If you need proof of the importance of staying digitally connected in the 21st century, there’s this: More than 5 million U.S. households have enrolled in the federal government’s Emergency Broadband ...

Sources: USAC ACP Enrollment and Claims Tracker; household counts and 200% poverty estimates from the 2017-2022 American Community Survey; state-level ACP participation factors from Galperin (2021).

Feb. 25—A massive federal program meant to expand broadband access to underserved areas across the country is falling behind schedule, state broadband officials and experts say, even as Trump ...

The Federal Communications Commission chair today made a final plea to Congress, asking for money to continue a broadband-affordability program that gave out its last round of $30 discounts to people ...

In late 2021, then-President Joe Biden's administration announced the $42.45 billion Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program, hailing it as the modern day equivalent to President Franklin D.

WELLPINIT, Wash. – Living on the Spokane Reservation, like in other rural areas where jobs and services can be hard to come by, getting an internet connection made a world of difference for Thornton ...

A student in Stamford, Conn., takes part in distance learning with the help of her mother. A federal program meant to expand broadband access to households is falling behind schedule, state officials ...