Subsidies for rural broadband deployment enjoy unified political support. Endless rhetoric supports federal funding to make up the difference in areas where the upfront cost of broadband infrastructure is prohibitive.
But now we’ve allocated hundreds of billions of dollars to rural broadband. As Joe Kane writes in Broadband Breakfast, to address the digital divide fully, the next focus should be to target broadband funding to those who need it, even if they live in cities or the suburbs.
Read the op-ed.
