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Redistributing the future: GreatLand to FCC: We'll keep Internet Essentials
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Our persistent digital divide, its consequences and cures. Thursday, October 2, 2014. GreatLand to FCC: We'll keep Internet Essentials. The infant corporation that hopes to absorb 2.5 million Comcast customers in Detroit, the Twin Cities and other Great Lakes communities now says it will continue Comcast's Internet Essentials program, which provides $10-a-month broadband service to families of schoolchildren who qualify for subsidized school lunches. In joint "reply comments". And, over time, may make ch...
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Redistributing the future: New FCC map of household broadband penetration
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Our persistent digital divide, its consequences and cures. Sunday, July 20, 2014. New FCC map of household broadband penetration. On June 14 the FCC released its semi-annual report on "Local Telephone Competion and Broadband Deployment", based on providers' Form 477 filings from June 2013. As usual, the new report includes data comparing the number of home broadband connections, as reported by the providers, to the total households in each county and Census Tract. While still conservative for 2014. New F...
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Redistributing the future: America's worst-connected big cities: The whole list
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Our persistent digital divide, its consequences and cures. Wednesday, November 5, 2014. America's worst-connected big cities: The whole list. A couple of readers have asked me to post my whole list of 176 U.S. cities with their "worst-connected" ranks. Here are both versions of the complete rankings in PDF format, ready to download. Percentage of households without fixed broadband subscriptions. 8211; 176 U.S. cities with 50,000 or more households. Percentage of households with no Internet access.
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Redistributing the future: Interactive map of city "unconnected household" percentages
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Our persistent digital divide, its consequences and cures. Wednesday, November 12, 2014. Interactive map of city "unconnected household" percentages. Has turned our "Worst Connected Cities". Data into a handy interactive map. Posted by Bill Callahan. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed.". Connect Your Community 2.0. Internet for All Now. National Digital Inclusion Alliance. Mossberger, Tolbert, Franko). Americas worst-connected big cities.
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Redistributing the future: Coalition to FCC: Charter/GreatLand low-cost Internet promises are “far too vague”
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Our persistent digital divide, its consequences and cures. Friday, January 23, 2015. Coalition to FCC: Charter/GreatLand low-cost Internet promises are “far too vague”. The Coalition for Broadband Equity responds. To Charter/Greatland assurances that they'll have low-cost Internet for low-income households after the merger. Includes some updated FCC Form 477 data. For seven cities served by Coalition members:. Posted by Bill Callahan. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Connect Your Community 2.0.
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Redistributing the future: January 2015
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Our persistent digital divide, its consequences and cures. Sunday, January 25, 2015. New home broadband maps of Cleveland and Detroit. Just finished new maps of household broadband penetration in Cleveland and Detroit neighborhoods, based on the FCCs most recent release of Census tract data from providers semi-annual Form 477 reports. Posted by Bill Callahan. Friday, January 23, 2015. Coalition to FCC: Charter/GreatLand low-cost Internet promises are “far too vague”. Posted by Bill Callahan.
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Redistributing the future: City broadband and grassroots wifi
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Our persistent digital divide, its consequences and cures. Friday, March 27, 2015. City broadband and grassroots wifi. Angela Siefer and I have a new guest post up at Cities Speak. The National League of Cities blog. It's called "Municipal Fiber and the Digital Divide: A Modest Proposal". Here’s how: cities could allow neighboring households and community groups to share that terrific bandwidth – and its cost – by using community-owned fiber to power grassroots Wi-Fi networks. Open mesh networks are prov...
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Latinos Need Internet Access
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About Frankie De Soto. Latinos and the Digital Divide. Posted by Frankie De Soto on 15 Dec 2014 / 0 Comment. A colleague of mine, Mari González. Brought something to my attention that perhaps you can help. There are 80 million. I see that about 25%. Of Americans are affected by the “Digital Divide.” They have the inability to access the Internet due to high monthly costs and we need to stop this or else some households, especially children will be left behind as digital natives. And their Facebook page.
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Redistributing the future: November 2014
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Our persistent digital divide, its consequences and cures. Wednesday, November 12, 2014. Taking a cue from Huff Post. Here's a similar map showing only the cities where more than 30% of households said they had no home Internet access of any kind. Notice anything interesting about the geography? Posted by Bill Callahan. Interactive map of city "unconnected household" percentages. Has turned our "Worst Connected Cities". Data into a handy interactive map. Posted by Bill Callahan. Friday, November 7, 2014.
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Redistributing the future: Data wants to be free
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Our persistent digital divide, its consequences and cures. Friday, December 26, 2014. Data wants to be free. From an article posted Sunday in Daily Detroit. That very, very fine print at the very end is the credits. Posted by Bill Callahan. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed.". Connect Your Community 2.0. Internet for All Now. National Digital Inclusion Alliance. Mossberger, Tolbert, Franko). Data wants to be free.
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