Sentences with phrase «rural broadband access»

Microsoft wants to improve rural broadband access by using TV white spaces spectrum, and eliminate the gap across the US over the next five years.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

The service could be especially useful for those living in rural areas where broadband access is currently limited and allegedly can provide «fiber - like speeds.»

Nimmo is among the many rural folk, even in developed countries, that can't get broadband access.

And so there is the $ 225 - million plan to extend broadband access across Canada, particularly in rural communities.

Lower marginal rates won't create opportunity in impoverished rural towns, but universal access to broadband would.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

He talked about the need for better broadband access and transport links to ensure rural firms could compete on a level playing field with urban businesses.

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.

«Access to rural broadband is crucial for Western New Yorkers,» said Congressman Collins.

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.

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.

«If every small town in rural America and Native American reservations had access to affordable rapid broadband, tomorrow they would all immediately be in the national economy and they could change their own futures,» he said.

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

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.

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.

Since rural areas aren't always blessed with the fastest broadband connections and many other internet service providers don't cover rural areas, satellite internet may be the best way to gain high - speed access to the web.

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.

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.

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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.

She said there were «some gaps» in broadband access at some schools, but mostly in small rural districts.

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.

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.

For example, rural schools face uneven broadband access and infrastructure to support technology - based instructional tools as well as capacity challenges with small staffs in adopting what may be a radically different instructional orientation.

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.

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.

However; the wrinkles do not end here, back in 2007 the province made a high profile commitment to provide broadband internet access to rural Nova Scotia, which, as we can see hasn't quite been fully achieved yet.

Despite the promise of wireless broadband, it's unlikely to make a major dent in solving the rural access problem, according to Christopher Mitchell, director of community broadband networks at the Institute for Local Self Reliance.

Despite progress with the NBN roll - out, many rural and remote communities still do not have access to broadband sufficient to support telehealth — particularly those communities only able to access satellite broadband.

One of the continuing issues in rural and remote communities that impacts health and all sectors is the need for reliable, stable access to high - speed broadband.