Although Republicans recoiled when President Joe Biden unveiled his sweeping infrastructure plan in March, a bipartisan group of senators has thrown its support behind one of the less conventional ideas in the package: making a massive investment in broadband networks. But as crucial as ...
STAR CITY – Star City Council held a special meeting Thursday evening to observe a presentation and have a discussion related to a potential agreement between the town and Atlantic Broadband. The town, which is serviced by Comcast and Clear Fiber in relation to its cable and internet ...
MORGANTOWN — To get where you want to go, it helps to know where you are. The Monongalia County Commission wants broadband access for every resident in the county. In May, the commission ponied up $250,657 to hire Ice Miller Whiteboard to put together a comprehensive, county-wide ...
Too many people across the country are left behind because they don't have reliable, affordable access to the internet. But a bipartisan push to close this digital divide would be $1 billion well spent. The Digital Equity Act, reintroduced last week by U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, would offer ...
Newsroom@DominionPost.com CHARLESTON — AARP West Virginia is encouraging Mountain State residents who are without access to high-speed internet or struggling to afford it to look into the recently launched Emergency Broadband Benefit program. The EBB is a $3.2 billion Federal ...
MORGANTOWN -- Nine months. That, according to Ice Miller Whiteboard’s Lindsay Miller, is how long it will take to pull Monongalia County’s comprehensive broadband plan together. Miller explained as much during a Wednesday work session that included the Monongalia County Commission ...