E-rate schools and libraries program funding should be used toward the cost of wireless or wireline connectivity for home broadband for students and teachers, said Microsoft in a video meeting with FCC officials last week. Microsoft estimates that over 19…
Less than 25% of respondents are confident that national ISPs have the ability to effectively use future federal funds to close the digital divide, according to a new policy study from Benton Institute for Broadband and Society with The Broadband…
The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan bill that President Biden is signing today includes $7.1 billion for an Emergency Connectivity Fund that would provide additional E-rate funding for emergency connectivity and devices for schools and libraries. The money in The…
The FCC will provide funding of $1,366,378 to 291 schools in 32 states and Puerto Rico through its E-Rate program. A total of 220,584 students could benefit from the new E-Rate funding. The funding was awarded to entities that applied…
The Accessible, Affordable Internet for All Act, introduced in the House of Representatives yesterday, would make over $100 billion available for broadband initiatives. The majority of the funding — $80 billion – would go toward building broadband infrastructure, primarily rural…
WASHINGTON, April 1, 2020—The Federal Communications Commission today announced extensions of key E-Rate service implementation and filing deadlines to provide relief to program participants affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. These extensions, granted by the FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau, will alleviate…
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the FCC has made changes to the Rural Health Care (RHC) and E-Rate programs to enable them to more effectively support telemedicine and remote learning. The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau is waiving gift rules…
Nearly 100% of U.S. school districts have enough broadband connectivity to provide 100 kbps of bandwidth per student and 38% of districts can support 1 Mbps per student, according to the latest school broadband report from EducationSuperhighway, a non-profit broadband…
The FCC is considering changes to the E-rate program aimed at speeding the deployment of Wi-Fi within schools and libraries. The commission proposes to make permanent certain budget changes adopted on a limited-time basis several years ago. The E-rate program…
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