"The challenge in rural areas is it's just not economical for ... estimated it would take $40 billion to expand internet access to cover 98 percent of Americans and another $40 billion to deliver ...

Technological gaps handicap rural hospitals as billions in federal funding to modernize infrastructure lags. The reliance on ...

Explore how online entertainment is growing in rural areas through better access, affordable tools, and changing habits. Learn how it’s shaping daily life.

Chris Disher, the co-owner of a rural internet provider in Louisiana, is ready to start digging to get fast and reliable internet to some of the estimated 450,000 households and small businesses in ...

Several hundred people living in a rural part of southeast Hopkins County now have access to Spectrum internet, mobile and TV ...

In her weekly look at local business, Jessica M. Pasko spotlights upcoming events with a focus on improving high-speed ...

New approaches made possible through improved access and Internet connectivity can raise the standard of living for approximately 3.4 billion people living in rural areas, without them having to ...

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in a major challenge to the federal “E-rate program,” which subsidizes telephone and high-speed internet services in schools, libraries, rural ...

New requirements that Social Security recipients access key ... field offices in rural areas with high poverty rates. Often these are the same areas that lack widespread internet service.

Today, about 500,000 Michigan households lack access to reliable high-speed Internet infrastructure ... the expansion work will focus on selected rural areas of Benzie, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska ...

The subsidies for rural and low-income areas were meant to ensure that phone and internet services would remain affordable. A decision is expected by late June.