This blog from CENIC explores wireless technologies that could be used by anchor institutions to extend their connectivity. Technologies include Wi-Fi mesh, television white space, Educational Broadband Service, and Citizens Broadband Radio Service.

This paper from the Brookings Institution examines how mobile devices with cellular connectivity improve learning and engage students and teachers. As wireless technology can provide new content and facilitate information access, it will enable and empower learning in new ways.

This resource from BroadbandCommunities Magazine argues that 5G wireless lacks the capacity and cost-effectiveness to address the rural fixed broadband gap. The authors discuss how the 5G requirement for "deep fiber" renders it unlikely to be cost-effective in rural areas and simultaneously gives it the potential to bottleneck service.

The Benton Institute’s Jonathan Sallet examines how community anchor institutions can serve as a launching pad for community-based broadband access and more broadband competition. Communities may be able to share infrastructure in order to bring better commercial services to unserved and underserved areas.

An article that presents findings about broadband un-adopters— those who have their household internet connection discontinued—which represents 12 percent of those without broadband service. As these households represent an important part of broadband adoption, future policy efforts can benefit from understanding their reasons for terminating their connection.

This resource outlines the Broadband Forum's perspective on 5G, the Forum's role of encouraging standardization in this sphere, and the uses and impact of this work.