Tech Summit Debates Best Solutions to Expand Broadband
The Minority Media and Telecom Council brought together government officials, technology leaders and experts to discuss the future of the Internet among people of color at the “Broadband and Social Justice Summit” at Howard University late last week. As the deadline for the Federal Communications Commission to issue the national broadband plan approaches in early [...]
Read MoreAfrican American Broadband Usage Below Average, Use of Mobile Web on the Rise
The Pew Internet & American Life Project recently released a report on broadband usage that posits while usage is up (63% of USA homes), African Americans are still below average in their use. The report, Home Broadband Adoption 2009, states that An April 2009 survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project [...]
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