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In June 2009, the company named Mark White, former Governor of Texas, as the special counsel for development of broadband networks in rural areas. [17] In 2015, the company was acquired by JAB Broadband and folded into Rise Broadband. [18]
Fios Internet was the first service offered under Verizon's Fios brand, and is one of three of the product line's current offerings. The broadband Internet service initially launched in Keller, Texas, in 2004, [10] a year before Fios TV was available. [11]
This integration was made possible with advances in broadband technologies and high-speed information processing of the 1990s. [ 3 ] [ 7 ] While multiple network structures were capable of supporting broadband services, an ever-increasing percentage of broadband and MSO providers opted for fibre-optic network structures to support both present ...
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In October 2011 the FCC voted to phase out the USF's high-cost program that has been subsidizing voice telephone services in rural areas by shifting $4.5 billion a year in funding over several years to a new Connect America Fund focused on expanding broadband deployment.
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Grant applicants are required to have a line of credit from a major bank and put up 25% of the project cost ahead of time. That will likely disqualify many small internet service providers in ...
In the 1990s, the National Information Infrastructure initiative in the U.S. made broadband Internet access a public policy issue. [23] In 2000, most Internet access to homes was provided using dial-up, while many businesses and schools were using broadband connections.