Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29275
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Via Nieman Watchdog. 5 pages., The Congressional stimulus packages "could mark a new, promising beginning - or they could be a new boondoggle for AT&T, Verizon and rural phone companies."
Via online sources. 2 pages., Case report about a rural region of eastern Oregon that "appears to be the largest Wi-Fi hot spot in the world, with wireless high-speed Internet available free for some 600 square miles."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12621
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3 pgs, A new mapping tool shows where households have taken advantage of a federal stimulus program that defrays some of the cost of broadband for lower-income Americans.The tool, which was created through a partnership between Rural LISC and the nonpartisan nonprofit Heartland Forward, was designed to help target families that may qualify for the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) but who aren’t participating.
11 pages., Online via Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)., Authors propose a new approach based on Cognitive Radio technology to address the challenges for ensuring connectivity in remote areas of Africa. "Cognitive Radio will be used to manage the selection/switching across different frequency UHF/VHF bands or TV White Spaces (TVWS), while avoiding interference."
