Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. When schools ...

New York’s digital divide has long been a crisis in the making. Two years ago nearly a third of the city's households lacked broadband internet access, and disproportionately those were people of ...

Internet service providers will be vying for some of the FCC’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund today, including Elon Musks’s SpaceX. Its Starlink satellite network allegedly has speeds of up to 100 ...

Cost remains a key determinant for broadband deployment. It is expensive to build physical connections across large distances, especially in rural areas with smaller concentrations of users, resulting ...

Ken Peterman is chair, president, and CEO of Comtech, a global technology company providing terrestrial and wireless network solutions, next-generation 9-1-1 emergency services, satellite and space ...

The Biden administration’s strategy to tackle the digital divide places too much emphasis on wires and competition and too little on people and communities. By proposing $65 billion in broadband ...

COVID-19 has, among other things, brought home the costs of the digital divide. Numerous op-eds have offered solutions, including increasing subsidies to schools, providing eligible low-income people ...

Until recently, discussion of America’s digital divide has focused on disparities in broadband access between rural and urban communities. While rural adults are still less likely than urban adults to ...

A bevy of local experts and students met with Cleveland City Council this morning to discussion the digital divide, that long-running narrative that leaves certain communities in the U.S. with less ...

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