Sentences with phrase «of rural broadband»

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But what about the idea of funding the network through revenue from rural broadband rollouts?

Perth - based EFTel Ltd has set its sights on providing broadband connections to rural, regional and remote areas of Australia, after the internet service provider received funding approval to supply subsidised broadband services to regional customers.

West Virginia Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R) made this request — some of her state's rural areas apparently lack broadband.

Rural Americans seldom have a choice of more than one or two wireless, broadband, or cable providers.

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.

Rural broadband specialist Gigaclear has awarded international fibre - optic products and advanced installation methodologies, Lite Access Technologies, the contract to bring ultrafast, full fibre broadband to more than 10,000 properties to some of the most rural parts of West OxfordsRural broadband specialist Gigaclear has awarded international fibre - optic products and advanced installation methodologies, Lite Access Technologies, the contract to bring ultrafast, full fibre broadband to more than 10,000 properties to some of the most rural parts of West Oxfordsrural parts of West Oxfordshire.

In wealthier urban and suburban areas, most voters will be online and a majority will have broadband access, but even in far - flung rural areas or poorer parts of cities email at least is usually available.

The omnibus spending bill now on the congressional launch pad is a something - for - everyone grab bag that contains a surprising amount of federal money for New York priorities, including rural broadband, the fight against opioidaddiction, and highway, rail and airport improvements.

Much has been made of the ovation that came from her promise to fix rural broadband.

Without the New NY Broadband Program and Governor Cuomo's recognition of the economic challenge of deploying broadband in rural areas, high - speed access throughout the state would not be economically viable.

At 11:25 a.m., U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand will host a roundtable with local businesses and advocates to discuss bolstering efforts to help close the broadband gap in rural areas and create economic development opportunities to bring more good - paying jobs to the North Country, Indian Lake Chamber of Commerce, 6301 NYS Route 30, Indian Lake.

The provision of broadband for rural areas underpins their existence as sustainable communities.

Teachout is a Catherine wheel of ideas — in the course of the day we talked about anti-trust, fracking, the desperate need for broadband in rural communities, the way Big Ag gobbles up subsidies meant for family farmers, and the «chickenization» of production that puts all the economic risk and environmental damage on farmers as firms like Tyson keep squeezing the market.

The Countryside Alliance believes a vibrant countryside needs five key changes and calls on the Government to: SERVICES — Ensure an accessible and reliable rural transport and broadband network HOUSING — Promote local solutions to the lack of affordable rural housing EDUCATION — Enable all children to gain a practical understanding of the countryside FARMING — Support British farmers and producers COUNTRY PURSUITS — Repeal the Hunting Act and champion country pursuits For more information or to arrange interviews please call the Countryside Alliance press office on 0207 840 9220 or 07500 834 163

At 11 a.m., Gibson will meet with members of the media to discuss strategies for rural broadband expansion following a stakeholder meeting, Room 134, Columbia - Greene Community College.

Funiciello also indicated broadband development in the Adirondack Park should not be prioritized in order to preserve the rural character of the state park.

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.

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

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.

Money is going towards «hyper - fast» broadband, although some may be frustrated that millions of rural households still do not have good connectivity.

Remote rural areas of Ulster County are typically where there is little or no broadband at present,» read a press release on the initiative, to be spearheaded by County Deputy Planning Director Chris White.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo continued the roll out of his 2015 agenda Tuesday with details of an infrastructure plan that includes upgrading New York City region airports to providing broadband for upstate rural areas.

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.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R - Willsboro) has co-sponsored two pieces of federal legislation to aid rural communities in receiving high - speed broadband.

So, how does an idea like investing in rural broadband, how does that square with the conservative notion of a smaller federal government?

PLATTSBURGH Rep. Elise Stefanik (R - Willsboro) is reintroducing a pair of bills designed to boost broadband for farmers and rural residents.

Parties familiar with the state's broadband efforts have said the economics in places like the rural Adirondack Park has made it difficult to encourage companies to apply for grants in prior rounds — even with a relatively high state share of costs.

It is certainly of concern that children in these more rural schools may be denied access to the latest, most innovative digital education learning content because of a mismatch in broadband and connectivity, as the findings of our research implied.

As we have touched upon earlier, some schools, generally those based in more rural areas, lag behind in the strength of their Wi - Fi connectivity and broadband provision (Information and Communication Technology in UK State Schools, BESA, 2014).

Brian Wilson, director at Rural England, who wrote the report, said: «A lack of a fast broadband connection is an issue in a lot of rural plRural England, who wrote the report, said: «A lack of a fast broadband connection is an issue in a lot of rural plrural places.

While many of the nation's children have access to super-fast cable and fiber internet because they live in urban areas, large rural areas of the country have broadband internet only because of satellite internet technology.

The association has a point: Within the past decade, more than $ 200 million in federal stimulus funds, plus millions more from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, have been spent in New Mexico alone on efforts to extend high - speed broadband networks to rural areas.

Along with EducationSuperHighway, a group of state agencies is working with Governor Susana Martinez's office to tackle New Mexico's rural - school - broadband problem.

If it can happen here, FCC officials and school - broadband advocates would like to believe, it can happen in the rest of rural America, too.

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.

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.

Elimination of the regulations raises several concerns for school districts, including potential pass - through costs associated with data - heavy digital learning initiatives; a less innovative education technology environment based on potential discriminatory pricing for new market entrants; and heightened pricing and other vulnerabilities for rural and high cost districts that may only have access to a single broadband carrier.

It also was expected to allow the University of Wisconsin to continue to receive about $ 40 million in federal money to pay for making broadband Internet access available in rural areas, reversing a change the budget committee had made taking away that funding.

March / April 2018: Urban, Suburban, Rural, and Frontier — This issue will shine a light on various types of school communities, providing strategies for universal challenges such as parent engagement, afterschool and summer learning, technology and broadband connectivity, teacher recruiting and retention, poverty, and wrap - around services.

The challenges facing rural schools are staggering — concentrated poverty, inadequate access to health care services, early childhood education and after - school programs, ballooning class size, high transportation costs, teacher shortages, and lack of broadband access.

And in California's rural Central Valley, Jerry Waymire, the assistant superintendent for information technology for the Kings County Office of Education, has spearheaded construction of a broadband network in several districts, including Corcoran Joint Unified.

WASHINGTON, DC — In advance of this morning's major announcement from Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler on the federal E-rate program, a new report released today by the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Leading Education by Advancing Digital (LEAD) Commission, and authored by Dr. John B. Horrigan, a leading authority on broadband adoption and use, shows that African American, Latino, low - income, and rural students are more likely to be in schools with slow internet access (10 Mbps or less) than their peers and less likely to be in schools with high - speed broadband internet (100 Mbps or more) needed for digital learning.

Digital learning materials, high capacity broadband, data use, and related professional learning are unevenly distributed across the country — falling especially short of needed levels in rural and poor communities — and greater federal funding is needed to help states and districts address this inequity.

MANITOBA: The recently re-elected NDP Government in its October 2011 throne speech, committed to the modernization of school facilities including science labs, gyms, shop equipment, increased internet broadband access to rural divisions and a new skills and technology centre.

Many London schools operate thriving after - schools clubs but, as Les Ebdon, the Director of the Office for Fair Access, notes, many pupils in rural areas live too far away from their schools to attend these; broadband provision is often dire, too.

The notice highlights rural needs in several of the evaluation criteria, including support for rural broadband deployment where it is part of an eligible transportation project.

The fifth week of the month began on Tuesday, after the Bank holiday Monday, with the BlackBerry Torch 9860 being available with Vodafone, Samsung launched a trio of bada phones, whilst rural communities are to get free broadband from Three and Tetris arrives on Android.

Must be on drugs, in the rural outposts of HK broadband speeds are slow, slower than the UK in fact at about 2.8 MB if lucky.

It's not; much like the huge highway system that has encouraged nothing but sprawl and got us into a whole bunch of environmental messes, rural broadband will abet this trend - in fact, it's merely a follow - on to the process.

And it's fitting too; as the administration is about to pour $ 8 billion into U.S. broadband Internet networks across the country, it appears that most of new lines will be used to digitally light up Rural America.