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Approximately 1 million Ohioans live without internet access, The Columbus Dispatch detailed in an in-depth report last October. The majority of those without service live in rural Ohio.
Husted, who was an early proponent of House Bill 13 legislation lawmakers failed to pass last year that would have created a $20 million broadband grant program has advocated for statewide expansion extensively.
The lieutenant governor told reporters during Monday s news conference that he s traveled across the state, visiting rural communities where siblings squabble over who gets to log in to Zoom classes and parents don t have the option of working from home. They can t participate in the modern economy, the modern education system, the modern health care system without it, he said.