Rural Communities Archives
11.21.07
Posted By: Speedmatters Web Team
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced it will distribute $417 million over three years in grants to 69 rural telehealth organizations in an effort to connect rural health clinics with high speed Internet. About 6,000 hospitals, research centers, universities and clinics in rural areas will be connected with high speed Internet, which could aid in everything from managing electronic health records to transmitting images and videos of patients to specialists hundreds of miles away for diagnosis. Read More »
11.16.07
Posted By: Speedmatters Web Team
In an effort to extend high speed Internet access state wide, South Carolina has formed The South Carolina Technology and Communications Study Committee to study the existing high speed Internet infrastructure and examine the need for high speed Internet in both unserved and underserved areas. Read More »
11.09.07
Posted By: Speedmatters Web Team
The Alliance for Public Technology has just released a new report, Broadband Initiatives: Enhancing Lives and Transforming Communities, which documents examples of how high speed networks have changed the lives, and saved the lives, of individuals and communities in ways that many of us could not have even imagined 5 years ago. In a short video, Dr. Curtis Lowery, of the ANGELS program in Arkansas, explains how rural women who never would have had access to pre-natal care now can access it locally. Read More »
11.07.07
Posted By: Speedmatters Web Team
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently updated its statistics on high speed Internet connections, drawn from data collected through December 31st, 2006. The data show that broadband buildout is accelerating, but may be hitting a wall in rural areas. Read More »
11.07.07
Posted By: Speedmatters Web Team
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has filed legislation to create a Massachusetts Broadband Institute to extend high speed Internet access to all communities in the state by 2010. Read More »
10.31.07
Posted By: Speedmatters Web Team
On a recent trip to New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton discussed high speed Internet access in her appeal to voters, promising "to expand broadband access in rural areas, create jobs and invest in high-tech industries." Read More »
10.15.07
Posted By: Speedmatters Web Team
Last week, a House of Representatives subcommittee approved important legislation to improve high speed Internet data collection. A few days prior, a Senate committee was hard at work on another piece of legislation that would help close the digital divide. Read More »
10.02.07
Posted By: Speedmatters Web Team
One in 5 Missouri households lack access to high speed internet, according to a recent study by the Missouri Public Service Commission. Outside of the metropolitan areas, 1 in 3 lack access. Read More »
09.24.07
Posted By: Speedmatters Web Team
The Verizon-FairPoint deal would make it extremely unlikely that fiber optic networks, which are the future of telecommunications service, will be built in rural New England. Read More »
09.21.07
Posted By: Speedmatters Web Team
As the 2008 campaign heats up, the CWA Speed Matters team has been making the rounds in Iowa, informing candidates and citizens about the digital divide and the need for universal high speed internet access in the United States. At Senator Tom Harkin's annual Steak Fry in Indianola, Iowa, on September 16, an at-home accountant told our video crew about the disadvantages of living in a community without high-speed internet. Read More »
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