Broadband Development

The federal government has started to announce the first round of grants from the Digital Equity Capacity Grant Program. Vermont will receive just over $5 million to implement its plan to bring high-speed internet to all residents regardless of identity or economic status.

The next steps for New York's “Internet for All” state grant program have been outlined.

Vermont’s effort to bring high-speed internet to the entire state is getting more support from the federal government.

Vermont Senator Peter Welch announced today that he and a bipartisan group of Senators are introducing the Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act.

North Country officials are hoping that a recent announcement of federal funding for broadband infrastructure will help get the service into rural homes that lack high-speed internet.

A report issued today finds that older rural New Yorkers have poor access to healthcare, nutritious food and high-speed internet.

The lack of broadband and how to fix it is the focus of a recent study impacting the Greene County town of Durham.

Albany's new Commission on Municipal Internet Service met this week for the first time.

Columbia County is taking another step toward securing federal funding to bring in blanket broadband coverage.

Money could soon be on the way to upstate New York towns lacking broadband internet services. Democratic Congressman Antonio Delgado says he secured…