Learn about how we can address rural Broadband in Michigan
Watch the video below. Read the book. Contact us about rural Michigan Broadband and our training programs launching in 2022. The CBAN team hosted a…
Category: Broadband
Broadband Internet Access GIS Maps
Here is a story map that uses ARCGIS from ESRI to visualize data about Internet access by County. As funds are now being allocated for…
What Michigan can learn from Nebraska about Broadband
Billions of dollars are now flowing for Broadband Internet. How will they be spent? Will we subsidize existing monopolies or support locally run infrastructure? In…
Michigan Chapter Internet Society, Kickoff Meeting June 30, 2021
#InternetForAll – Learn about how we can expand Broadband access in Michigan to become better, faster and cheaper than current approaches. This is the kick…
Washington post: Verizon wants your fish
We have been talking about the difference between giving people fish, teaching them to fish and changing the fishing industry. We are now witnessing Government…
Biden Administration Decides Cities Should Not Use Broadband Dollars for Broadband
Earlier this year in March, the Biden Administration signed the American Rescue Plan Act, which included, among many other things, multiple sources of funds for broadband…
Show Us the Money: Federal Broadband Support During COVID-19
Benton Institute for Broadband & Society: A summary of Congressionally-appropriated, broadband-related funding during the pandemic Source: Show Us the Money: Federal Broadband Support During the…
Non-profits should compete for government funding to extend Broadband
Elsewhere on this website, we have already shown that the incremental cost of connecting an individual home to Broadband can be less than $200. Of…
Government grants per household to connect broadband average between $7K and $8k
What are the pros and cons of less expensive alternatives and who is providing them? What are the opportunities to lower the cost per household?…
Financing Broadband: Mutual Aid in the Time of COVID-19
Originally published April 18, 2020 NeighborSquad The silver lining in the cloud of our current pandemic with COVID-19 is the opportunity to challenge previous assumptions…