Sentences with phrase «access to broadband internet»

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Most classrooms across the nation are now equipped with access to broadband internet, due in large part to President Barack Obama's ConnectED initiative that aimed to connect 99 % of students across the country to broadband by 2018.

Within every school district, there are economically disadvantaged students who lack access to broadband Internet when they leave school.

Building on the Common Core State Standards and increasing access to broadband internet, this paper proposes the establishment of a new third - party ratings organization to overcome this challenge.

The Federal Communications Commission has begun to upgrade and enhance its E-Rate program to provide more schools with greater access to broadband Internet.

The article discusses how increased access to broadband Internet will allow students and teachers to access a range of digital education technologies.

He said the district also must work to attract small businesses by expanding access to broadband internet through infrastructure investment and cut bureaucratic red tape that impedes economic growth.

The most important thing to remember is that VoIP phone services require access to a broadband Internet Connection, but they don't need seprate phone service from your local phone company.

About 20 % of all Americans neither own a smartphone nor have access to broadband Internet.

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At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler signaled that he would heed President Obama's call to preserve net neutrality — that is, treat broadband internet service providers as utilities (subject to more rigorous regulation than previously) to maintain equal access for all to the internet.

INTERNET users in regional and outer metropolitan areas will be given greater access to ADSL broadband after recent tests by Telstra showed that transmission limits can be increased.

According to the FCC's latest Internet Access Services report, for example, only 24 % of developed housing areas had at least two ISPs that offered official broadband speeds.

«The focus of our legal appeal will be on the FCC's decision to reclassify broadband Internet access service as a public utility service,» Jon Banks, senior vice president of U.S. Telecom said in a statement.

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The network, home to Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire, says the streaming platform will target the 10 million American households that pay for broadband Internet access, but not cable television.

They were intended to ensure a free and open internet, give consumers equal access to web content and prevent broadband service providers from favoring their own content.

Mobile broadband over 3G EV - DO and EDGE networks currently delivers real - time traffic info, video clips, push e-mail and internet access to most large cities across the U.S..

The FCC rules guaranteeing it were designed to protect internet users» ability to access the online services of their choice and to prevent broadband providers from giving an unfair advantage to their own sites and services or to those of their paid partners.

On the broadband definition front, Chen writes that BlackBerry opposes reclassifying internet access as a Title II service, which would ultimately give the FCC the ability to regulate it.

If adopted, the new rules would ban large broadband firms like Verizon and Comcast from purposefully slowing down or discriminating against different types of data, but they would allow content providers to pay extra to access a virtual Internet fast lane.

The program includes a commitment from the cable companies to offer to $ 10 a month broadband Internet access to homes with children that are eligible for free school lunches.

Google announced that the city would be the inaugural site for its «Fiber for Communities» program, which it says will be able to deliver Internet access more than 100 times faster than the home broadband connections provided by phone and cable companies across the country.

Carlsbad's Viasat is tapping the larger footprint of its new ViaSat - 2 broadband satellite to deliver Internet access to underserved rural towns in Mexico via Wi - Fi hotspots.

Communications company Tombigbee has received a $ 3 million federal grant to expand broadband internet access across rural northwest Alabama.

These two markets» classifications relate to wireless penetration (how many people have cellphones) and broadband penetration (how many of those phones are capable of accessing the internet).

The conference's timing was critical: As universal broadband access expands, industry and Internet users alike must adapt to meet new needs, especially those of developing countries.

For the purposes of disambiguation, it's probably best to use the Wikipedia's definition of which Internet access is «broadband»; although any reasonable technical definition would work.

The Cuomo administration continues its mission to bring broadband internet access to «unserved» communities throughout New York, with an announcement late yesterday afternoon of grants awarded as part of Round II of the initiative.

Today, with the announcement of Round III awards, the program accomplishes its mission of statewide broadband availability - providing the last mile funding to ensure all New Yorkers have access to high - speed internet by the end of 2018.

The $ 209.7 million Round III awards will provide 122,285 homes, businesses and community institutions across the state with access to high - speed Internet, driving in aggregate more than $ 341.8 million of public / private broadband investment.

Today's digital divide is more about the devices New Yorkers use to access the Internet than it is about access to broadband at home.

As part of his plan for allocating $ 5.4 billion in one - shot windfall funds, Governor Cuomo wants to spend $ 500 million to expand the availability and capacity of broadband Internet access across New York.

The $ 500 million New NY York Broadband Program, which provides funding for high - speed internet access to unserved and underserved areas across the state, is the largest and most ambitious state investment in broadband in the nation.

ERIE COUNTY, NY - Since entering office in 2013, Erie County Legislator Patrick B. Burke (District 7) has worked to increase the access, speed and affordability of broadband internet for residents and businesses in Erie County.

«Millions of New Yorkers do not have access to a reasonable Internet connection, which is synonymous with access to broadband.

Lawmakers also agreed to divide up the $ 5 billion dollar windfall surplus from bank settlements, with $ 1.5 billion going to upstate economic development and $ 500m to improve broadband Internet access.

At one point in a mayoral candidates» forum last night at Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, Anthony Weiner, the former congressman known for his pugilistic rhetorical style, had to follow City Comptroller John Liu, former Councilman Sal Albanese and former Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión Jr. on the subject of better broadband Internet access in the city.

More than $ 210 million in state grants is being awarded to scores of municipalities from Buffalo to Westchester to bring broadband internet access to thousands of New York homes and businesses.

The third item announced on Governor Cuomo's «Opportunity Agenda» is to create a broadband program to ensure access to high - speed internet for all New Yorkers by the year 2019.

In addition to referencing his military career, efforts to expand broadband Internet access and work on the Farm Bill, Gibson's ad focuses heavily on constituent services.

New York state is seeking applicants for the first phase of its $ 500 million broadband program meant to bring high - speed Internet access across the state.

Lawmakers also agreed to divide up the $ 5 billion windfall surplus from bank settlements, with $ 1.5 billion going to upstate economic development and $ 500 million to improve broadband Internet access.

Its goal is to make sure residents in the underserved urban and rural parts of the state can access the internet at 25 Mbps and eventually expand that to 100 Mbps by providing state matching grants to broadband service providers.

He also stressed investments need to be made in broadband internet access «so that communities like ours are no longer at such a sharp disadvantage.»

Those proposals include a $ 500 million investment in broadband Internet access in rural upstate areas, the creation of an infrastructure bank, using $ 500 million from the state's surplus to further provide incentives to local governments to consolidate and share services and the Global NY initiative, meant to promote overseas trade of state businesses.

Low - income children should have the same access to the internet, to do their homework and to study and research using broadband as the rest of America does.»

Offering a history of broadband initiatives in Ulster County this past week, county Comptroller Elliott Auerbach noted a 2012 resolution supporting applications to the Connect NY Broadband Grant for broadband service to the towns of Denning, Wawarsing, Hardenburgh, and Rochester; a 2014 State of the County address request from County Executive Mike Hein to the Ulster County Legislature to set policy on «some important issues still facing Ulster County including Broadband expansion and improving internet access for county residents»; a request from the legislature later that same year «that the county executive develop a plan... and the plan should include a one year, two year and five year plus proposal for broadband expansion»; and resolutions and letters directed to the state Public Service Commission this year directing Verizon to provide high speed fiber optic internet across Ulster County.

Every month, Olive town board member Jim Sofranko gives a progress report on his attempts to bring better broadband Internet access to his town, where some areas are still only served by dial up.

Miner has put forth a proposal to the state government in Albany to spend money on infrastructure in Syracuse, including repairing water mains, increasing broadband internet access, and creating a naturally chilled water system to cool buildings in the summer.

The fourth conference continued a push to expand broadband internet access, and economic opportunity, in the Adirondacks.