NTIA Receives More Than 250 Comments to Inform Digital Equity Act Programs
NTIA Blog
June 12, 2023
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By: Angela Thi Bennett
Three Takeaways from Version 2 of the FCC’s National Broadband Map
Today the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released Version 2 of the National Broadband Map. This is an important step in meeting President Biden’s goal of connecting everyone in America to affordable, reliable, high-speed Internet service.
ConnectingUS: Federal programs boost budget for high-speed Internet service
By Margaret Harding McGill, NTIA
Robyn Johnson found out the hard way just how little her Internet bandwidth could carry when COVID-19 struck.
Her bandwidth hit its limit when her high school and elementary school-aged children tried to attend classes online while she instructed classes of her own as a fourth-grade teacher at the Eagle Butte, South Dakota elementary school on the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe reservation.