President Biden is heading to North Carolina on Thursday to announce $82 million in new investments to connect homes and businesses in the state to high-speed internet.
He will go to the Raleigh-Durham area in the critical battleground state to make the announcement, alongside Gov. Roy Cooper (D). The funding comes from the American Rescue Plan, which was the COVID-19 relief package Biden signed into law in 2021, and aims to connect an additional 16,000 homes and businesses in North Carolina.
The investment, according to a fact sheet from the White House, will also create jobs in manufacturing and construction to produce “Made-in-America fiber-optic cable that will build out internet infrastructure across the country.”
Will there be any rule changes/enforcement to keep ISP's from dividing up territories into regional monopolies?
I have two AT&T fibers running under my front yard, but they'll only offer me a dial up connection. Spectrum cable is my only real option, and they keep raising the price.
My problem has nothing to do with a lack of infrastructure and is clearly the result of collusion that is supposedly illegal.