Earlier this week, the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Alliance for Public Technology (APT) co-sponsored a fascinating webcast based on a new joint report from the APT and CWA on current state efforts to expand high speed Internet access. Read More »
A new telemedicine program was recently launched in all 17 schools in the Sevier Country, Tennessee school district that significantly improves the capabilities of the school nurse. Read More »
A recent article in Business Week provided an excellent look at the extent of the digital divide for Americans in rural regions. It starts with a story about Sandra Thornton, whose custom-uniform manufacturing plant in Centerville, Tennessee, is missing out on business opportunities because it can't take advantage of online contract bidding, supply ordering, and email with its dial-up Internet connection. Read More »
Speed Matters has released our second Read More »
High speed Internet adoption in Tennessee has grown 16 percent in the last six months, twice that of the rest of the nation, which grew on average 8 percent, according to Connected Tennessee. Additionally, 50 percent of Tennesseans now have high speed Internet at home, and 64 percent of the state's businesses are connected, according to a recent study. Six months ago, just 43 percent of Tennessee residents had high speed at home, and 55 percent of businesses were connected, according to the same study. Read More »
Connected Tennessee recently unveiled Computers 4 Kids, a program to distribute computers free of charge to children from low-income families. Read More »
A new telecom franchising bill in the Tennessee state legislature contains a provision to encourage service providers to expand high speed Internet deployment across the state - with a particular focus on underserved areas. In order to receive a statewide franchise, incumbent providers would have to meet certain build-out requirements. Read More »
Connected Tennessee has released a county-by-county report of average Internet speeds. The report was gathered with data gathered from 86,000 people over all 95 counties in Tennessee, including data collected by SpeedMatters. Read More »
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 »
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 »
