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A recent Forbes Magazine article, “To Spark Growth, Focus on the Next Generation of Broadband,” stressed the importance of broadband development in creating economic growth....

Is the broadband slow in your neighborhood?  If your video’s weird and your speed is no good, we ain’t afraid of no challenge. Are you struggling with your local broadband connections, but...

For February’s Map of the Month, we take a look at broadband infrastructure along the Point of the Mountain.  Following the decision to relocate the Utah State Prison, new coordinated...

On January 23rd, President Trump appointed Commissioner Ajit Pai as Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).  Chairman Pai was the most senior republican of the FCC, and has served...

To celebrate the upcoming launch of the Utah Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Bus, the Broadband Outreach Center recently did an analysis of residential broadband coverage in each of...

The Pew Research Center reports nine in ten Americans today are online, and technology adoption and usage is growing rapidly.  Driving online activity, in part, is the finding that 77%...

The Broadband Opportunity Council (BOC) recently published a progress report detailing actions of the interagency council tasked with improving broadband outcomes through reasonable executive action.  The BOC was created in...

Updated January 27, 2017 So far, there seems to be strong bi-partisan support for broadband in the 115th congress.  Several items of legislation from the 114th Congress have stuck around,...

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) adopted two final rulings last month to help ensure that residents in public housing have access to broadband Internet.  The new rules...

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is now accepting applications for the Community Connect grant program.  Community Connect is designed to fund broadband deployments for rural communities that are...