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EXPLAINER: What Biden's new $100B plan for broadband means
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The problems with U.S. broadband networks have been obvious for years. Service costs more than in many other rich nations, it still doesn't reach tens of millions of Americans and the companies that provide it don't face much competition.
Now the Biden administration is promising to do something about all of those issues as part of its proposed $2.3 trillion infrastructure package.
The plan, which would devote $100 billion to get all Americans connected, is more idea than policy and lacks a lot of important detail.
But it sketches out a striking new vision of activist government measures intended to improve high-speed internet service, following decades in which the government has largely left the job to private companies.
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