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Courtesy of The Hill‘s Brendan Sasso, the FCC is making another major contribution to boost efforts aimed at closing the digital divide:
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said on Wednesday that it will spend $115 million over the next three years to expand high-speed Internet service to 400,000 homes and businesses that currently lack it.
That funding will be coupled with “tens of millions” of dollars of private investment, the commission said.
The money is part of the FCC’s Connect America Fund, a subsidy that the commission created last year when it overhauled its Universal Service Fund, which focused on ensuring telephone access.
