Funding
State Broadband Leaders Emphasize Planning, Community Involvement: Connected America Conference
While waiting for grant funding, state broadband leaders should work to engage and educate local communities.
Infrastructure
Broadband Breakfast Panelists Pitch Solutions for Finer Broadband Mapping Data
Experts argue for significant changes in order for broadband mapping efforts to be successful.
BBLO
Local Communities Are Essential to Improving Internet Mapping, Say Broadband Breakfast Experts
February 3, 2021 – Gathering data at the community level is key to improving broadband mapping, industry experts said during Wednesday’s Broadband Breakfast Live Online event on the need for state and local engagement to improve broadband mapping. “Accurate data is important to mapping.” said Peggy
Expert Opinion
Brian Mefford: A Radical and Realistic Approach to Rural Broadband Mapping
When America built our railroads and highways, paper maps were updated continuously with feedback from the edge of the networks that provided regular status updates. When reports of obstacles were relayed (go through a mountain or around it, as an example) then strategists, managers, builders, polic
Broadband Live
Broadband Breakfast Live Online on Wednesday, February 3, 2021 — Mapping the Rural Broadband Buildout
See “Local Communities Are Essential to Improving Internet Mapping, Say Broadband Breakfast Experts,” Broadband Breakfast, February 3, 2021 Our Broadband Breakfast Live Online events take place every Wednesday at 12 Noon ET. You can watch the February 3, 2021, event on this page. You can also PARTIC
Broadband Mapping and Data
Connected Nation Exchange Launches North America Broadband Partnership with Macquarie Capital
Broadband Breakfast Insight: Connected Nation has taken its broadband mapping skills from the State Broadband Initiative and pivoted into translated that expertise into knowledge for infrastructure deployment on the local level.-> COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 11, 2016. /PRNewswire/ — Speaking at the 2016 Sm
Broadband Mapping and Data
Connected Nation and BroadbandCensus.com to Debate in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS, October 1, 2009 – Top officials from Connected Nation, BroadbandCensus.com and One Economy will discuss key issues in broadband data and mapping – including controversial questions about public disclosure of carrier information on broadband maps – here on Thursday.
Broadband Mapping and Data
NTIA Details Contacts With Legislators, States, Mapping Companies and Others
WASHINGTON, April 27, 2009 – Officials at the agency responsible for crafting the federal government’s broadband stimulus policies held 36 meetings meeting over the past two months – 17 with federal legislators, 11 with private companies and non-profit groups, and eight with state and city officials
FCC
Legislators See 'Underserved' Definition as First Step for Broadband Stimulus
WASHINGTON, April 5, 2009 – Proper oversight of the $7.2 billion Broadband Technology Opportunities Program can only take place if key terms are defined properly, a panel of agency officials and policy experts told a congressional committee on Thursday.
Broadband Mapping and Data
Gates Foundation Grants $7 Million to Connected Nation and American Library Association
WASHINGTON, December 19 – Connected Nation and the American Library Association will receive a $7 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in a broadband initiative designed to improve internet connections in public libraries, the foundation said Thursday.
