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Shoring Up the Unserved in Talbot County, Maryland (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Thu, 07/21/2022 - 12:23A Plan for Middle and Last-Mile Comes Together in York County, Pennsylvania (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Tue, 07/19/2022 - 13:35Podcast | A Movement to Mend Digital Inequities (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Thu, 07/14/2022 - 12:13
Tracking Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Winners
The Federal Communications Commission’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) is still in the process of authorizing bids from its $9.2 billion auction conducted in December 2020. Areas for which winning bids are authorized will have a much harder time going after Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program funding.
Big List of American Rescue Plan Community Broadband Projects Hits 250 (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 06/09/2022 - 14:09The Fate of the Affordable Connectivity Program
The White House made much ado of an announcement that it had secured commitments from a collection of large Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to adjust speed tiers and monthly costs for their existing plans so as to be able to offer a $30/month, minimum 100 megabit per second (Mbps) download offering for low-income households across the country.
Podcast: Lessons on Retail and Wholesale Broadband Models from Europe, Asia, and the US (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Wed, 05/11/2022 - 12:04Biden Administration Celebrates Telecom Companies Undermining His Agenda (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Mon, 05/09/2022 - 11:34The United State(s) of Broadband
Tens of billions of dollars in federal funding are poised for new broadband infrastructure deployment over the next five years. But a crucial step in allocating funds from the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program - for states and local governments - lies in knowing where fast, affordable, reliable broadband access currently is, so that they know where to drive new investment.