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July 2021

Knoxville Utilities Board clears final hurdle to provide broadband internet for customers

Tennessee's Knoxville Utilities Board (KUB) has the green light to provide a public fiber broadband network to its customers. It will be a years-long process to provide 1-gigabit, symmetrical fiber internet service to every customer in KUB's electrical footprint; that's approximately 210,000 households in mostly Knox, Grainger and Union counties. According to KUB's proposal, service would start at about $65 a month and could begin as early as 2022. Service would extend to all of KUB's territory by 2029.

The Future Is in Symmetrical, High-Speed Internet Speeds

Congress is about to make critical decisions about the future of internet access and speed in the United States. It has a potentially once-in-a-lifetime amount of funding to spend on broadband infrastructure, and at the heart of this debate is the minimum speed requirement for taxpayer-funded internet. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the granularity of this debate, but ultimately it boils down to this: cable companies want a definition that requires them to do and give less, one that will not meet our needs in the future.

Rural America doesn’t have good broadband — and needs it

The all-out push in Congress to pass a historic infrastructure bill offers an unprecedented opportunity to bring high-speed internet to unconnected rural areas. It’s a watershed moment for rural America, one that could turbocharge economic development and help reverse long-standing health and education challenges.

Possible solutions to Dallas's internet access problem

Thousands of Dallas students still don’t have access to reliable internet even after a year and a half of depending on online connections to keep learning.

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