Database Category: Digital Divide

It’s no secret – students need the internet. But without reliable access and time to spend in digital environments, rural students are falling behind their urban counterparts.

This research presents evidence on the relationship between broadband pricing and labor market outcomes for low-income individuals.

Cell towers posing as palms, pines? That’s so L.A. A gentle breeze rustles the eucalyptus tree, its dark green foliage quivering under a cloudy Santa Ana sky.

In early 2020, talks of preparation for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) were furiously circulating around the healthcare system nationwide, and having seen what was occurring in China, and later in Italy, we feared what was to come.

Best Best & Krieger LLP, together with Spiegel & McDiarmid, filed reply briefs Wednesday asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a decision by the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that upholds FCC rules limiting local authority to control the placement of small wireless facilities and to obtain fair rents for use of public […]

Our nation’s vast resources and technological capabilities have never been greater, nor has the need for all Americans to be connected.

The Wireline Competition Bureau of the FCC will soon open a comments period, seeking input on how to best distribute the $7.1 billion Emergency Connectivity Fund (ECF), aimed at helping close the so called homework gap.

The digital divide limits opportunities for those without ready access to Internet. Movement online of essential activities during COVID-19 took inadequate Internet service from inconvenient to emergency/crisis for many households. A negative correlation between rurality and Internet speed was found at the county level, highlighting the struggle for rural areas.

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