The world is about to change for 65 million American housholds: they will be getting broadband connectivity for their residences, and will be able to join the connected world!
Nearly a quarter of American households today don’t have high-speed internet. At an average of two people per household and 131 million households, that works out to 65.5-million unconnected domiciles.
The States now have six months to get their proposals in to the federal regulators to show how they propose to spend their allotments.
The UN has declared that broadband is so essential to interaction today that it is one of the very basic human rights — and it has been for the past ten years. Increasing Internet access is one of the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as it plays a central role in “accelerating human progress.”
It also condemns any government that willingly disrupts their citizens’ free access to the Internet.