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Broadband costs too much for some people. Fixing that won't be easy


Broadband costs too much for some people. Fixing that won t be easy
CNET
2 hrs ago
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Some Americans don t have home internet because there s no service where they live. But others can t afford it. 
When the novel coronavirus forced schools to shut down last March, Maegen Wagner, a single mother living near Reading, Pennsylvania, was thankful for at least one thing: She didn t need to worry about how she d pay for internet service. 
Since her divorce in 2017, the 39-year-old mother of two children had been enrolled in Comcast s Internet Essentials program, which offers low-income families broadband access for only $9.95 per month. While money was already tight before the pandemic began, things got even worse for Wagner when she lost her assistant teaching job just as remote learning classes resumed in the fall.  ....

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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 ....

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