Hawaii receives grant of $5.5M to Internet for All - KHON2

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Governor David Ige announced the grant of $5,570,883 cardinal successful an “Internet For All” readying assistance to Hawaii from the Biden-Harris administration.

The grants from the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration volition beryllium utilized to program for the deployment of high-speed net networks and make grooming programs for integer skills.

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This is portion of the bipartisan infrastructure Law signed by President Biden. To supply high-speed and reliable net work to the state.

“The challenges we faced implicit the past fewer years showed however important it is to person reliable and affordable net entree is for each residents, whether they unrecorded successful municipality Honolulu oregon a agrarian portion of a neighbour island,” said Gov. Ige.

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“If we didn’t recognize the captious and still-growing value of Internet connectivity and broadband earlier COVID, the pandemic drove location however indispensable it is and however it tin greatly amended tele-anything specified arsenic education, health, concern and communities,” said Congressman Ed Case (HI-01).