"The primary focus is going to be unserved," the lawmaker said.
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Nwachukwu sees opportunity in the vast market unserved by existing airlines.
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Or if there were the promise of some amazing dessert, still unserved.
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Many small-dollar borrowers are unserved by the traditional U.S. financial system.
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We commit to invest additional ₹10,000 crore to serve financially unserved / underserved.
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Yet many areas and customers are unserved or underserved by natural gas infrastructure.
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That means Project Loon can bring the internet to unserved areas using far fewer balloons.
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"We think this is an area where traditional healthcare has left people unserved," Gangeskar explained.
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This mix creates unserved "transit deserts" with high need for public transportation but little availability.
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In the preliminary data, that area had dozens of unserved census blocks eligible for funding.
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For Americans who live in unserved areas, the prospect of municipal broadband can seem appealing.
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By the time the final data was released, only three small blocks were still considered unserved.
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But most of the approximately 500 square miles of the city remain unserved by the lines.
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There are at least a dozen unserved or under-served markets ... [where] I need more vessels.
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The latest map shows a significant coverage area, though there are still pockets of unserved communities.
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The agency also proposed directing $20 billion over 10 years to fund network expansion in unserved places.
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Serving the unserved is the priority, not using government money to subsidize municipal overbuilding of private investment.
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In urban planning parlance, southeast Brooklyn is a rapid-transit desert, unserved by a single subway line.
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Lawmakers were quick to praise marketplace lending's potential to offer credit to underserved or unserved businesses and communities.
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By sitting there, unserved for hours, enduring jeers and threats, they planned to change how restaurants treated black people.
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Medicaid expansions have brought health care to minority groups that previously went unserved.
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Three quarters of the funding will be used for a national reverse auction for unserved areas of the country.
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We also found one in four unserved locations were misplaced on maps by more than a football field's length.
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They include the creation of bank accounts for the country's unserved and underserved population and the adoption of biometric identities.
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Rural towns and rural wireless companies want to use the airwaves to build their own networks to reach unserved areas.
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The FCC's Universal Service Fund's provides financial support aimed at lowering the cost of purchasing telecommunication services in unserved areas.
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Instead, Congress, the Federal Communications Commission, and local governments can do more to facilitate private broadband deployment to unserved areas.
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"In this Order we must decide either that competition must suffer or unserved Americans should go without broadband," summarized Commissioner Clyburn.
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At the door, I turned around and saw that she was wrapping up all the unserved, uneaten food behind the counter.
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Eventually, Kuiper will be a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites providing broadband to underserved and unserved areas of the globe.
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OneWeb's satellites will reach every community in the world and enable equal access to the internet for the world's unserved and underserved.
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Meanwhile, all indications are that the insurance markets are stabilizing, with insurer profitability up and only around 0.1 percent of enrollees unserved.
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Using data from the Federal Communications Commission to identify both unserved and underserved areas, the program divides the state into census blocks.
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Broadband providers will have stronger incentives to build networks, especially in unserved areas, and to upgrade networks to gigabit speeds and 5G.
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Their answer to the paradox: Nurture local companies making basic products that innovatively satisfy an unserved need, and employ a lot of people.
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Internet providers will compete for FCC support in a "reverse auction" to expand broadband and voice service to unserved areas in 20 states.
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Microsoft launched its Airband initiative, which uses a mix of technologies including vacant broadcast airwaves, to cobble together connectivity for unserved rural areas.
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As an example, Harvey points out that until recently, frequent requests from Met Store customers for precious metal jewelry had largely gone unserved.
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Facebook gave an update yesterday on its efforts to expand Express Wi-Fi, an app that lets unserved communities pay for internet service.
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Like TV, it provides signal to homes from geostationary satellites, which means it can reach many of the unserved corners of the country.
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Bakker's latter-day grind, absent all the excess of the PTL era, is proving to be the unserved remainder of his prison sentence.
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The legislation also restricts loans to areas with two or fewer existing broadband providers, where 90 percent of households are defined as unserved.
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The FCC's Rural Digital Opportunity Fund aims to provide $20 billion in essential funding over 10 years to push deeper into unserved areas.
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This could quintuple SpaceX's valuation, as the network would be able to provide bandwidth to under-served, and even unserved, parts of the globe.
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The current maps used to allocate resources are woefully inaccurate and result in overbuilding in some areas while other areas remain unserved or underserved.
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"We estimate a $400 billion incremental revenue opportunity from providing internet access to under- or unserved parts of the world," Morgan Stanley's team said.
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House Democrats released their own infrastructure bill last year that would inject $28503 billion into programs for expanding access for unserved and underserved communities.
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He added that there are plenty of people in the region that are currently "either unserved or underserved" by the current financial services system.
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In the last two years, the pace of investment in broadband infrastructure has declined and the rollout of access to unserved areas has slowed.
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Government-owned broadband networks are not the only way to reach presently unserved Americans, and for most areas they are not the best option.
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The FCC has proposed a rule to streamline satellite broadband deployment, which could be a cost-effective solution to delivering broadband to unserved areas.
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But completely blocking the options of municipal networks limits the options for rural communities to get connected, and will certainly leave some areas unserved.
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Even taking a conservative approach to estimates, the group claims the actual number of unserved American households is closer to 42 million—double FCC estimates.
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Some towns have taken matters into their own hands, experimenting with novel solutions to connect unserved residents or give them new options to existing services.
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This could mean energy-saving "smart grids", broadband access in underserved or unserved areas, mass transportation, as well as support for research and higher education.
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Sure, Fitbit is leaning into smartwatches with today's launch of the Versa, but the company's current line of fitness trackers left a key demographic unserved.
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The technology would have functioned something like a walkie talkie for text messages, giving people the ability to communicate in areas unserved by wireless carriers.
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"The current maps used to allocate resources are woefully inaccurate and result in overbuilding in some areas while other areas remain unserved or underserved," Rep.
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Able to remain in the stratosphere autonomously for three months at a time, the Aquila was part of Facebook's vision for bringing internet to unserved areas.
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In addition to these benefits, the AIRWAVES Act will help close the urban-rural digital divide by investing in broadband infrastructure in unserved and underserved areas.
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The investment will be made in the form of subsidies available to eligible companies through a competitive auction to build out fiber lines in unserved areas.
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Buttigieg's main promise is to "expand access to all currently unserved and underserved communities," including a "public option" where private companies have failed to provide coverage.
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The Rural Digital Opportunity Fund has $20.4 billion slated to be distributed to areas unserved by ISPs starting later this year, based on the FCC's data.
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The lack of infrastructure buildout to unserved communities will become even more apparent as the U.S. races to become a leader in 2202G and broadband deployment.
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which package mortgages and incentivize banks to provide home loans in underserved or unserved communities, are vital players in the conversation.
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I graduated from my small New York City private school with an appalling attendance record, eight unserved detentions, and an award for my outstanding achievement in astronomy.
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"Just like the electric companies eighty years ago, today's biggest internet service providers (ISPs) have left large parts of the country unserved or dramatically underserved," she wrote.
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"Just like the electric companies eighty years ago, today's biggest internet service providers (ISPs) have left large parts of the country unserved or dramatically underserved," Warren wrote.
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They found that 600 households in the Linefork area are totally unserved by any internet provider—or the speeds are too slow to even qualify as service.
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The satellites will "provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world," an Amazon spokesperson said in an emailed statement to GeekWire.
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If there are no unserved areas in a state, those funds can be used to connect schools and libraries or deploy a Next Generation 9-1-1 network.
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Grella says the agreements help stimulate economic activity in "unserved or underserved markets," and that any increase in spending from those visiting the United States benefits the industry.
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They are starting, almost by definition, with a challenging base of supporters to turn out — people who feel disconnected from the political system and unserved by major political actors.
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While the New York Fed found that mortgages from fintechs were quicker and sturdier than those offered by banks, it didn't find evidence of fintechs reaching previously unserved clients.
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Also today, it has launched its product to 20,000 tobacconists across Italy via Intesa SanPaolo Group's bank Banca 5, reaching a so-far-unserved demographic of immigrants and young people.
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"These data are a positive stride forward in an unserved disease area, and we look forward to evaluating next steps with health authorities," said Novartis Chief Medical Officer Vasant Narasimhan.
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Their get-out-of-jail-free card came with one caveat: if they were caught breaking the law again, their unserved sentence would be automatically added to the new one.
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They've worked with these businesses to extend their service as well, tasking county summer workers with digging trenches so the companies can expand another mile to reach an unserved area.
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"If things go out on a buffet, or are served family-style, there's no way to salvage that," said Ms. Schemper, who donates untouched, unserved fare to local food pantries.
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It would effectively reduce the number of those Americans who are considered "unserved," covering up the problem and reducing the incentive for internet service providers to try to reach them.
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SmartPath – Financial advisor for main street families While the wealthy top 15 percent have traditional and robo advisors to help them with finances, 100 million main street US families go unserved.
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Why it matters: Falls Church, Va.-based UbiquitiLink is testing the first "cell towers in space" to provide satellite-powered internet service — directly to consumers' cellphones — in rural and unserved areas.
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And web companies stand to benefit if efforts to expand broadband to unserved areas are successful — more people hooked up to high-speed broadband means potential new users for their services.
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Instead of reducing costs by deploying new infrastructure and increasing accessibility to underserved and unserved communities, this restrictive regime would only serve to increase the price of internet access to customers.
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A Tennessee law that was lobbied for by the telecom industry makes it illegal for EPB to expand out into surrounding areas, which are unserved or underserved by current broadband providers.
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An commission official said the rationale behind the order was to encourage Charter to build in unserved areas of the country, not places where customers can already access high-speed broadband.
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As Twitter has shrunk to a fraction of the value of its once-peers, there is an opportunity to fill an unserved niche — a platform healthy for users and the commonwealth.
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RDOF creates a pot of more than $20 billion for cooperatives, satellite operators, and other telecoms to compete for in order to support broadband projects in unserved areas across the country.
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For far too long, Rural Utilities Service (RUS) loans have funded telephone and broadband service with few assurances that the money is being deployed in legitimately unserved areas across the country.
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We've repeatedly heard from both Republican and Democratic witnesses in our committee that government will have to make real investments in broadband to build out to unserved parts of the country.
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"If you look at our top ten of unserved markets, the United States is the highest," Paul van den Brink, project manager at private-public partnership Cape Town Air Access (CTAA) said.
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By requiring Charter to build out to entirely unserved areas, Clyburn says, the expansion could provide high-speed internet to "almost three percent" of households that currently don't have a broadband option.
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Why it matters: In addition to improving major metropolitan airports, the program will work to connect 56 unserved airports and 31 helipads, allowing low-income Indians to fly for the first time.
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In the meantime, state governments are moving forward with a range of policies to increase broadband access to unserved and underserved populations, including incentives to increase private sector expansion and rural cooperatives.
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RUS funding in the past has been used to build out in areas that already have private sector broadband service, or to upgrade existing services, while other areas or regions remain unserved.
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When you look at the large unserved population in China, how do you bring all these services into rural areas where perhaps, the doctors do not have the capabilities to provide cancer care?
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Another is that a court finds Mr Bunton in contempt (some judges have threatened as much); the unserved defendants get lawyers, albeit in name only; and Mr Bunton winds up in jail himself.
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From local economic development boards to the halls of Congress, the discussion about our energy future must include ways to extend the benefits of natural gas to unserved and underserved homes and businesses.
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"The Kuiper System will deliver satellite broadband communications services to tens of millions of unserved and underserved consumers and businesses in the United States and around the globe," wrote Amazon in its application.
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They began by surveying the entire region to pinpoint the areas with the least amount of access and quickly identified a stretch in the southwest corner of the county that was completely unserved.
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These programs were riddled with waste and mismanagement, often resulted in overbuilding infrastructure where it already existed, and did little to expand broadband into rural communities and other unserved areas of the country.
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Applicants must post the area they plan to serve with USDA so that other broadband providers that may be in the area can either confirm or deny that the proposed area is unserved.
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David Thacker, assistant manager for family-owned TVS Cable, says his company provides broadband service of at least 50 Mbps, but that the unserved parts of Letcher County are outside its service area.
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The board hopes it will cover bringing service to the unserved communities, and from there, the reach can be expanded to the "underserved" citizens—all those struggling with slow, unreliable, or overpriced service.
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"Our sites range from YMCA's, police stations, and schools, but block leaders like Nilsa, who set up a table in their community, help us reach a group who may otherwise go unserved," Mullen said.
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"It is unfortunate that because we did not push New Charter to go further, in this order we must decide either that competition must suffer or unserved Americans should go without broadband," Clyburn writes.
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This will require transparent, inclusive and representative government that delivers jobs and hope, and gives millions of young men and women who feel excluded and unserved a stake in the future of their countries.
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The program, approved earlier this year, creates a fund of more than $20 billion for cooperatives, satellite operators and other telecom companies to compete for in order to connect unserved areas across the country.
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As part of the South Bend, Indiana, mayor's $80 billion "Internet For All" initiative, he promises to expand internet access to unserved and underserved communities across the country within his first term in office.
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Called Athena, the new device is designed to "efficiently provide broadband access to unserved and underserved areas throughout the world," according to an application the company reportedly filed with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
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In most markets, encouraging more private investment, whether by lowering regulatory barriers or by providing carefully targeted government support to private firms, offers the most sustainable solution to the problem of markets unserved by broadband.
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"This is a technology that enables the masses — the unserved market — that want to participate in the benefits of IoT, but really haven't been able to play because of the limits of technology," Proithis said.
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By offering opportunities for users to connect with travelers like them beyond the transactional host-guest relationship, they're creating communities of users who are sensitive to the needs of those unserved by established players like Airbnb.
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The fund, known as the Global Reversion Fund, or by its Portuguese-language initials RGR, manages money used to pay for Brazil's rural electrification program and to extend the electricity distribution system to other unserved areas.
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The FCC's RDOF promises up to $20 billion over ten years to finance high speed broadband networks in unserved rural areas, which has the potential to connect millions more American homes and businesses to quality broadband.
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The Gulf airlines connect "underserved and unserved parts of the globe and deliver travelers to the U.S. who want to spend money and conduct business," said Jonathan Grella, an executive vice president at the travel organization.
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In a draft proposal issued on Friday, the central bank said the new framework would allow for internet-based banking products and services that could address gaps in the market for potential underserved and unserved customers.
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Congress is considering the Broadband Conduit Deployment Act of 2017 to implement a "dig once" policy to encourage installing broadband conduits during the construction of highway projects, which would reduce costs for broadband providers in unserved areas.
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"Project Kuiper is a new initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world," Amazon confirmed in a statement.
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And when the story is on an investigation, especially involving a small town or other understaffed or under-resourced areas, it's usually because something has gone horribly wrong, and the public believes justice was corrupted or unserved.
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But whatever happens on the legislative front, there are big problems developing in the insurance markets as we speak: companies pulling out, leaving some parts of the country unserved, or asking for large increases in premiums. Why?
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The state's creation — "Red Compartida" — was intended, policymakers said, to bring coverage to unserved areas and competition to the dominant mobile operator in Mexico, TelCel, which is owned by Carlos Slim, one of the world's wealthiest people.
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The new device is designed to "efficiently provide broadband access to unserved and underserved areas throughout the world," according to an application the social network appears to have filed with the FCC under the name PointView Tech LLC.
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He was talking about the diminished state of local news, with so-called "news deserts" all across the country, where communities are underserved or completely unserved by basic reporting about cops, courts and other staples of civic life.
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There will also be $5 billion dedicated to grants for tribal nations, specifically to bring broadband internet to Native American lands and build out thousands of miles of internet infrastructure on these lands that are, to date, unserved.
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Since BroadbandNow's study uses a sample and is based partly on the reliability of ISPs' own reporting tools, the resulting figure is only an estimate, but the research does seem to find more unserved Americans than the FCC.
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And while Mlakar admits that it's proven a valuable resource for the community (it was where he first learned of the concept), the co-founder believes there were still issues unserved by YouTube's catch-all approach to online video.
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Along with the FCC's efforts to move the goal post closer by restructuring the Connect America Fund to distribute more funding to unserved areas of the country, private sector companies are seeking solutions to help bridge the digital divide.
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Our investigation shows that Charter failed to meet its obligations to expand the reach of its network to unserved and underserved customers at the required pace and that it failed to justify why it wasn't able to meet its obligations.
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In rural areas: He held an auction to allocate subsidies ($2 billion over 10 years) to a wide range of companies who will operate in unserved areas, and is expected to offer small ISPs a second chance to accept subsidies.
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However, only a quarter to a third of non-small cell lung cancer patients have tumors with at least 50 percent of cells producing PD-L1, leaving the majority unserved and around 70 percent of the market still up for grabs.
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"Project Kuiper is a new initiative to launch a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world," an Amazon spokesperson told CNBC in an emailed statement.
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Under Malaysia's draft proposals, digital banks have to offer products and services to address market gaps in "under-served and unserved segments" and maintain 100 million ringgit ($24.5 million) in capital initially and ramp that up to 300 million ringgit.
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"Inaccurate data jeopardize the ability of the Commission to focus our limited universal service funds on the unserved areas that need the most support," the FCC said, noting it would try harder to ensure subsidies are based on real world data.
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While there is no one-size-fits-all solution to expanding broadband access, any effort would benefit from new research — whether that's data and analysis that help identify unserved areas, an evaluation of state activities, or information on financing and funding mechanisms.
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Earlier this year, the FCC voted to approve its new Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, which creates a pot of more than $20 billion for cooperatives, satellite operators, and other telecoms to compete for in order to connect unserved areas across the country.
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The Senate farm bill places new restrictions on the Department of Agriculture's (USDA) RUS Broadband Loan Program, which would help focus the program on the unserved who need broadband the most, while simplifying the application process for companies seeking loans and grants.
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"All the served, underserved and unserved areas don't end up in a nice row," said Jim Becker, the president of the company, which has existed for more than a century and is still overseen by his 94-year-old grandmother, Marge Becker.
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"Recently, the Commission has found that its efforts to remove barriers to broadband investment and promote competition in the telecommunications marketplace are enabling service providers to extend the reach of broadband networks to previously unserved areas in all corners of the nation," the FCC declared.
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Details: Project Kuiper's first public filings indicate the company plans to put 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit in order to "provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world," according to an Amazon statement emailed to GeekWire.
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In Tennessee, Governor Bill Haslam (R) and his administration worked with the legislature last year to pass the Tennessee Broadband Accessibility Act, which includes $45 million in grants and tax credits over three years to encourage private companies to expand to unserved homes and businesses.
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One study found that encasing the internet in the regulatory quicksand of Title II would drive down private sector investment by roughly $35 billion a year, a massive shortfall that will slow down efforts to connect unserved communities and provide faster service to all.
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Here's the main point of contention between the commission and Charter: back when the company gobbled up TWC, it was told that it would have to expand its network to reach 145,000 homes and businesses in New York that were otherwise unserved or underserved by ISPs.
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He said that while they were at the consultancy, they developed a proprietary stack of tools to help with highly sophisticated Apple device deployments at large organizations, and it occurred to them that there was an unserved market opportunity to turn that knowledge into a new product.
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An Amazon spokesperson pointed CNBC Make It to its Project Kuiper, a "long term initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world," according to the project's website.
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"This legislation offers innovative ways to avoid a spectrum crunch, pave the way for 5G service, and provide critical resources to rural America to continue rural buildout in unserved and underserved areas throughout Colorado and the country," Gardner said in a statement with the bill's release.
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According to documents obtained by Wired through Freedom of Information Act requests, the social network is working on an internet satellite that would "efficiently provide broadband access to unserved and underserved areas throughout the world," according to an application filed with the FCC under the name PointView Tech LLC.
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Facebook is working on mesh Wi-Fi to possibly bring to developing countries Shannon Liao updates us on one of Facebook's internet connectivity efforts, this one in Tanzania: Facebook gave an update yesterday on its efforts to expand Express Wi-Fi, an app that lets unserved communities pay for internet service.
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Wyoming modified its definition of "unserved" populations, raising the definition for high-speed reliable internet from 10 Megabits per second (Mbps) download and 1 Mbps upload to the FCC's standard of 85033 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload — which allows more communities to qualify for state funding than under the prior definition.
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This week the House joined the Senate in considering legislation to embrace modern mapping tools before committing precious and finite public dollars to ensure every unserved home and business is seen – and ultimately served – by the companies with the expertise, the technology, the financial wherewithal and the track record to get the job done.
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SpaceX pointed out to CNBC Make It that it was after years of work that in March 2018 it was granted permission by regulators to operate a satellite system to "bring high-speed, reliable, and affordable broadband service to consumers in the United States and around the world, including areas underserved or currently unserved by existing networks," according to Federal Communications Commission documents.
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The latest expansion to the previously unserved borough as well as new neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan involves more than tripling the number bikes currently in the system to 40,000 by 2023, When Lyft purchased Motivate, which operates Citi Bike as well as similar programs in Chicago, San Francisco, Washington, DC, and other major cities, the company pledged a $100 million investment in the system's continued growth.
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He calls for a national "Vision Zero" policy to work toward eliminating traffic fatalities and serious injuries, as well as doubling funding for the Transportation Alternatives Program to install more accessible sidewalks, crosswalks, and bike lanes Buttigieg's plan calls for investing $80 billion in expanding broadband to "unserved and underserved communities," and boosting the FCC's Lifeline program, which helps provide affordable phone and internet service to low-income consumers.
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Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) joined the chorus, adding a little dig of his own: While I'm glad that the Trump Administration recognizes that maintaining American leadership in the information age requires a significant investment commitment, I'm concerned that constructing a nationalized 5G network would be both expensive and duplicative, particularly at a time when the Administration is proposing to slash critical federal investments in R&D and broadband support for unserved areas.
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Recently, President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE and his administration, members of Congress, and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have expressed their commitment to supporting the expansion of broadband to unserved and underserved rural areas.
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