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?
Our redesigned Community Networks Map shows where municipal networks are located and how they are bringing new, more affordable service and competition to communities across...
Interactive Community Networks Map pinpoints where these networks are located and provides a graphic illustration of emerging trends.
ILSR's Sean Gonsalves gives Wisconsin Public Radio national context on open access networks and state preemption laws that ban or erect barriers to municipal broadband.
Harrison County, Texas are using the county’s remaining Rescue Plan funds to strike a fiber expansion partnership with the locally-owned Etex Telephone Cooperative.
The northern Minnesota telephone cooperative, which serves 30,000 members across its 6,000-square-mile service area, has announced it is returning over $3 million to its members.
The Maine Connectivity Authority has unveiled $9.6 million in new grants to bring affordable fiber to over 15,000 homes and businesses across 12 underserved communities.
Oakland, California will use ARPA grant funds to construct a city-owned fiber network that will support the city housing authority's “Free Internet Initiative.”
Fort Collins' award-winning municipal fiber network celebrates growth by giving away a year of free Internet access to 20 randomly chosen subscribers.
Brownsville, Texas is now transforming the city's digital landscape with a fiber network to bring fast, reliable, and affordable Internet service to nearly 200,000 residents.
Report illustrates how the FCC's approach "sets the stage for conflict," examining the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund's impact on the federal government's broadband infrastructure funding.
Report examines some Tribal Nations’ critiques about the Federal Communications Commission’s troubled Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF).
Consumer Reports latest survey of the most popular ISPs in the U.S. once again dominated by smaller providers and community-owned broadband networks.
Imperial, Lassen, and Plumas Counties are among the first recipients of California’s $2 billion Last Mile Federal Funding Account Grant Program (FFA).
As states gear up to administer federal BEAD funds, a handful of states are already making significant investments in municipal broadband with Rescue Plan dollars.