The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. The hardware on the towers then blasts that connection about 10 miles into the valley below. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 92

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

In 2004, President George W. A 2015 Pew Research Center report revealed that the disconnected included 5 million households with school-aged children, who either couldn’t afford home broadband or lived in rural areas avoided by for-profit internet companies. Bush called for universal broadband access in America by 2007.

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Broadband Mobility Digital Divide Learning 88

Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

As an op-ed in The Washington Post put it , “The FCC talks the talk on the digital divide – and then walks in the other direction.” As part of these modernization efforts , in 2015 the funding cap for E-rate was increased to $3.9 ” Among them: an $8.71

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E-rate Digital Divide Broadband Libraries 49