Next Generation Broadband in Montana

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Opinion: Time is right to expand access to high-speed internet service (broadband) in Montana

Now is the time to make sure that all Montanans have access to broadband. Access to high-speed internet service will improve our quality of life and expanding opportunities for residents, no matter where they may live in this vast and remarkable state.

Montana State Library Hot Spot Lending Program

Every public and tribal college library in Montana is eligible to receive hot spots that they can use as they choose to help their communities.

So many people don’t have internet — and it’s not their fault

The pandemic has proven that consistent access to high-speed internet is an essential good.

SpaceX has been selling Starlink dishes at loss despite $499 price tag

It initially cost the company $3,000 to produce each satellite dish, according to CNBC. 

Wisconsin fiber optic company TDS Metrocom meets with Billings officials, plans to compete with Spectrum

TDS is currently building a fiber optic network in Spokane, Washington and Coeur De Alene, Idaho. If Billings grants approval, it would be the first city in Montana to get fiber optic telecom lines, something council members see as a future selling point.

USDA Seeks Applications for Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grants

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that it is accepting applications for Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) program grants to help provide educational and medical services in rural areas.

Video – Testing Elon Musk’s Starlink: Is It Really a Rural Internet Game Changer?

WSJ spent time with a few beta testers in a very remote area of Washington state to see if it’s truly the solution to the global broadband gap.

Broadband for all: Inside President Biden’s $100 billion plan to improve internet access

It would spend $100 billion to “future-proof” broadband as part of an eight-year infrastructure plan, calling high-speed connections “the new electricity” that’s now a necessity for all Americans.

Seven Communities Tapped as Broadband Expansion Testbeds

A partnership among US Ignite, the National Science Foundation and Schmidt Futures has selected seven projects in both rural and urban areas to expand Internet access and help close the digital divide.

Local Franchising, Big Cities, and Fiber Broadband

If states want more private fiber to be expanded in their big cities, it appears clear that allowing cities to negotiate on their own behalf is one powerful option that needs to be restored.

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Bear Paw Development Corporation is a private non-profit organization created for the purpose of administering programs to help improve regional economic conditions in Hill, Blaine, Liberty, Chouteau and Phillips Counties and the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy's Indian Reservations.

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SBA 504 Loans offered statewide! Real estate and equipment, acquisitions, renovation, and new construction. Low, fixed-rates up to 25 years with as little as 10% down.

Montana Bioscience Cluster Initiative - Collaborative program design and execution and integrated programs fostering innovation, technology commercialization, entrepreneurship and sustainable small businesses

As the hub of learning, creativity and innovation in Northwest Montana, Flathead Valley Community College is expanding