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CANTON — The St. Lawrence County Broadband Committee selected a firm to help spend American Rescue Plan Act funding allocated for broadband expansion.
CANTON — The St. Lawrence County Broadband Committee hired a firm to help spend American Rescue Plan Act funding allocated for broadband expansion.
The Development Authority of the North Country is planning a project to improve broadband internet capability in Alexandria Bay, Ogdensburg, Massena, Canton and Gouverneur.
Pandemic highlights broadband gaps in Adirondacks Where corporations fall short, neighbors and smaller companies have gotten inventive Tim Rowland Adirondack Explorer FacebookTwitterEmail Janelle Schwartz works at Craigardan, an Elizabethtown-area nonprofit where employees must ration their use of satellite internet. (Mike Lynch/Adirondack Explorer)Adirondack Explorer ESSEX COUNTY — To Mike Hopmeier, it felt like an old-time country barn-raising. Hopmeier is president of a northern Virginia counterterrorism consulting firm who turned a Cold War thermonuclear missile site in the Adirondack...
Rather than enhance broadband coverage, state mandates imposed upon internet providers will likely suppress efforts to ensure everyone has access. As part of the 2021-22 state budget approved and signed into law last week, lawmakers included a provision that compels internet providers to offer services to eligible low-income families for $15 per month. This applies to companies with at least 20,000 subscribers. âNew York broadband providers are slow to react to the details of a new state program requiring mid-sized and large companies to provide internet service for low-income families f...