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Western Governors approve new resolutions on Broadband Connectivity, Rural Development

Recommendations to address broadband data and mapping, investments in scalable infrastructure, and strategies to help connect tribal communities across the region’s vast distances and unforgiving terrain.

Klobuchar’s Bill Would Put $100 Billion Toward Broadband

Klobuchar’s Accessible, Affordable Internet for All Act is intended “to close the digital divide and connect Americans to ensure they have increased access to education, health care and business opportunities.”

On Broadband, Tester Tells FCC: Don’t Leave Rural Communities Behind

It is irresponsible for the FCC to allocate $16 billion using incorrect data that gives an incomplete picture of the nation’s broadband gaps. I fear this will turn into another broken promise from the FCC and rural America deserves better.”

Sen. Jon Tester – Update on available Broadband assistance

The fund would estabish a fund to compensate rural broadband providers for offering free or discounted services to families who are struggling to keep up with their bills due to COVID-19.

In Migrant Worker Camps, Wifi Is a Basic Utility

During the Covid-19 pandemic, an agricultural community comes together to expand wifi access in migrant farmworker camps.

Alphabet’s internet balloons take on first commercial task in Kenya

They are providing thousands of folks with an entirely novel form of internet access.

Chicago Wants to Make Its Student Broadband Program Permanent

The program, dubbed Chicago Connected, will provide more than 100,000 Chicago Public School students with the Internet at home, and officials say the goal is to make sure those students are never without broadband again.

Boosting broadband: Forest Service may change permits, access

State AGs Recommend COVID-19 Broadband Funding – Is Your State Advocating for Better Broadband??

Upcoming School Year Reinforces Broadband Access Concerns

The report also discusses potential short- and long-term solutions: subsidies; hot spots; expanded Wi-Fi in public spaces such as parks, community centers and pedestrian areas; and public-private partnerships to help make sure that high-speed internet access is available to all.

Whatever back to school looks like, it has to serve the kids without internet and tech

There’s a problem with online or hybrid learning. At least 15 million of America’s more than 50 million schoolchildren don’t have either internet access or the right tech for school