Limited infrastructure Cost to get all Americans to high speed – have to think not only last mile but middle mile connections Inadequate data & misinformation Related to FCC – tell us where broadband is and is not – do so with self-reported data from providers within a census block; the challenge is that it influences federal funding yearly. One house has a connection so the census block is not eligible for federal or state funding Recent federal efforts: CARES Act $150 billion Federal govt has invested a lot of money in the past year; used funding to help educational, healthcare, libraries; reposition themselves to provide remote support during pandemic