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A Benton Institute for Broadband & Society publication, commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the Telecommunications Act of 1996

How states worked with Tribal Nations in the BEAD Program

The Digital Equity Act (DEA) of 2021, a part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), establishes programs that aim to ensure that all people “have the skills, technology, and capacity needed to reap the full benefits of our digital economy.” Identifying older adults (those 60 years

The historic levels of funding made available through the bipartisan Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program will generate historic levels of construction—and this will put enormous pressure on local governments.

This report highlights how the early collective efforts of residents in east-central Vermont helped make Communications Union Districts (CUDs) a statewide, scalable strategy for ensuring locally driven connectivity today.

Affordability, Adoption, Equity, and the United States’s Universal Broadband Goals

This report follows the journey of five rural counties in Illinois (Edgar, Hancock, McLean, Ogle, and Schuyler) that enrolled in the Broadband Breakthrough community engagement and broadband planning program and used the resources and open-source tools the program provides to pursue a better broa

This white paper examines wireless technologies capable of providing broadband connectivity with an emphasis on rural farming communities.

For community leaders striving for digital equity, this guidebook will help communities evaluate and meet specific connectivity needs.

As state and local governments and their partners plan to invest billions of dollars in federal funding to build broadband infrastructure, choosing the best technology will have significant long-term implications.