High speed Internet, demands for alternative energy, and growing global markets are dynamic forces in today's world that hold promise for rural America if they can be harnessed properly, according to Thomas Dorr, the undersecretary for rural development for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Dorr highlighted these possibilities during the South Carolina Agricultural Summit on November 27th. Read More »
For the first time, a federal advisory board has recommended that $300 million of the Universal Service Fund be dedicated to high speed Internet support. While this is an important breakthrough, $300 million is not enough to address the problem of rural high speed Internet access. Read More »
The Hawaii state government recently launched the Hawaii Broadband Task Force, a new initiative that will examine the state's current high speed Internet capacity and its future potential. Read More »
A new study by the Sacramento Regional Research Institute on behalf of AT&T, shows a "strong correlation between broadband growth in California and the number of new jobs available, forecasting that even small increases in broadband use could substantially affect the state over the next 10 years." Read More »
A new study by Nemertes, an independent research firm, predicts that without substantial increases in infrastructure build-out, the Internet will suffer from the digital equivalent of traffic gridlock by 2010. The study is the first to project the future growth of Internet use and compare it with current plans to expand capacity. Read More »
Speed Matters has just unveiled a brand new Speed Test widget that you can embed on your web site, blog, social networking profile, or wherever else you like. Read More »
Researchers in Japan have developed a new method of data transmission that can transfer "hundreds of terabits per second." This means the connection would be so fast that HD movies could be downloaded in seconds. With a connection of 200 kbps -- the current American definition of high speed Internet -- downloading a movie can take more than six hours. Read More »
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 »
Last week the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved a bill that would encourage federal agencies to allow workers to make greater use of telecommuting. Read More »
Telemedicine, made possible with high speed Internet access, has been found to improve treatment of different types of eye diseases, according to the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Read More »
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