Tag: Rural
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Why Does The FCC Need to Help Bring High Speed Internet to Rural America?
The FCC recently announced plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to bring high-speed Internet to rural America. This raised the question from our readers on why this is so hard and why does the government have to spend tax dollars to bring internet to rural America. One of the main issues with offering…
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The FCC Plans Spend $20.4 Billion To Expand Broadband Internet to 4 Million Rural Americans
Today the FCC announced plans to spend $20.4 billion on efforts to bring broadband to 4 million rural American homes. To do this the FCC is creating a new Rural Digital Opportunity Fund. This new Rural Digital Opportunity Fund will be used to help roll out infrastructure to rural Americans in peroration for 5G technologies according…
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The House Introduces Four New Broadband Bills to Speed Up Rural Internet Deployment
This has been a busy week for rural broadband. So far the FCC has announced plans for $500 million in new spending on rural broadband, and now the House has announced four new bills to promote its development. The following are short synopses of the bills: Inventory of Assets for Communications Facilities Act of 2018: Sponsored…
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Microsoft Creates “Connect Americans Now” to Push for Rural Broadband
Over the last few years Microsoft has quietly pushed for rural broadband by using TV’s white space spectrum to build fixed wireless Internet services in several states. Now with their Connect Americans Now push Microsoft is hoping to “ensure that there is sufficient unlicensed low band spectrum in every market in the country to enable…