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(TNS)—Look up: Can you see the sky? If so, chances are good you can connect to the internet with your smartphone without the worry of dead spots. What...

The digital divide — the gap between communities with and without access to high-speed internet — is a prominent issue in Pennsylvania. More than 330,...

Governor Tom Wolf announced that the Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority (Authority) released the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Statewide Br...

One of the COVID-19 pandemic’s ancillary effects was the proof it provided that broadband internet service is an essential public utility rather than ...

According to the state of Pennsylvania, an internet connection of 1.5 megabits per second qualifies as “broadband.” That 30-year-old standard is barel...

A grant of more than $530,000 has been obtained to bring broadband to Hamlin, Keating and Sergeant townships in McKean County. The project will provid...

HARRISBURG — Broadband service improvements are needed across Pennsylvania, but the most significant need is among rural counties, according to a new ...

This past summer, two reports were issued that have real meaning to the agricultural community in Pennsylvania. First was a report from the U.S. Depar...

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey highlighted Monday several benefits to Pennsylvania after President Joe Biden signed the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment a...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Pennsylvania could get a one-stop shop for the hundreds of millions of dollars the state anticipates getting in the coming years to...

Millions of Americans lack access to reliable, high-speed internet service, and the inequality is particularly striking in rural America. The rural br...

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Justin Maxson today announced that USDA is seeking...

As Pennsylvania charts a path forward from the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, a recent analysis of census data conducted by Stateline, an initi...

HARRISBURG — Three companies — including Elon Musk’s SpaceX — have been awarded federal funding to bring broadband to more than 5,300 homes in the loc...

Whether it’s for online schooling, work meetings, paying bills, ordering goods and services, watching streaming services or just keeping in touch with...

QUINCY, Mass. — Atlantic Broadband, the eighth-largest cable operator in the U.S., will provide broadband connectivity at discounted prices for financ...

HARRISBURG — State policymakers tend to get easily sidetracked to focus on issues demanding immediate attention. This often means the overshadowing of...

In an ideal world powered by an ideal economy, extension of and improvements to America’s infrastructure would be developer-driven. But the ideal is s...

Pennsylvania, like many other states, has a digital divide that separates the haves from the have-nots. And at no other time has this divide seemed wi...

Rural areas across the country faced challenging development problems — which were key drivers in the past two presidential election cycles — long bef...