Published: August 25, 2011
Tags: bandwidth, broadband, Enventis, MP Nexlevel
By Chris Newmarker Dolan Media Can more bandwidth bring tech economy riches to cities such as Detroit Lakes, Pine City and Sandstone? That’s the hope as Hickory Tech’s Enventis subsidiary completes a 428-mile expansion of its Minnesota and western Wisconsin broadband network. The project, which started in late July, is scheduled for completion in 2013, with [...]
Published: June 23, 2010
Tags: broadband, Doyle, fiber-optic, stimulus
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin schools and libraries will get increased broadband access paid for with federal stimulus money under a plan that has been approved by a legislative committee. The Legislature’s budget committee on Wednesday unanimously approved spending nearly $23 million in stimulus money to add fiber optic connections in 82 schools and 385 [...]
Published: June 15, 2010
Tags: broadband, Doyle, stimulus
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Jim Doyle says federal stimulus money will help Wisconsin expand broadband telecommunications services to hundreds of schools and libraries. Doyle on Monday asked the Legislature’s budget committee to approve plans for adding fiber optic connections at schools in 70 districts by the end of 2010 and at libraries in 380 [...]
Published: May 28, 2010
Tags: broadband, Federal Communications Commission, Kenosha, M2Z Networks, stimulus, wireless
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Kenosha County has been chosen to possibly get free wireless broadband as early as December 2011. County Executives of America chose Kenosha along with 11 others in the nation to receive the first round of free broadband. The others are almost all large urban areas. The group, which is made up [...]
By JOELLE TESSLER AP Technology Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Thursday will hand out the first $182 million of a $7.2 billion pot of stimulus money that will go toward building high-speed Internet networks and encouraging more Americans to use them. In a speech in Dawsonville, Ga., Vice President Joe Biden will [...]
