White House announces $40 billion in broadband funding

[Nomad4Ever]

White House announces $40 billion in broadband funding

States will receive at least $100 million

www.theverge.com

President Joe Biden is getting closer to distributing more than $40 billion in funding to support broadband expansion nationwide as part of his administration’s goal to connect all Americans to high-speed internet by 2030.

“Just like Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered electricity to every home in America through his Rural Electrification Act, the announcement is part of President Biden’s broader effort to deliver investments, jobs, and opportunities directly to working and middle-class families across the country,” a White House official said in a statement Monday.

The Biden administration is expected to invest more than $90 billion to expand equitable and affordable internet access nationwide. As part of the American Rescue Plan, more than $25 billion has been authorized to build out broadband infrastructure and subsidize the cost of connected devices for low-income people.

Fantastic news! The US has lagged behind other developed countries in internet access and speed for sometime.

Downloading a high-definition movie takes about seven seconds in Seoul, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Zurich, Bucharest and Paris, and people pay as little as $30 a month for that connection. In Los Angeles, New York and Washington, downloading the same movie takes 1.4 minutes for people with the fastest Internet available, and they pay $300 a month for the privilege, according to The Cost of Connectivity, a report published Thursday by the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute. (Source)

It is high time we joined the rest of our peers. It is absurd that we are behind so many countries when it comes to such an important aspect of the modern world.

 

[Noodlegawd]

White House announces $40 billion in broadband funding

States will receive at least $100 million

www.theverge.com

Fantastic news! The US has lagged behind other developed countries in internet access and speed for sometime.


It is high time we joined the rest of our peers. It is absurd that we are behind so many countries when it comes to such an important aspect of the modern world.

God knows there's nothing more important than being able to pirate movies in seven seconds.

 

[Nomad4Ever]

Oh btw if anyone wondered why US internet sucks so bad its because somehow people still operate under the delusion that the absence of regulation breeds innovation instead of capitalism naturally tending towards monopolies.

“The average market has one or two serious Internet providers, and they set their prices at monopoly or duopoly pricing.”

The situation arose from this conundrum: Left alone, will companies compete, or is regulation necessary?

In many parts of Europe, the government tries to foster competition by requiring that the companies that own the pipes carrying broadband to people’s homes lease space in their pipes to rival companies.

In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission in 2002 reclassified high-speed Internet access as an information service, which is unregulated, rather than as telecommunications, which is regulated. Its hope was that Internet providers would compete with one another to provide the best networks. That didn’t happen. The result has been that they have mostly stayed out of one another’s markets.

Why the U.S. Has Fallen Behind in Internet Speed and Affordability (Published 2014)

The lack of competition in the U.S. broadband industry could have long-term economic consequences for American competitiveness.

www.nytimes.com

 

[SuperDS77]

White House announces $40 billion in broadband funding

States will receive at least $100 million

www.theverge.com

Fantastic news! The US has lagged behind other developed countries in internet access and speed for sometime.


It is high time we joined the rest of our peers. It is absurd that we are behind so many countries when it comes to such an important aspect of the modern world.

Yet MORE areas of our life being managed by a centralized authority. Certainly would appear unconstitutional or are we going to hear how this is "interstate commerce" or "general welfare"? Probably both I would predict.

 

[SuperDS77]

God knows there's nothing more important than being able to pirate movies in seven seconds.

It is the RIGHT of EVERY American! /s

 

[Nomad4Ever]

Yet MORE areas of our life being managed by a centralized authority. Certainly would appear unconstitutional or are we going to hear how this is "interstate commerce" or "general welfare"? Probably both I would predict.

It already is managed by a central authority. That's WHY our internet sucks. We left the internet companies alone and they formed monopolies/duopolies. How many options for internet do you have in your area? One? Two?

You are complaining about how our current system works already.

 

[Jezcoe]

Yet MORE areas of our life being managed by a centralized authority. Certainly would appear unconstitutional or are we going to hear how this is "interstate commerce" or "general welfare"? Probably both I would predict.

How is finding broadband infrastructure unconstitutional?

Is federal funding of any infrastructure verboten?

 

[mrjurrs]

Yet MORE areas of our life being managed by a centralized authority. Certainly would appear unconstitutional or are we going to hear how this is "interstate commerce" or "general welfare"? Probably both I would predict.

If you don't know why broadband would fall under interstate commerce, maybe you could learn more by reading a newspaper...

 

[BlueTex]

God knows there's nothing more important than being able to pirate movies in seven seconds.

Should we just write off rural America? I mean, screw them, right?

 

[Nomad4Ever]

God knows there's nothing more important than being able to pirate movies in seven seconds.

If this isn't a joke...this is just a nonsense thing to say. The idea that internet isn't important to the economy and individual people, both in speed and the insane pricing, is bizarre.

How can you actually believe that having cheaper and faster internet is of no importance?

 

[BlueTex]

Yet MORE areas of our life being managed by a centralized authority. Certainly would appear unconstitutional or are we going to hear how this is "interstate commerce" or "general welfare"? Probably both I would predict.

LMAO.... Where do you think those telecom companies get the rights to MY land? Cheese and rice, few things more stupid than the MAGA crowd...

 

[ClaraD]

White House announces $40 billion in broadband funding

States will receive at least $100 million

www.theverge.com

Fantastic news! The US has lagged behind other developed countries in internet access and speed for sometime.


It is high time we joined the rest of our peers. It is absurd that we are behind so many countries when it comes to such an important aspect of the modern world.

This is indeed good news...a good portion of rural South Carolina (including where I live) has zero broad band.

 

[Winston]

Good governance

 

[ClaraD]

It already is managed by a central authority. That's WHY our internet sucks. We left the internet companies alone and they formed monopolies/duopolies. How many options for internet do you have in your area? One? Two?

You are complaining about how our current system works already.

We have zero, except a government rural company that isn't broad band.

 

[ttwtt78640]

White House announces $40 billion in broadband funding

States will receive at least $100 million

www.theverge.com

Fantastic news! The US has lagged behind other developed countries in internet access and speed for sometime.


It is high time we joined the rest of our peers. It is absurd that we are behind so many countries when it comes to such an important aspect of the modern world.

OK, the Biden administration is doing what congress has authorized it to do.

The funding, authorized in Biden’s 2021 bipartisan infrastructure package, will be distributed proportionally to states based on need with each state receiving at least $100 million. Monday’s allocations were made using broadband coverage maps that were recently updated to include more than one million new locations.

States will be expected to submit their plans for using the funding by December. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), housed in the Commerce Department, plans to approve these plans before next spring when it will begin allocating 20 percent of a state’s authorized funding and infrastructure deployment can begin. By the end of 2025, at least 80 percent of the funding will be allocated.

 

[Nomad4Ever]

Should we just write off rural America? I mean, screw them, right?

Right?

He probably would have complained about "big gubberment" when we subsidized electricity companies building power lines out to rural communities too. These people like to posture as supporting rural little guys but they actually hate when the government does anything to actually improve their lives.

 

[Taylor]

Oh btw if anyone wondered why US internet sucks so bad

Who wonders that??

 

[SuperDS77]

It already is managed by a central authority. That's WHY our internet sucks.

What is the name of this authority?

We left the internet companies alone and they formed monopolies/duopolies. How many options for internet do you have in your area? One? Two?

Probably around 4-6 legitimate options. My internet service at home and phone work quite well.

You are complaining about how our current system works already.

I am complaining of the federal government using taxpayer money for such things.

 

[SuperDS77]

How is finding broadband infrastructure unconstitutional?

The question is, how is it CONSTITUTIONAL?

Is federal funding of any infrastructure verboten?

No.

 

[SuperDS77]

If you don't know why broadband would fall under interstate commerce, maybe you could learn more by reading a newspaper...

What is a newspaper?

 

[ClaraD]

What is the name of this authority?

Probably around 4-6 legitimate options. My internet service at home and phone work quite well.

I am complaining of the federal government using taxpayer money for such things.

You have 4 to 6 Internet companies that will service your home? I smell bullshit. You know why? I used to work for Spectrum....the areas are mostly exclusive to companies. We served certain areas other companies like Verizon others....etc. They have set up areas and you get what you get.

 

[j brown's body]

This will help millions of Americans who think Biden is the devil incarnate.

 

[SuperDS77]

LMAO.... Where do you think those telecom companies get the rights to MY land? Cheese and rice, few things more stupid than the MAGA crowd...

Eminent domain I assume. That does not make each circumstance legit.

I do not want the federal government using our taxpayer funds to subsidize large corporations.

 

[instagramsci]

Can't wait for Verizon, Comcast, etc. to use that money for stock buybacks and improve nothing

 

[Mr Person]

God knows there's nothing more important than being able to pirate movies in seven seconds.

I hope someone appears bothered by the stupidity of this hot take so that you can feel comforted that you *got* them.