digital divide

Working with municipal stakeholders cuts costs, increases speed of rural deployments Of the more than 30 million people in the United States without access to the internet, some 6 million of them are students, Skyler Dithfield, CEO of service provider …

Internet access is vital to the ability for students to complete homework, adults to search for jobs and for people to stay connected in work, education and life. The digital divide, or relative lack of internet access among people with …

According to the Pew Research Center, there are 5 million households with school-age kids that don’t have access to high speed internet. Couple that reality with the fact seven out of 10 teachers assign web-based homework assignments and you’re left …

Sprint CEO, on recent earnings call, said supply for Magic Box can’t keep up with demand With plans to pass 1 million deployments in the coming months, Sprint is continuing to put more of its Magic Box LTE small cells …

Pilot white space Wi-Fi network to expand in southern Virginia Microsoft is supporting the launch of a Wi-Fi network that utilizes television white spaces, to provide connectivity in rural southern Virginia. The “Homework Network” is being constructed by wireless internet …

We tend to take broadband availability and affordability as a given, at least in large cities! That’s not what we found in a recent research we conducted on behalf of the Wireless Broadband Alliance. In fact we found that more …

A new report from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration reflects the fact that Americans have been rapidly adopting mobile broadband use. NTIA’s report “confirms skyrocketing demand for devices that allow users to access Internet applications nearly anywhere,” according to Lawrence Strickling, …