#High Speed Internet

The landmark legislation strengthens the state’s commitment to closing the digital divide and ensuring all Hawaiʻi residents have access to reliable internet and the digital skills needed to thrive.

As part of the Connect Kākou Initiative, the County of Maui is inviting residents of Maui, Molokaʻi and Lānaʻi to take a brief survey on their internet access and use, devices used, community resources needed and household demographics.

Echoing the need by broadband advocates for digital equity, ʻAuamo Collaborative is relaunching an effort to enhance internet access in Hawaiʻi by seeking input from residents across the state to help determine internet connectivity gaps. To do so, residents are asked to take a high-speed test by visiting here: www.testmyspeedhawaii.com.

Maui County residents, nonprofits, internet service providers and others are encouraged to help update information about locations that have unserved or underserved internet connectivity in an effort to bolster high-speed internet across the state.

Hawaiian on Thursday became the world’s first major carrier to deploy Starlink’s high-speed, low-latency broadband internet. The service debuted onboard an Airbus A321neo flight from Honolulu to Long Beach, Calif.

The University of Hawaiʻi and Ocean Networks, Inc. announced a $120 million, public-private partnership to construct a submarine optical fiber cable system that is aimed at connecting the Hawaiian Islands and improving and expanding high-speed broadband internet throughout the state.

Connect Kākou, a State of Hawaiʻi initiative to ensure that communities across Hawaiʻi have reliable and affordable access to high-speed internet officially launched today.

An additional 55,000 locations were enabled with fiber-to-the-premise service in 2022, including parts of Wailuku, Maui, Hawaiian Telcom reports.

US Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) today announced that the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands will receive $17.3 million in new federal funding from the US Department of Commerce to expand high-speed internet access in Native Hawaiian communities.

Hawai‘i will receive $5.6 million in new federal funding from the US Department of Commerce to expand high-speed internet access in unserved and underserved communities.

result of this investment, an additional 30,000 locations throughout the state now have access to FTTP broadband service.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has made it even more apparent that affordable and reliable broadband is critical to accessing education, health care, and other essential services. Yet millions of households remain unconnected either because broadband infrastructure has not been built to their homes or the price of broadband services is out of reach for them.”

Priced at $104.99 per month for new residential customers, Spectrum Internet Gig is now available to more than 70% of the company’s footprint.

Symmetrical Internet features equivalent upload and download speeds, enabling Hawai‘i residents to send multi-media communication as fast as they receive it.

Broadband is now available in parts of Huelo on Maui as part of an expansion conducted by Hawaiian Telcom in thousands of rural communities throughout Hawaiʻi.

By Wendy Osher  (Update: 3:30 p.m. 7/27/10) Video service to Oceanic Time Warner Cable customers was back up and running for most of Maui by 2:46 Tuesday afternoon.  Company officials say there are still some areas with spotty internet connectivity though, and efforts to fully restore service continues.  The service outage was experienced statewide from […]

West Maui State Representative Angus McKelvey wants to bring Google’s high speed gigabit Internet access project to Maui.  He is asking residents to help by filling out an on-line petition to have the company use the Valley Isle as a test bed for the pilot project.   Under the proposal, Google would provide up to 500,000 […]