July 13, 2016

The Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband Coalition (SHLB) has come up with an “action plan”—actually a series of 10 policy papers—for getting those institutions connected to next-generation high-speed broadband and making that a national priority…

A new Senate caucus wants to do for broadband what FDR did for electricity. In the 1930s, just 10 percent of people living on U.S. farms or in other rural areas had electricity, even though it was common in cities. Enter President Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose ambitious New Deal programs included those to electrify the

Senators from rural states are taking a lot of interest in broadband these days. Just one day after a group of 26 senators  sent a letter to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler asking him to take action on a Universal Service broadband mobility fund some of the same senators yesterday launched what they are calling the