This past winter, one of us, Alister, was speaking with the daughter of an elderly patient at a community health center in Boston. Her mother had recently been admitted to a local hospital for ...

Dan Drljaca lives in a Wisconsin town with no stoplights and one high-speed internet provider that charges $65 a month for broadband service. That’s too steep for Drljaca, 65, who lives on limited ...

Connected Dallas offers drop-in sites where people can use the internet and computers, as well as take classes and get tech support. The program says many of its clients lost a monthly internet ...

Connie Bryant of McCreary County first got internet at her home during the pandemic when she and her family began homeschooling her granddaughter. Bryant might lose her connection this April when the ...

The Affordable Connectivity Program, a $14.2 billion federal effort to make internet service more affordable, is expected to run out of funding this spring. By Madeleine Ngo Reporting from Washington ...

While the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program hadn't connected anyone to the internet yet as of November 2025, it was expected to begin doing so within the next year. Some of his ...