Connecting for the Future: The process of rolling out rural broadband has begun
“The COVID-19 pandemic made it clear that broadband internet connectivity is a near-essential utility. All those months in lockdown highlighted the perils of these underserved communities when it comes to internet access.
Two major pieces of legislation in 2021—the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA)—targeted tens of billions of dollars toward efforts to bring broadband connections to rural and low-income communities. The results could prove so transformative that the bills have been compared to those supporting rural electrification in the 1930s. Perhaps future historians might call this new drive rural “internet-ification.”
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