There are 8 article(s) tagged broadband:

• September 2023

  • Memphis unveils $750 million fiber plan with goal of covering low-income areas

    City would chip in $7 million to help low-income residents afford fiber — plus $15 million over 40 years to own part of the fiber’s capacity.

    By Samuel Hardiman, Bill Dries September 26, 2023

• January 2023

  • Hernando meeting to detail increased broadband access, discounts

    A meeting on Friday in Hernando will outline the extension of broadband services to the underserved areas of DeSoto County. Officials will explain the anticipated timeline for the extension to homes and what residents can expect.

    By Toni Lepeska January 19, 2023

• July 2022

  • DeSoto spending $10M to extend high-speed Internet

    The latest survey of residences revealed 3,758 households don’t have access to broadband or are underserved, meaning download speeds of less than 100 Mbps. 

    By Toni Lepeska July 31, 2022

• November 2021

  • Comcast awards $65,000 in grants to four nonprofits for Internet access

    Comcast’s grants are designed to help close the access gap for low-income households. 

    By Bill Dries November 30, 2021

  • County Commission rearranges $2.25 million of ARPA funding

    Left unresolved is $7.9 million in ARPA spending for FedExForum that commissioners delayed action on. 

    By Bill Dries November 15, 2021

• September 2021

  • Memphis’ $161M ARPA budget gets a City Council rewrite

    Council members put ARPA spending plans on hold to talk about a compromise that could increase the council’s share of ARPA funding from $13 million to around $20 million. 

    By Bill Dries September 07, 2021

• June 2021

  • City applies pandemic lessons in developing citywide broadband strategy

    Mairi Albertson, the city’s director of Housing and Community Development talks on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast about the citywide plan, and says the lessons of the pandemic indicate broadband has to be able to handle several people online at the same time.

    By Bill Dries June 13, 2021

  • City budget vision still blurry as first federal funds arrive

    The council approved Tuesday, June 1, accepting $80.5 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act funding -- the first of two payments to come from Washington for pandemic relief. But there are still questions and uncertainties about how the money can be used.

    By Bill Dries June 02, 2021