Yahoo

‘Broadband Prairie’ rural wireless project moves to public phase of researching, testing

A wireless tower at Iowa State University’s Ag Engineering/Agronomy Farm west of Ames is loaded with hardware sending radio waves across the countryside, creating wireless internet connections for ...
Tech Times

Satellite Internet vs 5G: Rural Broadband Comparison for Faster, Reliable Wireless Connectivity

Satellite vs 5G internet comparison explains rural broadband speed, cost, and reliability to help households choose the best ...
Agri-Pulse

FCC plans $9 billion effort to expand 5G access in rural areas

The Federal Communications Commission is moving ahead with a $9 billion effort to expand 5G mobile broadband service in rural areas. The commission last week voted to roll out the first phase of the ...

Talking Texoma: Texoma Wireless is expanding

Texoma Wireless is expanding and improving wireless internet service in rural areas of Texoma following new local ownership.
CNET

Verizon to buy Bluegrass Cellular in continued push into rural service areas

Rae Hodge was a senior editor at CNET. She led CNET's coverage of privacy and cybersecurity tools from July 2019 to January 2023. As a data-driven investigative journalist on the software and services ...
Computerworld

Verizon Wireless to buy Rural Cellular

Verizon Wireless today announced plans to buy Rural Cellular Corp. for $757 million in cash to expand Verizon’s rural market wireless coverage into Rural’s Unicel network in 15 states. The deal should ...
Business Wire

PAWR Program Unveils ARA Testbed for Rural Wireless and Applications Research

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) Project Office announces the unveiling of ARA, a new testbed in Central Iowa dedicated to research on rural wireless ...
West Central Tribune

Wireless internet company keeps the most rural residents connected in southwest Minnesota

GRANITE FALLS — While millions of dollars in federal and state grants are helping bring fiber optic cable for broadband service to ever more rural locations, a wireless internet provider serving them ...
Morning Call PA

Internet speeds were awful, so these rural Pennsylvanians put up their own wireless tower

Big Valley is a living postcard of Pennsylvania. Jet-black buggies hug the shoulders of its long, straight roads and knobby-kneed foals prance in fields so green they look electrified. Most signs ...
The Hill

Committee to explore cap on rural wireless subsidies

A controversial proposal to cap temporarily the federal funds flowing to cell phone companies serving remote areas will be in the spotlight at a Tuesday Senate Commerce Committee hearing. The proposal ...
Network World

Verizon Wireless to acquire Rural Cellular

Verizon Wireless has agreed to acquire Rural Cellular Corp., a mobile telephone service provider focused on rural areas in the United States, the companies announced Monday. Verizon will pay about ...