Auction winners will likely serve between 200,000 and 400,000 rural households and businesses – at best, about 40 percent of those eligible.

Communities need to take all the costs and benefits into account – and if the answer is “yes,” they need to revisit the question every few years.

Regulations for spending the $600 million appropriated in March for rural broadband will be slow in coming. Here’s why.

Highlights of the 2018 Broadband Communities Summit held in May in Austin, Texas

If you’re wondering which rural broadband funding programs to apply for – or which will solve the rural broadband problem – here’s a brief primer.

The Broadband Communities Summit brings together participants in the multifamily, rural, economic development, technology and policy worlds. This issue of the magazine has something for all of them.

Springtime was especially good to rural broadband hopefuls, with new money and potentially more flexible ways of disbursement.

The evolution of technology is enabling cable companies to transition gradually to all-fiber networks.

Technology, economics and political change are driving a very special Broadband Communities Summit this year.

The FCC stacks the deck against broadband in rural and poor urban districts.

The Fiber Broadband Association – formerly the FTTH Council – broadened its technology base but its conference emphasized fiber to the home as the ultimate goal.

Welcome to the world of white boxes (for the haves) and white spaces (for the have-nots).

Carriers already share many network assets, but they aren’t always forthcoming about these relationships. Why not accept the inevitable?

Three award winners illustrate different approaches to connecting the unconnected.

How should a small, agile fiber overbuilder decide where to expand next?

At the 2017 Broadband Communities Summit, held in Dallas in May, fiber deployers shared their experiences and vendors displayed their new technology.