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This week on my podcast, I read "All (Broadband) Politics Are Local," my @Medium column about the horrific state of US broadband, the pandemic's worsening of the situation and the near-miraculous shift in US political will for universal fiber:
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If you'd like an unrolled version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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US broadband has been a shitshow since GW Bush killed DSL line-sharing in 2001, which relegated Americans to getting their connectivity from monopolists who divided up the country into non-competing zones like the Pope dividing up the "New World":
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We've put together a multi-part series on #broadband provisions in the #infrastructure bill:
benton.org/digital-beat?t…
Analysis organized around: Deployment | Adoption | Middle-Mile | Workforce Training | Tribal Connectivity
#DigitalEquity #InfrastructureBill
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We've put together a multi-part series on #broadband provisions in the #infrastructure bill:
benton.org/digital-beat?t…
Analysis organized around: Deployment | Adoption | Middle-Mile | Workforce Training | Tribal Connectivity
#DigitalEquity #InfrastructureBill
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First up: Over *$42 Billion* for broadband deployment grants to the states.
The Largest U.S. Investment in Broadband Deployment Ever: benton.org/blog/largest-u…
The Largest U.S. Investment in Broadband Deployment Ever: benton.org/blog/largest-u…
The #infrastructure bill will not just build broadband networks, it aims to ensure that every American can use reliable high-speed internet service.
Enter: #TheDigitalEquityAct
Enter: #TheDigitalEquityAct
The Biden broadband plan set aside $100B to build out universal fiber; that number was way too low (it was derived from the fraudulent broadband maps the monopoly telcos produce).
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The true figure is much higher ($240B!), and ::sad trombone:: the GOP whittled Biden down to $65B. It's easy to see this as the GOP stabbing its rural base in the back (and yup, that's what they're doing), but there's a LOT of urban broadband deserts.
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Apologists for shitty broadband - and Musk cultists who insist that we can provide high speed broadband with satellites that all share the same, contested spectrum, physics be damned - say the US's terrible internet is due to its vast open spaces, too spread out to wire up.
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