Search Results

Keyword search: broadband

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

MONTAGUE — As part of a national effort to assess the accuracy of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) map of broadband access, local residents are being encouraged to provide insight through a survey between June 20 and July 20. According...

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

COLRAIN — The Selectboard has approved reducing the broadband budget by $26,756 for fiscal year 2026, a change that, if approved by Annual Town Meeting voters, will lower the monthly cost for broadband users by $5.

By EMILEE KLEIN

A $12.6 million grant will build out broadband infrastructure for nearly 100 underserved communities across the state, including customers in the Pioneer Valley.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — GCET General Manager John Lunt mapped out plans for two separate projects this week after the internet service provider received more than $1.2 million in federal grant funding administered through the Massachusetts Broadband Institute...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — The Ways and Means Committee voted unanimously to recommend that Mayor Ginny Desorgher restore internet provider GCET’s budget “as close as possible” to its original $1,035,000 in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds.The vote followed a...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — The internet service provider GCET was awarded more than $1.2 million in federal grant funding administered through the Massachusetts Broadband Institute (MBI) to install broadband in “underserved” parts of the city and to make The Weldon...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

SPRINGFIELD — Local activists, organizations and representatives from western Massachusetts’s congressional delegation are urging the U.S. federal government to extend a pandemic-era program that covers internet costs for 55,000 low-income residents...