Florida Archives
02.23.10
Posted By: Speedmatters Blog Team
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke recently announced the latest round of economic stimulus awards totaling $357 million for expanded high-speed Internet access. Nine states received record funding for broadband expansion. Nine states - California, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Wisconsin - received funding from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Read More »
01.05.10
Posted By: Speedmatters Blog Team
Between December 22 and December 31, The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced an additional twenty broadband mapping and planning grants in eighteen states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Read More »
08.05.09
Posted By: Speedmatters Blog Team
In 2007, one half of all Floridians did not subscribe to high-speed Internet. For a state now in severe economic turmoil, slow Internet is only making the problem worse.
We've written before about how expanded broadband offers a plethora of economy-boosting benefits. Read on to learn how high-speed internet can bring Floridians the bump their economy needs and how the stimulus bill is making that a reality. Read More »
04.28.09
Posted By: Speedmatters Blog Team
Experts from all corners of the Southeast United States gathered at Benedict College earlier this month to discuss the state of broadband in their states and ways to further their interests. Read More »
11.14.08
Posted By: Speedmatters Web Team
A comprehensive new report released last month found that online learning for students in grades K-12 grew steadily last year, with many states expanding their online opportunities for supplemental and full-time online class work. Read More »
08.12.08
Posted By: Speedmatters Web Team
Speed Matters has released our second Read More »
07.17.08
Posted By: Speedmatters Web Team
Recently the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) unanimously passed a resolution for high speed Internet deployment on a national level, calling on the Bush Administration, the U.S. Congress and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to work together to develop a policy that makes high speed Internet access a national priority. Read More »
10.23.07
Posted By: Speedmatters Web Team
Even in the state of Florida, which is among the fastest of all states in terms of high speed Internet, about half of the state's population does not have high speed Internet access, leaving some Floridians frustrated and stuck with dial-up Internet. The Anschutz family, for example, lives in an area that is considered "too far out" to get high speed Internet service. Read More »
06.26.07
Posted By: Speedmatters Web Team
Thanks to our 80,000 Speed Testers, the Speed Matters Campaign has been making waves around the country. On Monday we released a state-by-state report and interactive map on U.S. internet speeds based on the test results. Read More »
06.25.07
Posted By: Speedmatters Web Team
More than 80,000 people have taken the Speed Matters Speed Test to learn the actual speed of their internet connections. We've used the results of all those speed tests to create the first-ever state-by-state report on internet speeds across America. Our findings were deeply troubling. Read More »
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