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Because of the different incentives and financing mechanisms that public providers have, municipal broadband has been marketed as a way of closing the digital divide by building more internet infrastructure in rural and low-income areas that private providers have historically avoided. [15]
In January 2007, Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) sponsored a bill (the Universal Service for Americans Act, S. 101) that would increase universal service tax base to include broadband ISPs and VoIP providers, to fund broadband deployment in rural and low-income regions of the country. This bill was referred to committee, but as no further action was ...
The Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) was a United States government-sponsored program that provided internet access to low-income households. [1] Several companies signed on to participate in the program, including Verizon Communications, Frontier Communications, T-Mobile, Spectrum, Cox, AT&T, Xfinity, Optimum and Comcast.
Most Republicans voted against a 2021 bill that is now providing money to get high-speed internet to rural parts of America. But this week, a handful of GOP lawmakers were nevertheless unable to ...
The Biden administration on Monday continued its push toward internet-for-all by 2030, announcing about $667 million in new grants and loans to build more broadband infrastructure in the rural U.S.
The Rural Broadband Association, an organization representing rural-centric providers, has pointed to the expensive permits and procedural delays in preventing "universal" broadband access. [61] For rural areas such as the ones the RBA represents, financial returns can be insufficient and thus private actors have little incentive to compete ...
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NTCA - The Rural Broadband Association (NTCA) is a membership association with the goal of improving communications services in rural America. With a membership comprising over 850 independent rural American telecommunications companies in 46 states, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] NTCA provides training and employee benefit packages to its members. [ 3 ]