Neighbors Providing Service to Neighbors: Vermont’s Approach to Community Broadband
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
June 2024
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The Internet’s Final Frontier: Remote Amazon Tribes
The Marubo people have long lived in communal huts scattered hundreds of miles along the Ituí River deep in the Amazon rainforest. They have preserved this way of life for hundreds of years through isolation — some villages can take a week to reach. But since September, the Marubo have had high-speed internet thanks to Elon Musk. The 2,000-member tribe is one of hundreds across Brazil that are suddenly logging on with Starlink, the satellite-internet service from Space X.
Statements on the end of Affordable Connectivity Program
“It is incredibly disappointing and just plain shameful that one of the most successful bipartisan programs to close the digital divide has lapsed. Every Congressional district in the country had constituents benefiting from this program, and still, Congress failed to deliver the funding needed to ensure that over 23 million households won’t lose connectivity. While the efforts made by the program's most ardent supporters in both Chambers were commendable, the resulting lapse of ACP makes it clear that the Congressional appropriations process is ill-suited for funding affordable broadband.
FCC seeks comment on Conexon Connect application to be a Lifeline-only Eligible Telecommunications Carrier in Florida (Federal Communications Commission)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 06/03/2024 - 15:33How to Address Children’s Online Safety in the United States (Information Technology & Innovation Foundation)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 06/03/2024 - 15:29California Department of Technology RFP Seeks Middle-Mile Broadband Initiative Operators (California Department of Technology)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 06/03/2024 - 15:22How to Build a Public Broadband Network: Building and Operating the Network
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Part three of a series on public broadband, by the American Association for Public Broadband and the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society.
Community-based Broadband Providers Propose Merger to Expand Access to High-speed Internet
NEK Broadband and CVFiber announce a preliminary plan to join the two Communications Union Districts (CUDs). The proposed merger would unite resources, experience, expertise, and a shared commitment to deliver exceptional high-speed internet services to their collective 71 communities. Working together, they will be better able to support digital equity, economic growth, and community development across the Northeast Kingdom and Central Vermont.