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The Broadband DATA Act recently signed into law will look at improving efforts to deploy broadband access to rural portions of the country. Portions of the legislation included the Broadband Data Improvement Act, sponsored by eastern Washington’s Cathy McMorris Rodgers. She ...

On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission approved a rural broadband funding initiative.  The new Rural Digital Opportunity Fund will help finance the deployment of high-speed broadband networks in rural America.  Through a two-phase reverse auction mechanism, the FCC will direct up to $20.4 billion...

The House of Representatives passed legislation last week that will improve the accuracy of broadband coverage maps to better identify needs. The Broadband Deployment Accuracy and Technological Availability Act requires broadband providers to report more specific data to create a significantly more accurate and granular National Broadband Map...