NTIA’s Effort to Dispense Broadband Funds to Municipalities Is Not Without Obstacles

The NTIA’s notice of funding opportunity stops short of explicitly endorsing municipal broadband as the preferred model.

NTIA’s Effort to Dispense Broadband Funds to Municipalities Is Not Without Obstacles
Photo of Alan Davidson (left) and Drew Clark from Mountain Connect

WASHINGTON, June 9, 2022 – Though the head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration says he looks to “pressure” states with restrictive laws on municipal broadband builds to use infrastructure money for that end, some aren’t convinced that the federal government can get that deep into state affairs.

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