Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Xfinity ...

Vermont will receive about $93 million in federal funding to continue constructing its broadband internet network in some of the state’s most remote rural areas, officials said Tuesday. The new ...

CASTLETON, Vt.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GoNetspeed, the northeast’s largest independent fiber builder, announced today that Benson, Castleton, Hubbardton, and Sudbury now have access to 100% fiber-optic ...

Should federal funds go to fiber installations or satellite internet services such as Starlink? That question is playing out across the US as states submit plans on how to spend $42.5 billion from the ...

The federal government has started to announce the first round of grants from the Digital Equity Capacity Grant Program. Vermont will receive just over $5 million to implement its plan to bring ...

This story by Aaron Calvin was first published in News & Citizen on Dec. 11, 2025. The Lamoille FiberNet communications union district announced last week that it had reached its goal of ensuring ...

The federal government has approved funding that will allow Vermont to complete the building of needed broadband infrastructure to get internet to all areas of the state. In 2021 Congress approved the ...

Last week’s decision, from his perspective, was a positive turnaround. There are parts of Orange County where people struggle to work from home and school children can’t find a decent Internet ...

Support VTDigger’s local nonprofit news and you could win a $250 gift card to Johnson Woolen Mills. Vermont is moving closer to universal broadband internet access, officials say, as the state’s ...

To learn more, we spoke with Christine Hallquist, the executive director for Vermont’s broadband office, who also pushed back on the notion that fiber is more expensive than satellite internet. “This ...