States are about to hand out federal funding for broadband internet. Not every state is ready for the task

States have until December 27 to tell the federal government how they plan to distribute the funds. As of November 15, no state had completed that process.

When the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was signed in late 2021, it included $42.5 billion for broadband internet access as part of the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program. The program aims to ensure that broadband access is available throughout the country. This effort differs from previous federal broadband programs because it promised to allocate the funding to individual states and allow them to figure out the best way to distribute it.

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