Next Generation Broadband in Montana

Communities face a lot of challenges in improving Internet access. The key is engaging stakeholders in a collaborative process.

The initiative is aimed at attracting more overseas visitors to Shizuoka and Yamanashi, the two states that are home to Mount Fuji. From airports to subway and bus operators, Japan has been expanding free Wi-Fi service ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

The telecom companies have what may seem like an unlikely ally: states. Roughly 20 states have restrictions against municipal broadband.

America’s communications ­infrastructure is finally getting some crucial upgrades because one company is forcing ­competition when regulators won’t.

Local leaders are lauding the Lowcountry Broadband Plan as a potential economic development tool likely to attract tech and startup businesses to the area.

Thanks to the FCC, everyone’s talking about it. But building your own network is harder than it looks.

As more and more of our daily activities run online, slow Internet service now constitutes a major risk for a property’s reputation.

Comcast Corp. said Wednesday that it will launch 2-gigabit-per-second Internet access this summer to nearly 1 million customers in Colorado Springs and the Denver area and immediately make 250-megabit-per-second access available to all its Colorado customers.

Senator: Fast, reliable internet is key to rural connectivity

Montana lawmakers refused this year to pick up where federal stimulus programs will leave off in funding improvements to the state’s Internet, phone and cable services.