Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., unveiled a proposal to guarantee universal high-speed internet access on Wednesday as part of a new plan to invest in rural communities.
Warren said she will create a federal Office of Broadband Access that will manage an $85 billion grant program.
Warren said she will create a federal Office of Broadband Access that will manage an $85 billion grant program. The grants will be awarded to electricity and telephone cooperatives, nonprofits, tribes, and municipalities that pledge to bring high-speed internet to underserved areas. Applicants will be required to offer internet speed at 100 megabits per second — fast enough to download a two hour movie in a little over two minutes — in addition to at least one discount internet plan.
"One of the best tools for unlocking economic opportunity and advances in health care, like telemedicine, is access to reliable, high-speed Internet. In the twenty-first century, every home should have access to this technology — but we're not even close to that today," Warren wrote.
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