Federal and state funding will provide $4.5 billion for rural Texans needing high-speed internet
29 Jun 2023
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Texas stands to receive more than $3 billion in federal funding to build out broadband internet across the state.
It’s the largest single chunk of money for broadband provided to any state and it’s among the fruits of the Biden administration’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which will allocate $42.5 billion in funding to get every household in the U.S. broadband internet by 2030.
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