The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will put $42.45 billion into broadband buildout, to be distributed by the states. Less than a year earlier, the FCC’s high-cost Rural Digital Opportunity Fund committed $9 billion for rural buildout and subsidies in some of the same areas. In this post, I’ll explore which RDOF areas are likely to get funded, and what that means for the remaining unserved locations, and the amount of funding each state will have for each remaining unserved location.
In our interviews (https://broadband.money/blog/broadband-money-s-innovator-spotlight-virginia-s-dr-holmes-is-on-the-case-solving-the-mystery-of-the-missing-broadband-connections) with different broadband offices around the country, we're finding that every state has their own approach to this issue. Doug Dawson had some interesting things to say about this as well in our AMA with him recently. (See: https://discuss.broadband.money/c/broadband-grant-events/ask-me-anything-with-doug-dawson)