Companies receiving federal subsidies for
connecting rural homes and businesses would now be required to offer competitive rates to schools and libraries in their service areas.
Not exact matches
LC: Cyberschools and distance education have increasingly
connected isolated
rural students and
home - schooled children to teachers and resources that were heretofore unavailable to them.
One of the FCC's biggest new policy sticks involves the «
Connect America Fund,» through which federal subsidies are given to companies that bring broadband to
rural homes and businesses.
But in low - income neighborhoods, across the state's inland regions and in
rural communities — often
home to large migrant populations — families struggle to
connect at all.