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Grande delivers internet access, local and long-distance telephone service and digital cable over its own network to nine different markets in Texas. [2] Grande Communications serves as the primary provider of cable services for dormitories on the campuses of Texas State University , University of the Incarnate Word , Baylor University and the ...
Proponents of municipal broadband also argue that the entrance of a public provider into a local market increases the competition which reduces prices and improves the quality of service. [13] Opponents argue that the publicly funded networks have an unfair financial advantage that actually crowds out private investment [ 14 ] and leads to long ...
Dec. 19—AUSTIN — The Texas Broadband Development Office, operated by the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, is soliciting input from the public on the new Texas Digital Opportunity Plan.
On June 22, 2016, Google Fiber bought Webpass, an Internet service provider that has been in business for 13 years and specializes in high-speed Internet for business and residential customers. They have a large presence [ clarification needed ] in California and specifically the Bay Area as well as San Diego , Miami , Miami Beach , Coral ...
Texas is poised to receive more than $3.3 billion federal dollars to help connect the roughly 7 million Texans who lack access to affordable internet. The state will bolster those funds with an ...
In the modern sense of offering service to all people, the promotion of universal service in telecommunications was crystalized in the 1960s. Some sources point to the earlier Communications Act of 1934 as promoting universal service based on the language of its preamble, but other historians have pointed out that in the early 20th century "universal service" was originally an AT&T marketing ...
Compared to other states, Iowans pay some of the highest prices for access to the internet, according to a study by High Speed Internet. Just over 92% of Iowa households have a computer, according ...
Internet usage in the United States varies widely from state to state. For example, in the U.S. overall in 2011, 77.9% of the population used the Internet. But in that same year (2011), there was a large gap in usage between the top three states - Washington (80.0%), New Hampshire (79.8%) and Minnesota (79.0%) - and the bottom three states ...