Show Us the Money: Federal Broadband Support During COVID-19
Benton Institute for Broadband & Society:
A summary of Congressionally-appropriated, broadband-related funding during the pandemic
Benton Institute for Broadband & Society:
A summary of Congressionally-appropriated, broadband-related funding during the pandemic
Originally published April 18, 2020 NeighborSquad The silver lining in the cloud of our current pandemic with COVID-19 is the opportunity to challenge previous assumptions that have inhibited our ability to pivot and innovate. It is time to address fundamental structural problems that we have accepted in our society. There are many things that we…
What are the pros and cons of less expensive alternatives and who is providing them? What are the opportunities to lower the cost per household? These are questions you could help us answer in 2021. We have begun to follow the money and we are adding links to our mind map here. Over in New…
Elsewhere on this website, we have already shown that the incremental cost of connecting an individual home to Broadband can be less than $200. Of course, that assumes that somewhere they connect to a physical wire (fiber) via an antenna on top of a tower or tall building. Someone does have to pay for the…
Earlier this year in March, the Biden Administration signed the American Rescue Plan Act, which included, among many other things, multiple sources of funds for broadband infrastructure. The U.S. Dep Source: Biden Administration Decides Cities Should Not Use Broadband Dollars for Broadband
We have been talking about the difference between giving people fish, teaching them to fish and changing the fishing industry. We are now witnessing Government programs giving out broadband fish while monopolistic corporations are calculating how they can get as much of the fish as possible for themselves. We need to change the industry. Perspective…
#InternetForAll – Learn about how we can expand Broadband access in Michigan to become better, faster and cheaper than current approaches. This is the kick off meeting for the future Michigan Chapter of the Internet Society. Watch the presentation video below or open the slides. We can achieve #InternetForAll by turning Broadband into a commodity…
Are you concerned that most of the federal dollars coming to Michigan will be going to the incumbents, who created the #DigitalDivide? If so, CLICK HERE to register for our new website and help create coalitions in Michigan.