Published on: 2025-04-20 10:00:09
All across the country, a group of connectivity experts teaches locals, old and young, about the benefits of getting online. These workers, called Digital Navigators, link people in the community with the resources and opportunities they don't know exist, like arranging online health appointments, applying for jobs, doing homework and making their businesses visible on the internet. But the grant funding the Digital Navigators is one of many programs currently at risk. Under the Biden administ
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Any changes to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment should be optional rather than mandatory, a group of 115 state legislators from 28 states said in a letter on Thursday to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. It comes after BEAD recently lost its top director, who departed with a scathing letter alleging an impending shift in funding toward Elon Musk's satellite internet company, Starlink. Starlink could receive $10 billion to $20 billion of BEAD -- up from the $4.1 billion it was expec
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Any changes to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment should be optional rather than mandatory, a group of 115 state legislators from 28 states said in a letter on Thursday to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. It comes after BEAD recently lost its top director, who departed with a scathing letter alleging an impending shift in funding toward Elon Musk’s satellite internet company, Starlink. The $42.5 billion broadband infrastructure investment was passed in 2021, and has come under fire
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is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Fiber internet providers are worried they won’t see the funds promised under a Biden-era initiative that would bring reliable internet service to rural areas. Louisiana fiber internet provider Cajun Broadband was granted $33 million as part of the plan, but the “money isn’t flowing” and concerns are growing over whether the new administration will p
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The director of the largest broadband program in US history bid farewell to his colleagues in a spirited email on March 16. Among other things, he warned that millions of rural Americans could get stuck with slow internet speeds if rules are changed to favor Elon Musk’s satellite internet company, Starlink. His farewell email to colleagues, first reported by ProPublica’s Craig Silverman in a Bluesky post, sounds the alarm on proposed changes to the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment progra
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America's most expensive broadband investment ever just lost its top leader and supporter, Evan Feinman. Feinman issued a sharp warning to colleagues in an email Sunday morning that millions of rural Americans could get stuck with slow internet speeds if rules are changed to favor Elon Musk’s satellite internet company Starlink. In a CNET interview, Feinman echoes this warning and provides advice for consumers. His farewell email to colleagues, first reported by ProPublica’s Craig Silverman in
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The director of the largest federal broadband program in US history bid farewell to his colleagues in a spirited email Sunday morning. Among other things, Evan Feinman warned that millions of rural Americans could get stuck with slow internet speeds if rules are changed to favor Elon Musk’s satellite internet company Starlink. Until March 16, Feinman was the director of the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program, a $42.5 billion fund passed as part of the Infrastructure Investment and
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The US Department of Commerce is changing the requirements for the Biden administration's Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. Another day, another move from the Trump administration that will benefit Elon Musk — shocking. The US Department of Commerce has announced an overhaul of 2021's Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program and its $42.5 billion that will funnel work to Musk's Starlink. The BEAD program was originally designed to give states funding for f
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That's gotta hurt. With a whopping seven recalls in just over a year — and a fire fatality rate exceeding the infamous Ford Pinto— it's never been a particularly great time to be a Cybertruck owner. But now, thanks to the political meddling of billionaire Tesla owner Elon Musk, it might be worse than ever. That's what some Cybertruck drivers discovered firsthand at a Lundi Gras parade on Monday — the "Fat Monday" preamble to the famed Mardi Gras — when their hulking electric tanks were endless
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That's gotta hurt. With a whopping seven recalls in just over a year — and a fire fatality rate exceeding the infamous Ford Pinto— it's never been a particularly great time to be a Cybertruck owner. But now, thanks to the political meddling of billionaire Tesla owner Elon Musk, it might be worse than ever. That's what some Cybertruck drivers discovered firsthand at a Lundi Gras parade on Monday — the "Fat Monday" preamble to the famed Mardi Gras — when their hulking electric tanks were endless
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An orange Cybertruck from Texas with the license plate DUMPST5R took part in the Krewe of Orpheus parade in New Orleans Monday night as part of the kickoff of Mardi Gras. It left the parade route early after fairgoers threw so many beads and pieces of debris at the truck that it chipped the vehicle’s glass. DUMPST5R the orange Cybertruck from Texas is owned by winespring, a woman who blogs about the food in the Wheel of Time fantasy franchise, and MrMoonBound, a man whose account on X links to
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