This article suggests eight steps the National Telecommunications and Information Administration should take to make the broadband provisions in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act a success. Those steps include helping states ramp up their broadband offices, hiring personnel skilled in federal broadband grants, and improving coordination between the agencies that support broadband deployment.
A blog post about how the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act encourages entities to work together, including via public-private partnerships (P3). In particular, the act’s Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program gives a broad definition to the term “Subgrantee” and says that P3s cannot be excluded from funding.
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act offers enhancements to the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program so that it can better aid in the delivery of broadband to some of the areas with the worst connectivity in the country. Some of these enhancements include time extensions for grantees, more flexibility, and an extra $2 billion in funding.
This piece lays out details of the Telecommunications Skilled Workforce Act, legislation that addresses the shortage of trained telecommunications workers across the United States and calls for an official estimate of the number of skilled workers needed, a collaborative effort to craft recommendations addressing workforce needs, and guidance on how states can help.
This landmark legislation, signed into law in November 2021, enables infrastructure investment related to highways, rail systems, bridges, climate change, and broadband infrastructure and adoption, among other items.
Executive director of the Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband (SHLB) Coalition John Windhausen discusses what the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act includes and what it omits. The Act includes a number of SHLB Coalition initiatives, but Windhausen worries that anchor institutions may not end up with the gigabit speeds called for in the National Broadband Plan.
This resource describes the National Information and Telecommunications Administration's role in implementing the broadband-related aspects of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
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