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Broadband mapping in the United States. Broadband maps indicate service availability over geographic space. This historical map of California counties in 2011 suggests there is greater availability in large urban metro areas such as Los Angeles and San Francisco. Broadband mapping in the United States are efforts to describe geographically how ...
In February 2009, the United States Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, including a $7.2 billion grant to the NTIA and U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service to bolster broadband access across the United States. Of the grant, $4.7 billion was allocated to provide for the implementation of ...
Fixed-broadband access refers to high-speed fixed (wired) access to the public Internet at downstream speeds equal to, or greater than, 256 kbit/s. This includes satellite Internet access , cable modem , DSL , fibre-to-the-home/building , and other fixed (wired) broadband subscriptions.
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration published a new map ... rural and tribal areas — lack quality and affordable broadband ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us.
In 2019, the United States ranked 3rd in the world for the number of internet users (behind China and India), with 312.32 million users. [ 3 ] As of 2019, 90% of adults in America use the internet, either irregularly or frequently. [ 4 ] The United States ranks #1 in the world with 7,000 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) according to the CIA. [ 5 ]
This is a sortable list of broadband internet connection speed by country, ranked by Speedtest.net data for March 2024, [1] and with M-Lab data for June 2023 [2] Country/Territory Median
The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is the surveying method developed and used in the United States to plat, or divide, real property for sale and settling. Also known as the Rectangular Survey System, it was created by the Land Ordinance of 1785 to survey land ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783, following the end of the ...
In the US, the broadband universal service concept is rooted in the universal service mandate in Telecommunications Act of 1996. [36] Arguments regarding the National Broadband Plan are also related to broadband universal service debates. The US National Broadband Plan was released by the FCC in March 2010. The agency started the process of ...