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How States Are Using Broadband Surveys to Fight for Better Funding
August 7, 2020/

It’s well known that the Federal Communications Commission’s Form 477 data, which helps direct billions of dollars, overestimates high-speed Internet access. But this data can be challenged if a state can show with another set of data that a local area lacks sufficient broadband service.
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Broadband News and Updates – National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s National Broadband Availability Map Hits New Milestones – Why Isn’t Montana Participating?
With this addition, the NBAM is another step closer to creating a national platform that can help inform policymakers and expand Internet coverage across the United States.
CBS Sunday Morning – The great broadband divide: Living without high-speed internet access – Not Enough Competition
“What the FCC says is, if you can serve one person in a census block, that means you’re serving everybody in the census block.”
We have a crisis on our hands. ‘Close the Divide’ aims to provide Idaho’s low-income students with laptops, internet ahead of school year
200,000 Idaho students need computers by August. How many in your state and what is being done about it?






