Broadband and Technology

With online tools filling the void left by social distancing, rural America's lack of affordable broadband is more obvious than ever. Policy analyst Harold Feld says the best way to address the nation's health emergency is to provide a…

A new project places a simple telehealth service in barbershops and hair salons. The experiment will test interest in such healthcare and see whether community-based telehealth service could help expand broadband access.

Rural customers abandon their landline phone services for different reasons. Here's one we hadn't heard before.

After a $50 million investment in a fiber-to-the-home network, two Eastern Kentucky counties are starting to reap benefits, according to local leaders.

A tech project that formed to serve Cape Girardeau, Missouri, will expand its work to rural communities with the support of a U.S. Economic Development Administration grant. The project is among the first set of rural grantees for the…

The mortality rate in a rural community that loses a hospital increases by an average of 5.9 percent, researchers at the University of Washington report. / City celebrates its role in desegregation 63 years later / Ethanol manufacturers…

What good is a broadband network if you can’t afford to subscribe or don’t know how to use it? By these measurements, the U.S. has a long way to go not just in rural areas but in urban ones as well.

A first-of-its-kind study finds that houses where broadband is available are worth more on the market than houses without broadband availability. But the returns for “super-fast” speeds are lower than those for just having some type of…

Minnesota’s state broadband grant program has been praised as one of the nation’s best – but that doesn’t mean it can’t be improved, according to the bill’s author.