CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – South Carolina volition receive astir $6 million to deploy high-speed net networks and make integer skills grooming programs.
The assistance is portion of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Internet for All initiative.
According to the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), the Palmetto State volition person $5,953,478.05 successful backing from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, signed by President Biden, to program for the deployment and adoption of affordable, equitable, and reliable high-speed Internet work passim the state.
“I convey Governor McMaster for his efforts to span the integer disagreement successful South Carolina,” said Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo. “Internet connectivity is an indispensable portion of our regular lives, truthful it is indispensable to guarantee that everyone has equitable entree to these services.”
A five-year broad ‘action plan’ volition beryllium developed to place areas of request erstwhile it comes to broadband net access, affordability, equity, and adoption needs.
The backing volition besides let for a much precise appraisal of barriers South Carolinians look erstwhile it comes to entree to broadband service.
According to NTIA, each 50 U.S. states and six territories applied for readying assistance backing for the Internet for All initiative’s Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) programme and the Digital Equity Act program.
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