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Posts Tagged ‘Digital Divide’

New Program Offers Internet Discounts in Kansas City

By | August 2, 2023 | 1
A laptop logged into a program offering internet discounts.

Kansas City area residents can get internet discounts under a new program addressing the digital divide involving the FCC and local nonprofits.

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‘Dial Up Was Faster’: Rural Folks Still Struggle for Reliable Internet

By | February 23, 2022 | 0
Wireless router and woman using a laptop in office.

Government funding means rural broadband is expanding, but many still struggling for decent connectivity.

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It Takes A Village to Reach Rural Broadband Fringe

By | May 6, 2021 | 0
A grain elevator in Turney, Missouri, looms large over the small community. An elevator in neighboring Stewartsville will be the location of the intelligent router sending broadband signals to the village.

U.S. Ignite broadband experiment finds a host in a tiny Missouri village.

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Internet ‘Last Mile’ Experiment Coming to Clinton County

By | April 13, 2021 | 0
Elon Musk’s Starlink internet uses satellites in space to beam wireless internet connections to Earth.

New internet technology is being tested in rural Missouri to reach across the last mile.

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curiousKC | Addressing the Homework Gap

By | April 12, 2021 | 0
The Black family's satellite outside of their home. When it snows, they have to knock packed snow off of the dish to get a connection.

Remote schooling shows digital divide in Kansas and Missouri schools.

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