The effort to improve our data on high speed internet access suffered a blow recently when the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied a lawsuit filed by the Center for Public Integrity seeking zip-code-by-zip-code data from the FCC on high speed connections. Read More »
The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission fired back about the proposed Verizon-FairPoint merger with 11 recommendations to the make the deal "in the public good." Read More »
101-year-old Allan Miller of Kingston, Jamaica, uses his computer daily to read and write e-mails, play games, and to talk to his daughter in the United States via instant messaging. Read More »
During a recent meeting in Little Rock, Federal Communications Commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein and Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor joined rural advocates and educators to hail the Universal Service Fund as a route to bring high speed Internet access to rural areas. Read More »
Alabama Governor Bob Riley has shown that he understands high speed internet can have huge impacts on all of those aspects of society. A key goal of the new Rural Action Commission is improving and expanding high speed internet access. Read More »
Online education services like Tutor.com are great examples of the importance of high speed internet access. Without high speed internet, students are left with few options--particularly if they are from low-income families and cannot afford costly personal tutoring services. Read More »
Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle has unveiled a major economic development plan for the rural northern part of the state. In doing so, Doyle has shown that he understands the importance of high speed internet for rural communities' economic growth. Read More »
Rural America is being left out of the digital age, with major consequences for families and businesses. Read More »
Thanks to a novel effort in New Mexico, traditional Navajo dwellings called hogans will be plugged into the digital age with high speed internet access. Read More »
Verizon West Virginia announced that it will provide funding for a statewide map of current high speed internet deployment and that it is speeding up deployment of high speed internet service in rural West Virginia. Read More »
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