Montana Internet celebrates fiber internet project

Montana Internet celebrates fiber internet project

Montana Internet, Helena’s first internet service provider, said it is now the first to offer fiber internet to several underserved areas across Lewis and Clark County. The company has an initiative to connect hundreds of homes and businesses in Helena Valley Northeast along Lincoln Road between I-15 and the Causeway. At the end of last …

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Schools contemplate student cellphone use

Schools contemplate student cellphone use

Cellphones in public schools are all the buzz right now, at times overwhelmingly so. With so many entertaining reels, feeds and notifications at students’ fingertips, handheld devices command a lot of attention, even during class time. As summer break approaches in Roanoke, school officials are pondering new student cellphone policies for next academic year. The …

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OUTSIDE VIEW: Texans are in desperate need of expiring federal internet subsidy | Opinion

OUTSIDE VIEW: Texans are in desperate need of expiring federal internet subsidy | Opinion

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Internet pioneer Dan Lynch dies in St. Helena at 82

Internet pioneer Dan Lynch dies in St. Helena at 82

ST. HELENA — Dan Lynch, an early internet pioneer who helped develop and popularize the language computers use to communicate, died March 30 at his St. Helena home at age 82. In the 1970s Lynch helped develop TCP/IP protocols, in conjunction with Bolt, Beranek and Newman, while working at Stanford Research Institute International. Lynch was manager …

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New cable internet company in Missoula

New cable internet company in Missoula

Tava Smathers, an adjunct instructor at the University of Montana, teaches future school librarians via an online platform. For her job, high-speed, reliable internet service is crucial. So she was ecstatic on Monday morning to be the first customer of TDS Telecom in Missoula. The company will be installing fiber-optic internet in Missoula and Lolo, …

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Nebraska ‘in a good position’ to deliver internet for all

Nebraska ‘in a good position’ to deliver internet for all

Nebraska is “in a good position” funding-wise to deliver broadband internet to the state’s unserved and underserved areas, opening opportunities in telehealth and precision agriculture, a federal official said last week. Brendan Carr, a member of the Federal Communications Commission, spoke after attending a roundtable meeting on Tuesday hosted by U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., …

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Bids open for companies to provide broadband internet to remaining homes in Burke

Bids open for companies to provide broadband internet to remaining homes in Burke

BY SHARON MCBRAYER Staff Writer Efforts are continuing to bring high-speed internet access to communities across North Carolina, including Burke County, according to the state. Burke County officials have said that 100% of homes and businesses in the county should have access to broadband internet by the end of 2026. The N.C. Department of Information …

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Phase 2 of broadband internet access moving forward

Phase 2 of broadband internet access moving forward

Communities in the East Central, North East, South Central and Southeast parts of Lee County will receive high-speed broadband coverage in the second phase of the expansion projects. In Monday’s meeting, the Lee County Commission voted to move forward with the next phase of the Lee County Broadband Expansion Grant program. Up to $3.4 million …

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Use common sense in protecting yourself from telephone and internet scams | Commentary

Use common sense in protecting yourself from telephone and internet scams | Commentary

In today’s digital age, the threat of phishing scams looms large, posing a significant risk to individuals, businesses and organizations worldwide. Common phishing scams can be most accurately defined as the tactics would-be cybercriminals employ to trick individuals into divulging sensitive information such as passwords, credit card numbers and personal data. Once compromised, this information …

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Biden’s war against the internet | Commentary

Biden’s war against the internet | Commentary

It’s a miracle of private sector innovation and the magic of the free enterprise system that technologies that were only the playthings of the super-rich a generation ago are now available and affordable to almost all Americans. Back in 2000, only half of Americans had internet access. Now it’s 92%. Today, nearly 19 out of …

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