The $3.2 billion temporary Emergency Broadband Benefit program opens for enrollment May 12, offering eligible households monthly financial assistance to get high-speed internet service, The Wall ...

Finding low-cost internet is becoming increasingly more difficult with rising prices and decreased support for low-income families. The Affordable Connectivity Program was shuttered in June 2024, ...

Updated May 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM EDT West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey last week unveiled a shake-up to a federally subsidized broadband program that gained little notice. That came as no surprise. It ...

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick will reportedly change BEAD's rules to funnel additional billions to Elon Musk's Starlink. Republicans haven't passed up many opportunities to criticize the Broadband ...

“We’re going to provide affordable high-speed internet for every American—rural, urban, suburban, and tribal communities,” said Joe Biden in his State of the Union address in 2022, referring to the ...

Residents of western North Carolina gather near a fire station last fall to access Wi-Fi service in the wake of Hurricane Helene. The region is among the areas meant to benefit from the BEAD program ...

Elon Musk speaks during a press conference in the Oval Office (Francis Chung/Press Pool) Musk looked poised to benefit from the Commerce Department's expected overhaul of a $42.5 billion program that ...

Policy and other changes have slowed the rollout of the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program. Internet providers, residents and others are frustrated by its lack of tangible results.

A 2021 program was intended to expand internet access. But federal eligibility changes could exclude some of the state’s ...

YORK, Neb. (KOLN) - Thanks to a federal/state program expanding broadband access, York County will have nearly all locations covered. There has been one completed expansion project and another which ...