Rural broadband

States, local governments and internet providers have until Friday, Jan. 13 to challenge the Federal Communications Commission’s National Broadband Map. The map shows where service is and isn’t across the country.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture allocated $40 million in loans and grants to telecommunications companies to build high-speed internet networks in rural parts of Illinois and Missouri.

Missouri S&T engineering professor Casey Canfield shares new research into what it will take to expand high-speed broadband access to rural areas.

The federal government is offering grant money to help address the problem, but small towns fear they lack the tech knowhow and resources to defend their systems and are daunted by grant applications.

Small towns far from big cities rely upon federal grants to help them, but numerous definitions of what the government considers rural make that complicated.

Almost all Illinois residents have access to basic internet speeds, but it’s expensive and too slow. Will federal money help?

Missouri’s senior senator traveled to six small towns to talk about economic development and health care issues facing rural areas.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is allocating $167 million in grants and loans to broadband providers in Missouri, Oklahoma and 10 other states in the latest round of the ReConnect program.