Sentences with phrase «expand rural broadband»

The legislation would do five things: spur clean energy businesses, help farmers diversify their products, retrain workers for specific local manufacturer needs, invest in infrastructure and expand rural broadband access.

Senator Shelley Moore Capito and Representative Morgan Griffith each took time in the hearings to ask the Facebook CEO about his plans to expand rural broadband.

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

«While Nate McMurray was busy at his Grand Island Town Hall Campaign Headquarters currying favor with the Democrat establishment and figuring out how to sell the Cuomo / Pelosi agenda to NY - 27 voters, Chris Collins was spending his time delivering historic tax cuts for working families in his district, expanding access to broadband in rural communities, defending our Lake Ontario Shoreline and protecting our Second Amendment rights,» Piligra said.

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.

A broadband symposium organized by an upstate New York Congressman brought concerned residents and community leaders together with experts from state and federal government to discuss expanding high - speed internet in rural towns.

This time the topics of discussion were not only expanding roads and rail lines, but replacing water and sewer lines and better rural broadband access.

McLaughlin said he wants to see broadband expanded to allow people to work from home and preserve the rural quality.

In addition, the Recovery Act included significant funding for scientific research and technology and to expand access to broadband, particularly in rural communities.

This paper, written for the Rural Opportunities Consortium of Idaho, offers policymakers and philanthropic leaders a set of recommendations to capitalize on the potential of technology to serve students: expand broadband access to schools lacking it, create an elite corps of proven teachers who would be made available to students across the state, and provide districts and schools with the flexibility to develop new models of staffing and technology and to achieve the most strategic combination of personnel, facilities, and technology.

Policymakers should make policy that promotes quality - focused rural education by expanding broadband access, developing quality control mechanisms, and removing barriers to innovation such as class size and seat - time requirements.

Obama has pledged three million new jobs with his stimulus plan, which also includes tax cuts, investment in computerizing medical records, modernizing schools and universities, repairing roads and bridges and expanding broadband access to rural towns.

These funds are used to develop grants that provide assistance to rural communities for supporting: low - carbon innovation and entrepreneurship, increased affordable transportation options, encouraging telecommuting through expanded broadband access.