President Biden wants to ‘connect every person in America to reliable high-speed internet by 2030.’ Texas and California get most of the cash, but every state gets a piece of the broadband pie.
The Biden administration today unveiled a giant round of federal grants with an equally outsized goal: get a broadband connection to everybody in the United States by 2030.
The $42.45 billion in allocations span all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, as well as American Samoa, Guam, the US Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, drawing on funding included in 2021’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
“It’s the biggest investment in high-speed internet ever,” President Biden said at a White House event Monday. “We’re going to be able to connect every person in America to reliable high-speed Internet by 2030.”
The formula used to determine these Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) grants emphasizes the number of unconnected locations that would be expensive to connect.
