$930 million in grants announced in Biden's effort to expand internet access to every home in the US
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The federal effort to expand internet access to every U.S. home has taken a major step forward with the announcement of $930 million in grants to shore up connections in dozens of places where significant connectivity gaps persist. Those places include remote parts of Alaska and rural Texas. The so-called middle mile grants are intended to trigger the laying of 12,000 miles of fiber through 35 states and Puerto Rico. The middle mile is the midsection of the infrastructure necessary to enable internet access, composed of high-capacity lines carrying lots of data quickly. The expansion is among several initiatives pushed through Congress by President Joe Biden's administration to expand high-speed internet connectivity.
  • sovietknuckles[they]
    19·
    1 year ago

    In the past, they dumped the money on the largest telecom companies and ask them to make internet faster, and the telecom companies pocket it/pass it off to shareholders and improve nothing.

    Looking at the Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure Program recipients list, the very largest telecom companies are not listed, so maybe this time will be different.

  • Emi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    7·
    1 year ago

    A reminder that while for profit companies could provide for systemic needs and underserved communities, they won’t if there isn’t enough of a profit margin for them.

  • Binzy_Boi
    5·
    1 year ago

    What would really help with giving people better internet access is giving people a public option for the telecoms. See SaskTel in Saskatchewan and Alberta Government Telephones before Don Getty privatized it.

  • eee@lemm.ee
    3·
    1 year ago

    Broadband speed and prices in some parts of the US are just tragic.