Chicago Digital Equity Plan
Nearly 172,000 Chicago households (over 15%) don’t have internet at home, and nearly 92,000 (roughly 8%) don’t have any device, including a computer, laptop, tablet, or smart mobile device.
February 2023
Cox Communications acquires cloud services company Logicworks (Cox Communications)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 02/02/2023 - 17:06An overview of the Digital Equity Plan, and next steps to join the Digital Equity Coalition and stay involved
Minnesotans Urged to Play Role in Digital Equity Plan
The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development's Office of Broadband Development (OBD) is developing a digital equity plan to create improvements in internet affordability, access to internet-enabled devices, and ways to provide digital skills training. We want to hear from Minnesotans most impacted by the digital access and skills gap to ensure our digital equity plan reflects the goals and needs of all Minnesotans. This plan will help us determine how to spend federal funding coming in 2024 aimed at increasing digital access and skills.
Smartphone replacements decline, with ripple effects for carriers (Fierce)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Thu, 02/02/2023 - 13:18TikTok’s Transparency Campaign Echoes Effort by Huawei to Ease Security Concerns (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Thu, 02/02/2023 - 13:17Frontier targets 100,000 fiber passings in West Virginia
Frontier Communications’ multi-year fiber expansion roadmap calls for it to ramp deployments to hit 1.6 million new passings in 2023 and it looks like a decent chunk of those will be in West Virginia. The operator unveiled plans to invest $100 million to hit 100,000 additional locations in the state this year alone. The new passings will build on the more than 125,000 Frontier has already built in the state over the past two years.
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Project OVERCOME Report
As a nonprofit dedicated to guiding communities into the connected future, US Ignite partnered with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to design Project OVERCOME to test creative solutions to connect the unconnected. The