High Speed Internet

Vermont is waiting on $229 million in federal broadband funding, but President-elect Donald Trump has been critical of the program that is funding that work.

The Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment, or BEAD, program will bring $229 million to the state — one-third of all the money Vermont needs to supply everyone with high-speed broadband service.

If Congress doesn’t act, a $14 billion federal program that subsidizes high-speed internet for low-income households will run out of money in April. More than 25,000 Vermonters will be impacted, nearly half of whom are 50 or older.

Host Mikaela Lefrak speaks to the Vermont Community Broadband Board's deputy director about how to challenge the FCC's national broadband map.

Twenty internet providers, including national companies like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon, have committed to the program.

The COVID-19 pandemic made the state's broadband inequities glaringly clear. Despite a big push by the state last year, thousands of people, especially…

For many years, I’ve been part of a small group of Craftsbury residents that’s been working to build community support for bringing high-speed internet…

Without a doubt, times have changed. Time was when access to the internet was considered a luxury - even a novelty – but those days are long gone. Today,…

Just last week I was standing in a meeting room at a prominent Burlington-area hotel and I could not get onto the Internet. I went over to a window. Still…

The Vermont House on Tuesday overwhelmingly backed a bill designed to spread broadband internet throughout rural parts of the state.The legislation aims…