The Pueblo of Jemez Tribal community was honored with a Project Excellence Award for its effort to build-out a fiber network to unserved tribal homes...
Decorah, Iowa has launched a public private partnership with West Union Trenching to deploy a modern fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network that passes every household in the...
Legal analysts are questioning the recent assertion that the NTIA can legally withhold federal broadband deployment funds from states that have enacted affordable broadband legislation.
California lawmakers approved new legislation letting renters opt out of bulk-billing arrangements that force them to pay for Internet service from a specific provider.
The electric cooperative-owned Paul Bunyan Communications in Northern Minnesota recently announced it was giving a $3.6 million profit windfall back to local community members.
ILSR's Christopher Mitchell offers insights on Superior, Wisconsin's new city-owned network and how federal policy, municipal broadband barriers and Tribal networks fit into the picture.
The next B4DE virtual gathering will explore why it’s necessary for frontline digital inclusion practitioners to be “Moving at the Speed of Trust.”
The federal agency administering the largest single investment to expand Internet access seems to be changing federal funding rules that would reduce rural broadband investment.
Christopher Mitchell, director of ILSR's Community Broadband Networks initiative, talks to Building Local Power about the interconnected importance of affordable and reliable broadband access.
Leading broadband deployment scholars release new analysis today that may help state broadband offices evaluate “the capacities and saturation limits of the Starlink satellite infrastructure.”
ILSR's Sean Gonsalves writes in The American Prospect on how the "One Big Beautiful Bill" cuts food assistance benefits to households that pay for internet...
ILSR's Sean Gonsalves has a new piece in ProMarket on the continuing consolidation of telecommunication markets and why municipal broadband is a better option.
Maine Connectivity Authority President Andrew Butcher leads five-day “Driving Connections” tour to highlight broadband infrastructure investments the state has made and to rally support for...
Trump administration changes to the $42.5 billion BEAD grant program are poised to introduce years of potential new delays to the already slow-moving program.
The OaklandConnected project calls for construction of city-owned open access fiber network to expand affordable broadband to over 33,000 households languishing without home Internet service