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Community Broadband Media Roundup - April 13
Colorado
Municipal election results roll in, 3 new municipalities pass broadband service by Brennan Linsley, Colorado Politics
Georgia
Blue Ridge Mountain EMC Transforms Broadband Have-Nots Into Broadband Haves by Sean Buckley, Broadband Communities
Kansas
Monroe County EPA teams up with Conexon to launch fiber-to-the-home network, Monroe Journal
Monroe County EPA will begin construction on the network by the fourth quarter of 2020, with the first customers expected to be connected by early 2021. The four-year build-out will span 1,500 miles of fiber, serve 100 percent of the power’s association’s 10,800 members and is anticipated to cost in the range of $29 million.
Maine
Coronavirus sparks new interest in bridging digital divides by Zack Quaintance, GovTech
Minnesota
New urgency for rural broadband by Aaron J. Brown, Hibbing Daily Tribune
Missouri
Wisper, Rural Electric Cooperative Sho-Me make deal on Missouri broadband builds by Joan Engebretson, telecompetitor
New York
Buffalo Public Schools grapple with the city's digital divide: ‘It’s just a big equity issue.’ by Kyle S. Mackie, WBFO
North Carolina
Working from home? North Carolina's new site maps Wi-Fi, ISP deals by Ryan Johnston, Statescoop
Tennessee
Ben Lomand awarded $2 million broadband access grant for Cumberland County by Gary Nelson, Crossville Chronicle
Twin Lakes to receive broadband grant, Overton County News
Grant for broadband accessibility in Perry County, Buffalo River Review
Texas
Lockhart provides all district students free internet service so online learning can start by Heather Osbourne, Statesman
Trust and entrepreneurship pave the way toward digital inclusion in Brownsville, Texas by Lara Fishbane and Adie Tomer, Brookings
Utah
Roger Timmerman: COVID-19 reveals a gap in our online infrastructure by Roger Timmerman, The Salt Lake Tribune
General
Our lack of will to expand broadband access has left millions of students disconnected during closures by Ben Hecht, Fast Company
Verizon canceling FiOS installs and telling customers to wait a few months by Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica
Verizon is canceling many home-Internet installations and repairs during the pandemic, and some customers are being given appointment dates in November when they try to schedule an installation. The November appointment dates appear to be placeholders that will eventually be replaced by earlier dates. But Verizon is sending mixed messages to customers about when appointments will actually happen and about whether technicians are allowed to enter their homes.
Worried about 5G and cancer? Here’s why wireless networks pose no known health risk by Glenn Fleishman, Tidbits
Jon Cusack The Latest Celebrity To Spread Nonsense About 5G by Karl Bode, TechDirt
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Community Broadband Media Roundup - June 8
Iowa
Iowa receives $26.2 million in emergency education relief to expand broadband access, Discover Muscatine
Minnesota
Community Broadband Media Roundup - May 25
Colorado
Little-known Internet network plans Western Colorado expansion to link students, nonprofits to supercomputers by Tamara Chuang, Colorado Sun
Louisiana
Community Broadband Media Roundup - May 18
California
Partnerships can close the digital divide by Apoorva Pasricha & Kevin Frazier, GovTech
Colorado
Community Broadband Media Roundup - May 4
Arizona
Mohave Electric Cooperative moves forward to build fiber optic network in partnership with TWN Communications, Cision PR Newswire
Arkansas