News

As part of the ConnectED Initiative, the president announced a plan to offer free e-books to low income students....

The White House announced it is seeking public comments on how federal agencies can promote broadband deployment, adoption, and competition. Comments are due on June 10, 2015....

The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) is seeking comments on its Second Notice of Further Proposed Interpretations of Parts of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012....

This month’s map analyzes the Broadband Outreach Center’s three broadband use cases (Basic Consumer, Home Office/Education, & High Capacity) and takes the highest use case available in a location and assigns...

Recently, the United States Department of Agriculture consolidated the Rural Business Enterprise Grants (RBEG) and Rural Business Opportunity Grants (RBOG) into a new Rural Business Development Grant (RBDG) Program. Applications are...

We’re hiring a Project Coordinator to join the Utah Broadband Outreach Center team.  The Coordinator will be a full-time employee based in the Governor’s Office of Economic Development....

Recently, Akamai Technologies released its Fourth Quarter, 2014 State of the Internet Report ranking Utah among the fastest in the country for average connection speeds. Using this data, the Washington Post pointed...

The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today announced it will be releasing the second phase of previously-awarded grant funding for states and territories to begin collecting...

The Utah State Legislature recently passed HB 414, which creates the Utah Broadband Outreach Center within the Governor’s Office of Economic Development and allocates funding for a three year period....

Over the past 4 years, the demand for fast mobile broadband (Internet accessed through a portable mobile device) has greatly increased. Fast mobile broadband is critical for communications in public...