NTIA Announces BroadbandUSA Effort to assist Communities with Broadband Plans

Comments from NTIA Administrator, Lawrence E. Strickling, published Jan 14, 2015: Over the past five years, we at NTIA have seen first-hand through our broadband grant program the power of broadband to transform lives and impact communities.  Broadband has become a cornerstone of economic growth, providing Americans the tools they need...

OTI Applauds FCC’s Plan to Raise the E-Rate Funding Cap

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced today that it plans to raise the E-rate funding cap by $1.5 billion to help schools and libraries obtain access to affordable, high-speed Internet service. The announcement comes as the FCC prepares to release a second E-rate Modernization Order, the next step in the reform process...

What Is The Cost Of Connectivity IN USA?

A new report from New America’s Open Technology Institute (OTI) finds that customers in the U.S. continue to pay higher prices for slower Internet. Read Report at New America…

Race to gigabit Internet service takes off

With the “irrational exuberance” of the early Internet economy, speculators spent billions laying thousands of miles of fiber optic cable for backhaul, expecting Internet use would continue growing at the unprecedented rates of the late 1990s. As part of the great dot com bust of 2000, however, most of the speculators went...

Iowa Improves Broadband Access

Connect Iowa’s New Broadband Figures Show Availability Increases – http://www.connectednation.org/connect-iowa%E2%80%99s-new-broadband-figures-show-availability-increases

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