This report assesses the current status of broadband availability in North Carolina and offers strategies to achieve universal access. The chief recommendations focus on incentivizing investment in next generation, future-proof infrastructure and reducing barriers to deployment, creating community-based adoption and use programs, closing the "homework gap," facilitating integration of broadband into economic development strategies, and leveraging the influence telehealth technologies have on household broadband adoption and use.

This report details the current status and future needs of broadband in New Hampshire, along with recommendations for regional planning. The chief recommendations focus on establishing a broadband authority and broadband council, eliminating barriers to broadband availability, encouraging competition to improve broadband affordability, coordinating and promoting training to increase adoption, and monitoring broadband availability and adoption.

The New America Open Technology Institute details how community and tribal broadband networks have succeeded in connecting unserved communities, challenged incumbent private-sector providers to deliver higher-quality and more affordable internet, and expanded opportunities for education, job creation, and economic growth. While more than 900 communities are served by such networks today, as many as 20 states have laws preventing localities from forming such networks: this report argues these restrictive state laws should be repealed.

The Minnesota Broadband Infrastructure Plan details the elements of the state’s efforts to engage communities and providers with broadband issues. The plan consists of four interacting elements: statutory goals, data and mapping, broadband office, and program tools. The goals of achieving universal access to speeds of 25/3 Mbps by 2022 and 100/20 Mbps by 2026 function as the compass points that direct the other elements of the plan.

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the fiscal circumstances of many regions and communities recognized the necessity of high-speed broadband as an element of infrastructure. This conversation from the Milken Institute's Global Conference between cross-sector leaders focuses on pathways to 21st century infrastructure solutions that can help distressed communities across the United States.

The State of Maine Broadband Action Plan of 2020 is a report of strategies for Maine. The plan to build out high speed, affordable internet is based on a community planning model which will rely on public/private partnerships. Instead of using a reverse auction to award projects, Maine will use a two-track grant/loan process that requires matches from providers and community support.

This episode of The Divide podcast provides perspective on Project Overcome from Mari Silbey, director of partnerships and outreach at US Ignite, as well as Alex Wyglinski and Casey Canfield, engineering professors and co-leads on a broadband deployment project in Clinton County, Missouri. Project Overcome funds novel broadband projects.

This 2019 update on the KentuckyWired Network describes the next steps in the network's project to build an approximately 3,300-mile-long middle mile broadband network to provide affordable broadband statewide.

This blog post by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies argues that a long-term solution to lack of broadband and device access among Black Americans is needed.

This resource reports that Black communities in the Rural South lack affordable, high-speed, quality broadband, and argues that expanding broadband could help reduce the deep racial and economic inequalities in education, jobs, and healthcare in the region, with policy recommendations.

In this testimony, Joanne Hovis, president of CTC Technology & Energy, makes the case before the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology that broadband infrastructure should be included in any infrastructure investment program.

This report explains the many challenges that rural entrepreneurs in Iowa face and some ways to improve this issue. One of the main programs focused on this is the Rural Innovation Grant Program, which it argues must continue to grow and receive funding.

This report explains the City and County of San Francisco's (City) plans to address the need for essential high‐speed, affordable broadband services in the City through a ubiquitous fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network.

This resource documents the ongoing list of American Rescue Plan-funded city, county, and state projects that are under consideration, have been announced, or are under way. Projects are arranged alphabetically by state and organized by whether they are under consideration or are planned.

This resource showcases the diverse range of approaches communities and local internet service providers (ISP) have taken to expand affordable, high-quality internet access in Minnesota. It includes a series of case studies that detail how communities are meeting the connectivity challenges of a broken marketplace shaped by large monopoly service providers.