Member Spotlight: City of Fairlawn

Member Spotlight: City of Fairlawn After 27 years, Fairlawn Mayor and Broadband Access Ohio chairman, Bill Roth, retired as the Mayor of Fairlawn. He passed the reins to Mayor Russell Sharnsky, who has been on City Council for over two decades. The BAO team recently...

New FCC Maps to Bring Updated Information

November 28, 2022 On Friday, November 18th, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released its new and improved National Broadband Map. The maps produced by the FCC will be the guide for how over $42 billion in federal money (from the Broadband Equity, Access,...

Member Spotlight: New Albany

Broadband access has been an issue for decades and this month we spoke with a community that has been working on finding solutions for that same amount of time. New Albany, Ohio is not only looking at what has worked for their community in the past but anticipating...

Ohio Libraries Enlist Tech Trainers to Fight Digital Divide

Ohio Libraries Enlist Tech Trainers to Fight Digital Divide Champaign County, Ohio, libraries are providing a technology trainer at the branches there, and workers in the county are also pointing to a local need for better Internet access and digital literacy. October...