NTIA won’t have the broadband map it needs for the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program until 2023
The Federal Communications Commission plans to come out with the first version of its new broadband map in mid-November.
September 2022
Arkansas Uses Capital Projects Fund to Connect Rural Areas
In 2019, Governor Asa Hutchinson (R-AR) laid out a goal of 25 Megabits per second (Mbps) download and 3 Mbps upload broadband deployed to population centers of 500 or more by 2022. Approaching the end of 2022 and the time Arkansas set to achieve its original broadband goals, the state has received new funds through the US Department of Treasury's Capital Projects Fund to help achieve universal connectivity. The April 2022 Arkansas Broadband Master Plan, compiled by the Broadband Develo
NDIA Awards 18 National Digital Navigator Corps Grants in Rural & Tribal Areas
The National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) awarded 18 grants to recipient organizations, who will together launch the National Digital Navigator Corps. The grants are part of support from Google.org, which will go toward hiring community-based digital navigators alongside programmatic and technical support to further develop NDIA’s digital navigator model for rural and Tribal communities. The grants, which total more than $6.6 million, are for two-and-a-half-year periods and range between $320,540 and $389,840 each, depending on the need and proposal. Seven of the grantees are Tribal-le
Lightpath beefs up its fiber network in Connecticut (Fierce)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Wed, 09/07/2022 - 14:18Twitter Ramps Up Fact-Checking Project Ahead of US Midterms (CNET)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Wed, 09/07/2022 - 14:18Cogent to Buy T-Mobile Wireline Business: What’s That? You Ask
Competitive fiber network operator Cogent Communications reached a definitive agreement to buy T-Mobile’s wireline business.
Funding to Bridge the Digital Divide: U.S. Philanthropic Giving to Digital Equity Causes
Analysis demonstrates that philanthropic organizations in the US have given little--less than 1% of overall giving by large foundations--to digital equity funding. Funding barriers may be overcome with greater participation of US institutional philanthropic giving to digital equity. Other key takeaways include: