Devon Braunstein, director of the Illinois Office of Broadband, said Illinois will be receiving just over $1 billion for the broadband rollout. “So what the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program funds will do is offer the opportunity for internet service providers to build connections to every household and every location who do not have it so by the end of the program they will have at least one option they can subscribe to."
Looks like Illinois just solved the migrant health care bill.
Fed up neighbor
1 year ago
Illinois has a director of broadband, another waste of money,absolutely insane
Daskoterzar
1 year ago
This program was not communicated to the public or local municipalities at all. Also, this program plans to spend $1B in Illinois to build Internet connections to underserved communities where 25/3 Mbps is common. This is often all people can get who pay for it! The “program” was supposed to allow the public to go to a state website, run a speed test 3 times and then the state would use this information to decide who gets some of the $1B to somehow enhance broadband. But gosh…no body heard about it…guess the state will have to “choose” what communities get… Read more »
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Looks like Illinois just solved the migrant health care bill.
Illinois has a director of broadband, another waste of money,absolutely insane
This program was not communicated to the public or local municipalities at all. Also, this program plans to spend $1B in Illinois to build Internet connections to underserved communities where 25/3 Mbps is common. This is often all people can get who pay for it! The “program” was supposed to allow the public to go to a state website, run a speed test 3 times and then the state would use this information to decide who gets some of the $1B to somehow enhance broadband. But gosh…no body heard about it…guess the state will have to “choose” what communities get… Read more »