WASHINGTON, D.C. — Despite bipartisan support, a popular federal program that subsidizes internet access for tens of millions of low-income Americans is on track to expire at the end of the month. The Affordable Connectivity Program shaves $30 off each monthly internet bill and $75 per month for households on qualifying Tribal lands. Eligible households can also receive …
More than 20 million low-income households are at risk of being priced out of internet access unless Congress can reach agreement on funding for a program that provides internet service discounts. Supporters of the Affordable Connectivity Program are pressing for passage of bipartisan, bicameral legislation to keep it afloat past April, when funding is expected to run …
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Gunfire the night of New Year’s Eve led to an internet outage that impacted Columbus residents for nearly two days. Man fakes blindness before showing gun in Centerburg bank Spectrum customers in the Hilltop, one of Columbus’ largest neighborhoods, faced an internet outage for over 43 hours at the start of …
The following article was originally published in the Ohio Capital Journal and published on News5Cleveland.com under a content-sharing agreement. Most households in Ohio’s Appalachian counties don’t have reliable access to the internet. About 75% of people and about a third of households in Ohio’s 32 Appalachian counties don’t have access to the Federal Communications Commission’s …
Most households in Ohio’s Appalachian counties don’t have reliable access to the internet. About 75% of people and about a third of households in Ohio’s 32 Appalachian counties don’t have access to the Federal Communications Commission’s bare minimum internet speed, according to Connecting Appalachia, an advocate for last-mile broadband deployment in Appalachian Ohio. “A lot …
Remember what you searched for in 2023? Well, Wikipedia has the receipts. English Wikipedia raked in more than 84 billion views this year, according to numbers released Tuesday by the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind the free, publicly edited online encyclopedia. And the most popular article was about ChatGPT (yes, the AI chatbot that’s seemingly everywhere today). What You Need To …
The flatlands of Oakland is where the city’s digital divide is most pronounced. From West Oakland all the way into deep East Oakland, areas with the highest concentration of low-income residents, an estimated 37,000 households do not have high-quality access to the internet. While nearby Silicon Valley money has made the price of real estate …