Broadband

Several internet providers are continuing or launching affordable internet projects to help with digital equity, including Cox Communications which serves many cities and communities in west and northwest Arkansas.

On today's show, we look into some new data about teen moms in Arkansas. Also, a local relief fund is designed to help with the immediate needs of people affected by last week’s tornadoes in Benton County, while other funds take longer to get processed. Plus, trying to ease the pain of the loss of federal help to pay for internet bills for low-income households.

Today on the Outline: The Arkansas State Broadband Office is accepting public comment on Volume One of the state’s Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Initial Proposal. Also, floating harsher penalties for assaulting public transit drivers. Plus, a movie shot at XNA opens tomorrow in theaters.

Friday's news wrap features reporting on the final day of testimony in the trial challenging Arkansas' ban on gender-confirming care for transgender youth. The third case of avian influenza is confirmed in a backyard hobby flock. State officials and EducationSuperHighway are developing programs to address broadband affordability.

On today's Northwest Arkansas Business Journal we hear from Glen Howie, Arkansas' State Broadband Director, who is marking where the state is and how it can improve internet connectivity.

How hard will it be to get broadband everywhere in Arkansas? Lou McAllister, CEO of Broadband Development Group, has been tasked with helping to create a master plan for expanding broadband internet across the state, and he spoke with Roby Brock on today's Northwest Arkansas Business Journal Report.

How hard will it be to get broadband everywhere in Arkansas? Lou McAllister, CEO of Broadband Development Group, has been tasked with helping to create a master plan for expanding broadband internet across the state, and he spoke with Roby Brock on today's Northwest Arkansas Business Journal Report.

In today's Northwest Arkansas Business Journal we hear from Lou McAllister, CEO of Broadband Development Group, who has been tasked with helping to create…

The mission of the new council, appointed by Gov. Asa Hutchinson in early summer, is to identify cybersecurity risks in Arkansas and to manage such…

The United States Department of Agriculture is providing $167 million in federal grants and loans for rural internet service providers. Earlier this month…