Earlier this month, the trades publication Broadband Breakfast reported on a public draft of a Federal Communications Commission inquiry. That document asked for comments “into its $2.5 billion-per-year broadband subsidy for schools and libraries would ask commenters whether or not the program should see its funding reduced or sunset.”
This program, now in its third decade, was created to, as Broadband Breakfast states, “to address a lack of internet access in education centers.” It stated that the draft notes “that in the decades since, most schools report having broadband and infrastructure has expanded widely.”
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