{"id":23746,"date":"2022-06-08T04:30:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T08:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=23746"},"modified":"2022-06-08T04:30:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T08:30:12","slug":"first-state-projects-from-covid-broadband-fund-approved-by-u-s-treasury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/first-state-projects-from-covid-broadband-fund-approved-by-u-s-treasury\/","title":{"rendered":"First State Projects From COVID Broadband Fund Approved By U.S. Treasury"},"content":{"rendered":"

The U.S. Treasury recently released the first state awards from a $10 billion COVID-19 aid program intended to boost broadband internet access in underserved areas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

$583 million worth of projects were announced for the states of Virginia, West Virginia, Louisiana and New Hampshire.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund, a low-key provision of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act, provides funding for broadband infrastructure and other projects related to work, education and healthcare monitoring.<\/span><\/p>\n

“In the next three years there should not be any excuse while virtually every home in America, north of 98 per cent, shouldn’t have full high-speed broadband connectivity at an affordable rate,” said Democratic Senator Mark Warner in a press conference.<\/span><\/p>\n

Virginia will get $219.8 million to expand “last mile” broadband access to 76,873 locations while West Virginia will receive $136.3 million to connect 20,000 locations. Louisiana will receive $176.7 million to connect 88,500 homes and businesses comprising\u00a0 25 per cent of state locations where high speed internet access remains absent.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, New Hampshire received\u00a0$50 million to connect 15,000 homes and businesses in rural areas, comprising 50 per cent of locations that lack high-speed internet access.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Furthermore, the Treasury separately gave some $6 million to more than 30 tribal governments to upgrade their internet service.<\/span><\/p>\n

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For more information, read the original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The U.S. Treasury recently released the first state awards from a $10 billion COVID-19 aid program intended to boost broadband internet access in underserved areas.\u00a0 $583 million worth of projects were announced for the states of Virginia, West Virginia, Louisiana and New Hampshire. The Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund, a low-key provision of President Joe Biden’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[349,421],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-governance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23747,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23746\/revisions\/23747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}