News
December 3, 2018
Many small communities across the country struggle to bring advanced broadband to their residents. What they lack in size, they often make up with diversity of their economies, populations, geography, and technology providers. Public-private partnerships (PPP) can help local government and…
December 1, 2018
Vol 2 | Issue 12 | December 2018
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BroadbandUSA’s State Broadband Leadership Network
Access to broadband has many benefits for Americans. It connects Americans with friends and family across the country, and can transform…
October 31, 2018
Volume 3 | Issue 11 | November 2018
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Transforming Rural Healthcare through Broadband
This month’s webinar on healthcare (see details below) will feature representatives from two pioneers in rural health.
The creation of the…
October 18, 2018
by Doug Kinkoph, Associate Administrator, Office of Telecommunications and Information Applications
This week, NTIA recognizes International Digital Inclusion Week. Digital inclusion is more than a social program giving people access to computing and information technology; it is now an economic…
October 2, 2018
If the Internet of Things (IoT) conjures images of the Jetsons and self-driving cars, think again. At the NTCA Rural Broadband Association 2018 Fall Conference, Curtis Strole, Executive Director, Customer Relations, NeoNova, talked about how he uses IoT devices as a better way to help his parents…
October 1, 2018
Volume 3 | Issue 10 | October 2018
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BroadbandUSA Leads the Way in Making Federal Funding Information More Accessible
With the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), NTIA’s BroadbandUSA co-chairs the Broadband Interagency…
September 28, 2018
(NTIA), as part of its BroadbandUSA program, announced a series of webinars to engage the public and stakeholders with information to accelerate broadband connectivity, improve digital inclusion, strengthen policies and support local priorities in a notice published on July 17, 2018. This notice…
September 19, 2018
On September 6 and 7, NTIA and BroadbandUSA participated in a workshop that focused on deploying rural broadband and using technology in agriculture (also known as “smart ag”) at Purdue University, Indiana. Participants shared ideas for wireless test beds for smart ag and rural broadband…
September 7, 2018
Volume 3 | Issue 9| September 2018
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Innovation in Broadband Technologies
Broadband deployment technologies are moving beyond traditional buried fiber and transmitter towers. High-throughput satellites, for example, rely on…
September 4, 2018
Students heading back to school this fall that lack access to high-speed broadband will continue to rely upon libraries for homework assignments.
Over the past few years, the U.S. has made significant gains in efforts to connect K-12 schools with high-speed broadband connections of 100Mbps per…