This 82-minute video discusses the importance of digital equity and how to build strategies and opportunities for advancing broadband with residents of Fayetteville, North Carolina.

A 30-minute panel discussion about how states and localities are viewing provisions in the 2009 House and Senate stimulus bills for broadband expansion.

This article provides insight into a 2020 law allowing electric co-ops in Virginia to hang fiber in existing electric easements, including those outside their service area. The law, experts say, will make it easier to facilitate broadband deployment projects in rural, unserved parts of the state.

A guide for municipal leaders seeking to bring broadband to unserved areas of Virginia. The paper outlines the benefits of broadband, the challenges of deploying broadband in rural regions, available federal support, and a step-by-step process for leaders to follow.

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The executive summary of a study from 2019, commissioned by the Fiber Broadband Association, exploring the cost of bringing all-fiber networks to the entire United States. The report finds that half of the country will have all-fiber networks by 2025, and could reach 90 percent by 2029 with a total investment of $70 billion.

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This study examines three types of variables (context, methodological choices, and publication characteristics) that have affected the relationship between broadband and firm location. The results show that broadband has a more beneficial effect in urban areas, although not for the finance, real estate, and insurance industries.

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A white paper explaining how the growth of the Internet of Things will impact the electricity grid. However, policymakers and energy industry stakeholders cannot continue to assume that everybody has internet access, because that mindset will result in real-consequences consequences.

An article from October 2021 that looks at how the rise in multiple-dwelling-unit construction represents an opportunity for broadband deployers, particularly smaller companies who can use federal dollars to deliver fiber more cost-effectively.

This article focuses on alternatives to fiber—700 MHz LTE, high-frequency 4G LTE, TV white spaces, and satellite—for bringing cost-effective broadband to rural areas of the United States. The authors’ models show that deploying those technologies would require a capital investment of between $8 billion and $12 billion, and could pay for itself in about six years.

A description of Thundercloud, a nonprofit looking to build a 585-mile fiber network in the nine-county Advantage Valley region of West Virginia. The network will reach underserved areas, boost economic development, and connect anchor institutions.

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An article that reviews the NTIA’s Broadband Equity, Access & Deployment Program, which allocates $42.45 billion for last-mile broadband development. Among the topics discussed are the role of the states, the matching requirement, the challenge process, and the changes made to the FCC’s broadband mapping initiative.

This blog dissects the section of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that allocates $1 billion for middle mile infrastructure. In addition to providing an overview of the program, the piece recommends bringing the energy sector—utilities, electric cooperatives, and oil and gas companies—as partners on middle mile projects.

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A paper from May 2011 estimating the impact of broadband on economic growth in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries. The authors found a 10-percentage point increase in broadband penetration led to annual per capital growth of between 0.9 and 1.5 percentage points.

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Conducted through a literature study, this paper analyzes the impact of broadband spending and deployment initiatives on economic growth. The authors believe that the impact was positive, but several challenges in their research meant that they could not reach definitive conclusions.

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A paper that looks at the potential benefits of deploying broadband in rural areas of Indiana served by electric cooperatives. While the report sees broadband as an attractive investment for the regions, the study raises questions about whether the anticipated revenue would be able to cover the total system costs.

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