Resources & Publications

How Small Towns and Public Partnerships Transformed Internet Access in Western Massachusetts

Report

How Small Towns and Public Partnerships Transformed Internet Access in Western Massachusetts

The story of 19 small Western Massachusetts towns that worked together over a decade and a half to build an alternative to the monopoly marketplace.

New Resource: Community Networks in California’s Federal Funding Account Broadband Grant Program

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New Resource: Community Networks in California’s Federal Funding Account Broadband Grant Program

Here is our new dashboard that helps visualize the success of community-based broadband projects under the California's transformative FFA program.

Blueprints for BEAD: What We Can Learn From the Low-Cost Option That Was, Then Wasn’t, Then Was Again

Article

Blueprints for BEAD: What We Can Learn From the Low-Cost Option That Was, Then Wasn’t, Then Was Again

BEAD will help connect millions of households without access to high-speed Internet. But will it matter if low-income subscribers still can’t afford service?

Native Nations and Federal Telecom Policy Failures: Lessons from the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund

Report

Native Nations and Federal Telecom Policy Failures: Lessons from the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund

Report examines some Tribal Nations’ critiques about the Federal Communications Commission’s troubled Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF).

USDA ReConnect Amps Up Broadband Funding to Tribal Nations

Article

USDA ReConnect Amps Up Broadband Funding to Tribal Nations

Colorado River Indian Tribe's award is a reminder that the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program is not the be-all and end-all of funding for Tribal broadband.

BEAD’s Match Exemption for High-Cost Areas May Be Challenging for Tribal ISPs

Article

BEAD’s Match Exemption for High-Cost Areas May Be Challenging for Tribal ISPs

Necessary funding to bridge a "high-cost area" Internet coverage gap may be inaccessible if states fail to make a match exemption feasible.