Will broadband businesses get to determine the areas they’ll reach with federal dollars? Or will the state prevent cherry picking and dictate where they go?
A new $629 million pool of federal dollars is intended to bridge the “digital divide” and connect rural Americans in areas without access to high speed internet. But these regions are expensive to service, and internet providers, always looking out for their bottom dollar, are looking to hook up in areas convenient to their existing network.
Biden's "Internet for All" program pledges $65 billion to increase access to fast internet, but it is facing astronomical costs for individual homes.
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