Charlotte Keith of Spotlight PA
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A Fight over Public Records Could Threaten Novel Approach to Broadband in Rural Pennsylvania
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Officials in the Southern Alleghenies created a nonprofit to avoid a state law that makes it hard for local governments to build their own broadband networks. Now it faces an existential test.
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Pennsylvania’s Definition of Broadband Hasn’t Changed in Nearly 20 Years
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Pa. lawmakers passed up a chance to increase the speeds that qualify as broadband despite warnings that they would soon become obsolete.
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An Obscure State Law Could Blunt the Impact of Up to $1 Billion in Federal Funding for Pennsylvania’s Broadband Expansion
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Federal officials want the money to benefit publicly-owned networks, but Pa. law gives phone companies a “virtual veto.”