The company needs to be designed as an Eligible Telecommunications Carrier to promote the Lifeline option, it said.

The NTIA’s Internet Use Survey doesn’t delve deeply enough into why people choose not to adopt broadband.

The new guidelines specify that only subscribers of 100 * 20 Mbps service will have speed tests accepted.

The letter follows calls to drop the credit rule that it said could shut out smaller ISPs from funding.

Maine is one of the first states to submit its plan to the NTIA, following Delaware.

Mississippi will receive $151 million from Treasury’s Capital Projects Fund.

Treasury announced funding awards through the Capital Projects Fund for broadband and community development projects.

If managed effectively, the BEAD program could play a key role in allowing our economy to weather the storms ahead.

National Telecommunications and Information Administration announces news on its ‘Internet for All’ web portal for three IIJA programs.

Verizon said accelerated access to C-band spectrum will allow it to get 5G to customers faster.

Remote work and learning during the pandemic compelled some lawmakers to get creative in expanding broadband availability. In Delaware and Alabama, state officials earmarked parts of their CARES Act funding to create broadband vouchers—monthly service rebates—for households with school-age children.

There has been a huge amount of hype in the United States about being in a race with the Chinese over the deployment of 5G. But after seeing a recent South Korean news article, from the ChosunILBO, concluding that the Chinese 5G experiment might end up an economic bust, Doug Dawson, in a blog post [

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