cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/632917
June 26 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday plans to lay out how a $42 billion investment in expanding internet access will be divvied up among the nation’s 50 states, in an effort to give all Americans access to high-speed broadband by 2030.
The move will kick off the second leg of Biden’s tour highlighting how legislation passed by Congress during the first half of his term will affect average Americans, as his reelection bid gears up.
"We have an historic opportunity here to make a real difference in people’s lives and making sure that we deliver on that potential is what we’re about every day and to make sure that people feel that at their kitchen table, in their communities, in their backyards,” White House chief of staff Jeff Zients said.
Zients compared the broadband effort to President Franklin Roosevelt’s efforts in 1936 to bring electricity to rural America. The administration estimates there are some 8.5 million locations in the U.S. that lack access to broadband connections.
Ok Cool. I would point out that back in the '90s, we gave big telecom a bunch of money and deregulation in exchange for 40 megabit fiber everywhere. We didn’t get it, not for a decade or three. So I’m just saying, whatever is put on offer here should be performance-based.
Dude… just break up the telecommunications/internet utilities already. We have the legal sledgehammers. Just swing. Yes it would have negative consequences. There’d just be incredible positives too.
I think that’d be way more effective than delivering internet cable to Bob in the prairie of Wyoming.
We should just write off fast wired internet for rural areas and go straight to satellite.
No more handouts to the Telcom companies, they have already wasted decades of funds.
