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CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s final proposal for use of millions in federal broadband funding remains on pause as state officials review that plan and brace for changes to the program under ...
The latest administrative hang-up leaves the county to pay the project contractor while the government sorts out federal funding.
In the run-up to the vote in the U.S. Senate on President Donald Trump’s spending and tax bill, Republicans scrambled to revise the bill to win support of wavering GOP senators. A provision included in the original bill was a 10-year moratorium on any state law that sought to regulate artificial intelligence.
If states don’t follow the prohibition on enforcing new or existing laws, the federal government would rescind the federal broadband funding.
The ALA applauded today's Supreme Court 6–3 decision to uphold the Universal Service Fund, which funds the E-Rate program.
The federal government is pouring $42.5 billion into funding broadband infrastructure across the country so that all Americans can get online. But five months after we should have broken ground on the new broadband networks,
CHARLESTON — A new memorandum released last week by staff of the West Virginia Public Service Commission could settle an issue at the heart of disagreements between electric utilities and internet service providers over who is responsible for pole replacements.
The provision, which received a considerable amount of support from Big Tech firms and was championed by Texas Senator Ted Cruz, would have prevented any state that takes funding from a federal broadband fund from passing any legislation that would regulate AI within their borders.
If states don’t follow the prohibition on enforcing new or existing laws, the federal government would rescind the federal broadband funding.
Despite an order released at the end of June by the West Virginia Public Service Commission, disagreements between internet service providers and electric utilities over pole attachments could put broadband expansion projects at risk due to federal deadlines.