Rural and agricultural advocates should be aware of these issues and discuss them with whoever is constructing the official broadband map and evaluating broadband proposals in their state. The FCC’s ...

Black, Brown, and low-income families have persistently lower broadband adoption rates, but a combination of programs will help narrow the gap.

The failure to deploy rural broadband has become synonymous with excessive bureaucracy. The real story is more complicated.

Better broadband maps will help close the digital divide in rural, urban areas | Opinion Black, Brown, and low-income families have persistently lower broadband adoption rates, but a combination ...

As states are preparing to receive their share of $43 billion in Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment Program funds to expand rural broadband services, provided by Congress in a bill strongly ...

The National Broadband Map, which determines which locations are eligible for Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment funding, missed about 8% of residences and businesses in my county alone.

Fiber being installed in rural Kansas. While the FCC broadband map estimates 5% of the state is unserved, the Kansas Office of Broadband Development estimates it's three times that.

The expanded access to broadband in Marion County is part of a larger effort to reach rural businesses and residents.

Despite the Federal Communications Commission’s map of available consumer broadband at 100 percent across the state, the state’s broadband office argues that rural areas are still left out ...

A screenshot shows a new GIS map unveiled in late September 2022 showing ongoing efforts to expand high-speed broadband internet access to all of rural Washtenaw County.

The map shows which regions are lacking in broadband or mobile internet coverage by percentage.. For example, in parts of the Catskills and Southern Tier, only about 10 to 15% of “units ...