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Mural Net – Working with Native Nations to design, build and control their Internet access future

Broadband is the basis and future of economic development, health, and education for Native Americans.

SpaceX releases Starlink app, prices for satellite internet service

According to the documents CNBC viewed, Starlink service will be $99 per month. There’s also an upfront $499 charge for a starter kit that includes the equipment necessary to connect — a terminal, tripod, and WiFi router.

How the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe in South Dakota created its own wireless education network with help from MuralNet for around $250,000.

Leaders with the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe in central South Dakota say they have found a low-cost solution to the tribe’s computer and internet needs that will aid education but which may ultimately improve life overall in the community.

Big Butter, Big Tech Partner to Build Wi-Fi Access Map

Land O’Lakes and Microsoft joined forces over the summer to address, among other issues, the rural broadband gap. The two organizations, along with other partners, just released a Wi-Fi access point map.

After Years of Working to Expand Tribal Broadband, Tester Announces FCC Approval of Montana Tribes’ Spectrum Licenses

All seven Montana Tribes that applied for licenses were approved

Broadband Internet Promises Are Left Unfulfilled in Many Rural Areas

The lack of access, despite billions spent, has made it harder for the unconnected to work and study during Covid-19

Over 70,000 Kansas Homes Finally Getting High-Speed Internet (Why Not Montana?)

Gov. Kelly announced that the state will use nearly $50 million in COVID-19 aid grants to establish Internet for 76,735 households. An additional $85 million will improve statewide Internet over the next decade.

SpaceX Connects Rural Washington Communities Via Satellite

Thanks to partnerships with the Washington Emergency Management Division and State Department of Commerce, SpaceX Starlink satellites have connected both a fire-stricken town and a tribal reservation to high-speed Internet.

Tester Delivers $10.8 Million to Expand High-Speed Internet in Rural Montana

Investments in broadband infrastructure will provide high-speed internet for nearly 1000 Montana households in Big Horn, Stillwater, and Carbon counties

Teleworking in a parking lot. School on a flash drive. The coronavirus prompts new urgency for rural Internet access.

“We’re trying to send people to Mars, but we can’t get our own population connected to the network?” said Gregory Goergen, who has sometimes gone with his children to a Sheetz parking lot to get work done online.

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