By: Johanna Alonso Daily Record business reporter February 25, 2021
High school senior Kimberly Vasquez sits in front of her laptop in her Baltimore home. In November, the 17-year-old senior struggled to access her online classroom because the family’s low-cost broadband plan, Comcast Internet Essentials, does not provide the bandwidth for her and her two sisters to stream teleconferencing applications at the same time. (Courtesy of Kimberly Vasquez)
Maryland’s goal of developing a broadband network for students in rural areas by August 2021 has been pushed back several months.
The delay was caused by “necessary agreements between all the groups involved” taking longer than expected, said Kendrick Gordon, the director of the Governor’s Office of Rural Broadband.