Pa. to receive $6.6 million to expand internet accessibility across the state - PennLive

Pennsylvania volition person $6.6 cardinal to assistance grow net accessibility passim the state, Governor Tom Wolf announced today.

“Pennsylvania’s deficiency of affordable, accessible broadband is 1 of the biggest challenges holding our system back,” Wolf said successful an announcement connected Dec. 6. “This $6.6 cardinal is the opening of a generational alteration waiting for Pennsylvanians.”

The wealth has been allocated to the authorities from the national Internet for All initiative, portion of the Biden administration’s infrastructure spending and distributed by the U.S. Department of Commerce. The inaugural volition spot $45 cardinal spent crossed the country, with a full of 100 cardinal to beryllium yet spent successful Pennsylvania.

Wolf was joined by Kevin Gallagher, elder advisor to the U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, for the announcement of this archetypal installment astatine the Pennsylvania capitol building.

“Pennsylvanians recognize that unequal entree to the Internet means unequal entree to educational, economical and healthcare services and opportunities,” Raimondo said. “These grants volition enactment Pennsylvania connected the way to equitably execute high-speed Internet work for each residents.”

The $6.6 cardinal volition beryllium administered by the Pennsylvania Broadband Authority, which has precocious announced a statewide program to code entree needs crossed the state. Those plans see processing the indispensable infrastructure to enactment high-speed interent successful agrarian communities, arsenic good arsenic expanding entree successful municipality areas.