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Broadband networks rank among the most important infrastructure assets of our time—for purposes of economic development and competitiveness, innovation, workforce preparedness, health care, education, and environmental sustainability. In the brief...

Not long after the full force of the COVID-19 pandemic hit New York City, the New York Times ran an article about a group of restaurant workers who were manufacturing masks to help protect people from the virus’s spread. These restaurant workers p...

Our cities are changing at an incredible pace. The technology being deployed on our sidewalks and streetlights has the potential to improve mobility, sustainability, connectivity, and city services. Public value and public inclusion in this change...

Since 1981, the Benton Foundation has fought for a singular goal: to bring open, affordable, highcapacity broadband to all people in the United States to ensure a thriving democracy – and to deliver new opportunities and strengthen communities to ...

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act’s investment in broadband infrastructure and digital equity sets out an ambitious overarching goal: internet for all. States are responsible for developing and measuring the key performance indicators (KP...

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was signed into law on November 15, 2021, to ensure universal access to affordable, reliable, high-speed internet service across the United States. The law identifies Veterans as one of eight “covered pop...

As more and more essential services and activities move online, people have less and less of a choice about whether or not to participate in the digital world. Yet expanded internet use can bring with it increased risk. Currently, unprecedented le...

Broadband is essential for modern life. It is fundamental for education, health care, employment, entrepreneurship, community development, entertainment, real estate, government services, and public safety. Communities without broadband—roughly 8 ...

The end of the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) may result in millions of households either eliminating or downgrading broadband service. This, in turn, could mean over $2 billion in lost consumer financial benefits and service delivery effic...

Broadband champions can be the decisive factors in efforts to improve community connectivity. The work of broadband champions has been shaped by the particularities of their broadband contexts: the local political will, the existing providers, the...

Vermont State Representative Laura Sibilia (I–Windham-Bennington) had long been frustrated with broadband service in her state. In 2019, the Vermont Department of Public Service found that nearly a quarter of Vermont addresses lacked service that ...

This research project was inspired by, and only possible because of, the women who participated in the interviews and surveys. I extend my deepest gratitude to the 126 participants, extending from the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles to Milw...

The Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) raises new questions about the economic impact of broadband. Does the internet access that ACP subsidy makes possible create financial benefits for subscribers that might not otherwise happen? And do those...

For decades, public broadband networks have been successfully serving hundreds of communities with fast, robust, and affordable internet access. Unlike private-sector networks, municipal, tribal, and other community- and member-owned broadband net...

How should broadband adoption, affordability, and equity impact the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s assessment of the availability of broadband for all Americans? A review of recent research indicates that it is not enough for networks t...

Imagine you live in a rural community where your kids cannot access a remote classroom or do homework online while you try to log into work because your home does not have the broadband connectivity it needs. Your cell phone does not work a quarte...

Conversations about rural broadband access tend to focus on connections to homes and businesses, but precision agriculture increasingly requires reliable connectivity to the farm office and the field. In the field, farmers rely on wireless connect...

Our persistent digital divide is a barrier to our economic competitiveness and equitabledistribution of essential public services, including health care and education. And thedigital divide exacerbates existing, wealth and income gaps, especially ...

Many of the suggestions in this guidebook are based on digital equity programming that the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society conducted in its home state of Illinois—Illinois Connected Communities and the Accelerate Illinois Broadband In...