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Comcast: Rural Broadband Must Make Business Sense

Pat Ulrich lives in a rural Pulaski County subdivision that has been waiting more than 15 years for broadband internet, but Comcast wants nearly $50,000 to run a cable to her area. read more >
Mark Cayce is the general manager of Ouachita Electric Cooperative in Camden. OEC and South Arkansas Telephone company have teamed up to help provide high-speed internet in rural south Arkansas were in many places, dial-up is the only option.
Construction / Energy / Nonprofits

Six Arkansas Electric Co-Ops Stringing Broadband

Six electric cooperatives in Arkansas are bringing high-speed broadband internet access to thousands of their members and plan to offer it to all of their members within the next four to six years. read more >
Government & Politics / Media & Marketing

Thoughts on Sinclair, After Working for John Robert Starr

No, local news folks shouldn’t be pledging their bosses’ allegiance to Trump in the media wars. But they are at financial gunpoint. read more >
Government & Politics / Legal / Media & Marketing

What the FCC Rollback of ‘Net Neutrality’ Means to You

Now that the federal government has rolled back the internet protections it put in place two years ago, the big question is: What does the repeal of "net neutrality' rules mean to you? read more >
Government & Politics

60 Percent of Arkansas Households Now Wireless OnlyLock Icon

In 2015, the government estimated that 59.8 percent of Arkansas households had no landlines and relied only on wireless phones. read more >
Elizabeth Bowles
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Aristotle Exec on Broadband Mission to Washington

Elizabeth Bowles will be on a mission April 21 when she flies to Washington, D.C., as a newly minted member of the federal Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee. She’s demanding technological equality for rural people. read more >
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Australia Couple are 1st Foreigners to Own US Radio Stations

An Australian couple has bought more than two dozen radio stations in three states, including Arkansas, marking the first time federal regulators have allowed full foreign ownership of U.S. radio stations. read more >
Larry Morton
Government & Politics / Investments / Legal

Soul of the South Investors Battle Over KMYA License

The broadcast license for KMYA-TV, Channel 49, that Soul of the South Network investors are fighting over was an important piece to a funding puzzle two years ago. read more >
Government & Politics / Investments / Legal

Investors Battle Over Valuable Soul of the South License

A schism among Soul of the South investors has erupted into a lawsuit over control of the venture’s most valuable asset: the broadcast license for KMYA-TV, Channel 49. read more >

Comcast Increases Internet Speeds

Comcast announced Monday that it is increasing the speed of its Blast! tier by 50 percent to 75 Mbps in central Arkansas at no additional charge to customers. read more >
Legal / Public Companies

AT&T Hit with $100M Fine for Slowing ‘Unlimited’ Data Plans

AT&T Mobility LLC has been hit with a $100 million fine for offering consumers "unlimited" data, but then slowing their Internet speeds after they hit a certain amount. read more >
Justin Medders, special projects and customer coordinator with Fidelity Communications, said the company plans to expand its one-gigabit service in Benton. It’s the first company in the state to offer the high-speed service, but others are expanding their high-speed footprints around the country. 
Business Services / Media & Marketing

ISPs Eye Boosting Consumer Speeds

Sam Walls, the president of Connect Arkansas, which promotes adoption of broadband Internet around the state, says higher speeds show that Internet service providers are responding to the demands of the marketplace. read more >
Government & Politics

FCC Redefines Advanced Broadband

The Federal Communications Commission in January updated its definition of advanced broadband to 25 megabits per second (Mbps) for downloads and 3 Mbps for uploads. That’s up from the previous standard of 4 Mbps for downloads and 1 Mbps for uploads, a standard set in 2010 and one the FCC called “dated and inadequate.” read more >
Tom Wheeler
Government & Politics / Media & Marketing

Net Neutrality (Editorial)

Tom Wheeler, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, made a strong case last week when he announced that he would ask his fellow commissioners to adopt what’s known as the “Title II” approach to Internet neutrality. read more >
Tom Wheeler
Government & Politics / Legal / Small Business

FCC Chairman Proposes Regulating Internet Like Phone Service

Internet service providers, including those selling wireless connections, would be prohibited from slowing down or speeding up web traffic, under rules proposed Wednesday by a top U.S. regulator that would subject the broadband industry to unprecedented regulation. read more >
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A Look at Two Sides of the ‘Net Neutrality’ Debate

Let's say President Barack Obama gets his way and high-speed Internet service providers are governed by the same U.S. regulations imposed on telephone companies 80 years ago. read more >
Government & Politics / Legal / Media & Marketing

FCC Bears Down on Stations With JSAs

The Federal Communications Commission is giving TV stations two years to sort out joint sales agreements that allow companies to own two stations in small or medium markets. read more >

Connect America Funds Disbursed to Windstream

The Federal Communications Commission recently announced it would disburse $60.7 million of the Connect America Fund to Little Rock's Windstream Holdings Inc. read more >
Education / Government & Politics / Media & Marketing

Arkansans Speak Out to FCC on E-Rate

The program, created in 1997, is intended to connect public venues, particularly schools and libraries, to the Internet. It costs about $2 billion per year. The FCC’s proposal involves putting more money into faster Internet and tossing out obsolete technology. read more >
Media & Marketing

American Cable Association Unhappy With Sinclair’s Deal for Allbritton TV Stations

The American Cable Association is one of several groups filing with the Federal Communications Commission to stop or alter terms of Sinclair Broadcast Group's purchase of Allbritton Communications' television stations, including KATV-TV, Channel 7 of Little Rock. read more >