Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will Make Broadband More Affordable

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act not only provides the means to make broadband service more available by funding deployment of broadband middle-mile and last-mile networks, it also aims to make the service provided more affordable so more people can subscribe and use it. The law allocates over $14 billion to a revised program at the Federal Communications Commission that will subsidize services for low-income households. It requires broadband service providers to reveal more service information, including pricing, to consumers as they compare plans. And it takes unprecedented action against digital redlining which has led to unequal broadband access due to income, race, and ethnicity.

[Kevin Taglang is the Executive Editor at the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society.]