Mike Sanders | Guest columnist From downtown Oklahoma City and Tulsa to the far edges of the Panhandle and Ouachita Mountains, high-speed internet is no longer a luxury, it’s a necessity. For decades, the conversation about expanding internet access has taken place without a plan of action. Until now. The Oklahoma Broadband Governing Board recently …
More than $374 million in grants were approved this week by officials with the Oklahoma Broadband Office. The grants, ranging in amounts from $7,000 to Dobson Fiber in Kiowa, to more than $22 million to the Pine Telephone Company in Choctaw, are earmarked for broadband infrastructure projects in 57 counties, the agency’s executive director, Mike …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Spectrum is expanding its services in rural Ray County, Missouri, improving access to high-speed internet near Knoxville and Lawson. Over 770 homes and small businesses in the area will now have access to high-speed broadband reaching 300 megabits per second “Rural broadband is the rural electrification of our time,” Congressman Sam …