Low-Income Hawaii Residents to Get Discounted Broadband
Residents will be eligible to receive federal subsidies for Internet and devices beginning May 12 under a program aimed at helping households struggling to stay connected during the COVID-19 pandemic.
May 06, 2021 • (TNS) Low-income Hawaii residents will be eligible to receive federal subsidies for internet service and the purchase of new laptops, desktops and tablets beginning May 12 under a federal program aimed at helping households struggling to stay connected during the COVID-19 pandemic.
State officials are encouraging residents to apply as quickly as possible once applications become available as the federal pot of money is limited to $3.2 billion and Hawaii will be competing with other states to tap into the discounts.
Updated 5/3/21, 1:46 p.m.
Nearly 2,000 bills were proposed this past legislative session. But only a few hundred were passed by both the House and Senate last week. Among those that were approved, are measures that could improve the state s broadband infrastructure.
The 2021 legislative session adjourned last week, ending a four-month period when state lawmakres considered thousands of proposals to address new and ongoing challenges in the islands. Some of the larger topics legislators had to contend with were the state budget in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, education, and economic recovery efforts.
But there were a couple of items that were approved, that could have a great impact on everyday life in the islands.
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HONOLULU – The Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT), along with Amazon Web Services (AWS), the Pacific Center for Advanced Technology Training (PCATT), and the Hawai‘i Executive Collaborative’s Technology Readiness User Evaluation (TRUE) announced a new Cloud Computing Certification initiative for Hawai‘i’s residents.
Through the support of Amazon Web Service (AWS), the program provides Hawai‘i residents with the opportunity to train and receive certifications in AWS Cloud Foundations and AWS Solutions Architect Associate which can lead to remote work opportunities in cloud computing and tech jobs.
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We have all experienced the distorted garble of a video call gone wrong in the past year, or perhaps endless buffering on a popular streaming app.
Applications like video calls and streaming require a lot of bandwidth and high usage stretches existing capacity.
Expanding that capacity in an isolated place like Hawaii is not easy. Internet reaches the Hawaiian Islands and other far flung corners of the world predominantly through undersea cables.
Those fiber optic pipelines crisscross the globe, connecting major continental cities and remote island outposts.
For a while that system has worked to Hawaii’s advantage. Sitting almost dead center in the Pacific, the Hawaiian Islands were an ideal location for trans-oceanic cables to make landfall and connect.