Federal wealth for net enlargement is opening to beryllium distributed to Georgia done an infrastructure spending law passed past year.
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced Monday that Georgia volition person implicit $6.4 cardinal to amended high-speed net access.
It’s the archetypal outgo to Georgia arsenic portion of $65 cardinal appropriated by Congress to assistance money net work successful areas that deficiency online availability. The authorities volition yet person a minimum of $100 cardinal for net enlargement from the infrastructure law, according to the NTIA.
The backing builds connected $408 million successful COVID-19 alleviation backing announced earlier this twelvemonth that volition beryllium spent to bring net work to implicit 132,000 homes and businesses successful Georgia.
In all, the infrastructure instrumentality included implicit $1 trillion successful spending implicit the adjacent decennary to amended the nation’s roads, bridges, inferior grid, proscription networks and net availability.
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Mark Niesse covers voting rights and elections for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He besides reports connected the Georgia House of Representatives and government. He has been a newsman astatine the AJC since 2013 pursuing a decennary astatine The Associated Press successful Atlanta, Honolulu and Montgomery, Ala.
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