project will help bridge the rural digital divide and bring high-speed internet to thousands of people in rural Missouri and Kansas.
The FCC awarded 17 companies in Missouri and 12 companies in Kansas grants from the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund to take on the project.
Charter Communications, which includes Spectrum, was awarded the most locations and will provide internet to 61,000 locations in Missouri. This could be huge for our community, Tracy Brantner with the Johnson County (Missouri) Economic Development Corporation said. It s such a positive impact on Johnson County. Citizens are able to access the digital network they weren t able to access before.
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05 March 2021 | Natalie Bannerman Windstream has submitted its application to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) Phase I auction to receive $147 million in funding.
Delivered over a 10-year period, Windstream has said it will use the funds to deliver fibre-to-the-home broadband services to more than 48,000 locations in that state of Georgia.
“This is an exciting opportunity to further expand our fibre network in Georgia, enabling us to bring gigabit-speed broadband to rural communities that would have been too expensive to serve without a public-private partnership,” said Michael Foor (pictured), Windstream’s vice president of state government affairs in Georgia.
SpaceX successfully launched another 60 Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center early Thursday. This is the 20th batch of satellites that SpaceX has put into orbit since the project began and the 5th successful launch since the beginning of the year. This particular mission,
House Technology and Infrastructure Chair Daniel Linville, R- Cabell, explains House Bill 2002 for broadband.
The West Virginia House of Delegates voted Wednesday to advance legislation to address the state’s broadband woes.
House Bill 2002 includes numerous provisions for broadband deployment, consumer protections and accountability of companies that receive public funding.
It’s not the West Virginia Legislature’s first broadband bill. In the last five years, state lawmakers have created a Broadband Enhancement Council, a ‘dig once’ policy for installing broadband infrastructure and a middle-mile expansion program.
But the bill’s lead sponsor, Del. Daniel Linville, said the legislation comes at an important time as the coronavirus pandemic has made the country more dependent on the internet for day-to-day tasks like school, work, medical appointments and even grocery shopping.
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 her kids with Chromebooks when the pandemic hit last year, but they’re at the mercy of internet bandwidth that can’t handle the load at home. So, her kids had to use their phones for school.