Published on: 2025-05-27 10:44:00
Digital divide advocates can breathe a tentative sigh of relief, as the Supreme Court appeared reluctant to dismantle the Universal Service Fund (USF), a program that spends close to $9 billion a year to help low-income and rural Americans access phone and internet service, as well as schools, libraries and hospitals. The conservative non-profit Consumers’ Research first brought its case against the Federal Communications Commission all the way back in 2022, but it feels particularly of the mom
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Howard Lutnick, commerce secretary under President Trump, told leaders of the government’s rural broadband initiative to prioritize less reliable satellite connectivity over ground-based broadband—and specifically recommended Elon Musk’s Starlink. That is according to the Financial Times, which reports that Lutnick “mentioned Musk by name.” The comments came from Evan Feinman, who ran the rural broadband program until being pushed out last week. “The clear thrust of his directive was to increas
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Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? While most estimates place the current human population at around 8.2 billion, a new study suggests we might be vastly underrepresenting rural areas. By analyzing 300 rural dam projects across 35 countries, researchers from Aalto University in Finland found discrepancies among these independent population counts and other population data gathered between 1975 and 2010. Such under
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Main implications of the results. The findings from this study hold significant implications for a wide array of research and policy fields that consider rural areas and their populations, including disaster preparedness, public health planning, environmental conservation, and, ultimately, sustainable development. We assessed the accuracy of global gridded population datasets specifically in rural areas around the globe using reported human resettlement numbers from over 300 dam projects, which
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A federal broadband official departed the US government with a warning that a Trump administration plan will strand rural Americans with worse Internet access in order to help Elon Musk secure public money for Starlink. "Stranding all or part of rural America with worse Internet so that we can make the world's richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington," wrote Evan Feinman, who had been a Commerce Department official and director of the $42.45 billion Broad
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