ILSR's Exploring Digital Equity Fact Sheet Series unpacks the issues, challenges, and opportunities of bringing broadband access to everyone. READ MORE
The recently enacted budget bill includes “the largest ever investment in New York's 21st century infrastructure (that) will leverage public and private investments to connect New Yorkers." READ MORE
Business has been unmistakably good for Comcast recently, having added 1.3 million new broadband subscribers in 2021 alone. But that wasn’t the only cause for its increased earnings. READ MORE
Excerpts from the story published May 10, 2022
On Monday, Biden touted new commitments by AT&T, Comcast, Verizon and 17 other providers to provide discounted high-speed Internet service to low-income customers. Under the arrangement, eligible consumers can sign up for Internet plans for $ READ MORE
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. (May 9, 2022) – The Biden Administration is poised to celebrate the nation's largest telecommunications monopolies today even as these companies do the bare minimum for digital equity while undermining his administration's broadband agenda.
Christopher Mitchell, Director of the C READ MORE
Expanding Internet access to everyone who wants it isn’t an infrastructure problem alone. Achieving equity for everyone in a community is a many-sided endeavor, and requires engaging and activating an array of stakeholders. Created with support from AARP and help from th READ MORE
In the News: Sean Gonsalves
April 16, 2022
Media Outlet: WGRZ News
The initiatives created in this budget allow New York to make significant progress on a national level, according to Sean Gonsalves from the Institute for Local Self Reliance.
"From a community broadband READ MORE
Although we were initially concerned that certain language in New York’s proposed state budget would lock out municipal broadband projects from being able to capitalize on the federal funding bonanza contained in the American Rescue Plan Act and forthcoming money in the Inf READ MORE
