Albany Times Union

New state data shows 2.5 percent of New York households lack the ability to hook up to the Internet. More than 132,000 households lack the ability to access broadband in New York. The town of Red House in Cattaraugus County is completely unserved. Twenty-nine towns, six school districts and four of the 10 tribal territories in the state have less than half of their residences with access to broadband. Internet providers warn that government broadband grants may not be able to cover the costs of building the services in locations where there may be fewer than five homes per square mile.

While many Capital Region (NY) residents, from parents to students, can cope with Gov Andrew Cuomo's (D-NY) work and study from home orders amid the COVID-19 crisis, for those with slow or non-existent home internet service, the experience can be downright frustrating. Gina Mintzer, executive director of the Lake George Regional Chamber of Commerce & Convention and Visitors Bureau, says in Adirondack towns where land line internet service is either non-existent or unreliable, parents and students working from home must often rely on their cellular service for internet connections to wor

Charter Communications and the New York Public Service Commission reached a settlement in their long-running feud over expansion of the company's Spectrum network that includes an additional $12 million to finance high-speed internet expansion in the state. The agreement will cost Charter more than $600 million — double the original cost of its required expansion in the state as a result of its 2016 purchase of Time Warner Cable. The deal sets Charter's current network expansion at 64,827 "passings," which means how many new addresses its network can now reach. The company has until Sept.