"A county without any internet capacity in modern America is a lost county for the future,? said Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), guest speaker at the 2013 West Virginia Broadband Summit in Morgantown.

?Some of the groups most likely to not have health insurance are the same as those groups most likely to not be online."

According to Jason Fuhrman, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers: Improved telecommunications infrastructure, particularly fast and widely-accessible wired and wireless broadband networks, enables synergistic technological advances in business, healthcare, education, public safety, entertainment, and more.

Despite a major federal push toward electronic medical records, few doctors have wholly adopted them.

David Honig, Co-founder and President of the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council, tells the truth about the federal Lifeline program.

Webcast of "Getting to Gigabit: The Future of Broadband for Anchor Institutions and Their Communities."

A sizable majority of U.S. adults search the Internet for health information.

The FCC is expanding its Healthcare Connect Fund, bringing broadband to an increasing number of providers.

A Verizon survey says the Internet is our most valued utility; another survey says families can save $7200 a year by using the internet.

CWA and Verizon reached a tentative agreement protecting job security and retirement security of 34,000 East Coast members.