Notably, the program almost immediately started to shift funding to tech billionaires promising to use satellite internet to ...

Students in rural America still lack access to high-speed internet at home despite governmental efforts during the pandemic to fill the void. This lack of access negatively affects their academic ...

That's not always the case. A new federal Department of Agriculture economic analysis has found that rural communities with greater broadband Internet access had greater economic growth than areas ...

The Federal Communications Commission is moving ahead with a $9 billion effort to expand 5G mobile broadband service in rural areas. The commission last week voted to roll out the first phase of the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On New Year’s Eve 2021, the federal government launched the Affordable Connectivity ...

The push to get broadband internet out to rural American towns is starting to pick up steam, but as it does, a battle is brewing over whether that internet should come from space. The original idea ...