Digital inequality—challenges in accessing or maintaining an internet connection and functional digital devices—affected ...

The new approach to subsidized broadband emphasizes satellite terminals that are initially inexpensive, but can cost more over time.

The Universal Service Fund spent $8.4 billion in 2024 on phone and broadband subsidies for rural and low-income households.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed poised to uphold the federal program that provides schools, libraries, and underserved areas with access to affordable telephone and high-speed internet services.

In a 3 hour long session, the Justices grilled a conservative group's lawyer about the consequences of declaring the practice ...

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in a major challenge to the federal “E-rate program,” which subsidizes telephone and high-speed internet services in schools, libraries, rural ...

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a major legal fight over the $8 billion a year the federal government spends to ...

The Supreme Court leaned toward upholding a $9 billion subsidy program that funds phone and internet services in rural areas ...

A taxpayer-funded subsidy scheme for electric vehicle chargers ... and had not just been copied from the internet. A review of work by government fraud experts said that “key fraud risks were ...

The digital payments industry is staring at a loss of around Rs 500-600 crore as the government has withdrawn the subsidy support on RuPay debit cards, according to two people in the know. In a ...

The Ministry of Agriculture has proposed a budget of Tk25,000 crore for agricultural subsidies in the upcoming fiscal 2025-26 – Tk8,000 crore more than it got this fiscal year. The proposal was made ...