Community Broadband Media Roundup - December 10

"Folks find a way to access it. Folks are resilient," she says. "But it shouldn't be this way in the U.S. We should have the same access as other folks, and if we don't, it's going to put us down a path of further have's and have not's."

Here are the most affordable places to live with high-speed Internet by Joel Hruska, Extreme Tech

Podcast: The homework digital divide by Kim Hart, Axios

Digital divide is wider than federal statistics show, Microsoft study says by Steve Lohr, The New York Times

Overall, Microsoft concluded that 162.8 million people do not use the Internet at broadband speeds, while the FCC says that broadband is not available to 24.7 million Americans. The discrepancy is particularly stark in rural areas.

Rural small grants available to deploy broadband-based solutions by Rachel Engel, Efficient Gov

What the government is doing on Internet access by Kim Hart, Axios

Electricity 2.0: Small cities rush to innovate on wifi by Kim Hart, Axios

USDA’s rural broadband plan met with criticism, concerns by Christopher Walljasper, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

Microsoft believes the broadband gap can be closed by Laurie Bedord, Successful Farming