US reveals how it will spend $42 billion in broadband subsidies
The US government has decided it needs to subsidise its broadband sector to make sure everyone has access to the internet.
The programme is called Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment – BEAD for short. The $42.45 billion of public funding had previously been announced but, for some reason, the President and Vice President decided to make a big event of announcing how that money is going to be distributed. They even drafted in some bloke to talk about what a nightmare having rubbish int
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