It was initially viewed as a "once in a lifetime" funding effort, a moonshot geared toward connecting all Americans to the Internet after the COVID-19 pandemic revealed the extent of the digital divide in the US.
On March 26, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in "FCC v. Consumers' Research", the case that could determine the future of the Universal Service Fund (USF). The SHLB Coalition is a named party in the case and has filed briefs seeking to preserve funding for the E-Rate and Rural Health Care programs.
The Court will consider whether to support the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision finding the USF to be unconstitutional or to uphold the decisions in the Sixth and Eleventh Circuits finding no constitutional problem.
Conexon Connect, the internet service provider formed by rural fiber broadband leader Conexon, continues to extend access to high-speed internet across rural America.
unWired Broadband, a leading high-speed Internet provider in California, announced today it has begun construction on its state-of-the-art NextGen Fiber Internet network in Gustine, CA. This multi-million dollar project will deliver Internet speeds up to 5 Gbps and beyond to the entire City of Gustine, totaling nearly 2,500 addresses.
Artificial Intelligence systems designed to predict the likelihood of a hospitalized patient dying largely aren't detecting worsening health conditions, according to a new study. Some machine learning models trained exclusively on existing patient data didn't recognize about 66 percent of injuries that could lead to patient death in the hospital, according to the research published in Nature's Communications Medicine journal. Researchers
Minnesota’s push to bring high-speed internet to every corner of the state could hit a roadblock.
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