How the infrastructure package could fix rural America's internet problems
Story Date: 11/23/2021

 

Source: Katie Lobosco, WRAL, 11/21/21

 Jamie Ritter can't connect to the internet from his home in Denmark, Maine, which is at the end of a road, down a dirt driveway and too far away from existing infrastructure. He's been shepherding a community effort to bring broadband to Maine's lake region for more than a year. The new $65 billion federal investment in broadband included in the bipartisan infrastructure legislation signed Monday could help finally make it a reality -- but he warns it still won't be easy.

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