In late 2020, Congress established an Emergency Broadband Connectivity Fund of $3.2 billion to help Americans afford Internet service during the COVID-19 pandemic, directing the…
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OPLIN 4Cast #691: Unprecedented spike in residential internet demand
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Over the course of two weeks, Ohio library internet traffic dropped from daily peaks over 8 Gigabits per second down to brief spikes that barely…
When it comes to digital equity, “Net Neutrality” gets most of the headlines, with some secondary attention paid to the Lifeline program — telephone and internet…
OPLIN 4cast Podcast #19: REAL ID
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On May 1st and 2nd, 424 library advocates from 47 states went to Washington, D.C. for the American Library Association’s National Library Legislative Day. They…