Rural Communities

David Honig, Co-founder and President of the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council, tells the truth about the federal Lifeline program.
A new report details how the U.S. libraries have used federal BTOP funds to improve broadband access and adoption.
The federal Lifeline wireless subsidy program has a lot of support across the board, and some angry Republican detractors in Congress.
Frontier, Century Link and Windstream CEOs wrote to the FCC asking for funding for rural broadband build-out.
FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn said that her support for federal telephone subsidy to low-income Americans remains firm.
Revelations show the federal broadband program, BTOP, riddled with overruns, favoritism and unnecessary duplication of infrastructure.
Despite a flurry of news reports, the government is not building a nationwide Super Wi-Fi. The story was really about spectrum.
Europe is considering taxing firms like Netflix, Google and Facebook to support the physical Internet. Should we?
For low-income students without home broadband, McDonald's may be the default place to study.
Bell Labs says that by 2020 there will be a 12-fold increase in Internet video content, requiring the growth of fiber and other wired networks.