Broadband funding is, by and large, one of the few issues with reliable, bipartisan support. It has become an increasingly high priority, as evidenced by the more than $100 billion in federal, state and local funding that are being invested both in the short term and over the next decade.
It’s a long-term boom, not a broadband bubble: While some of the funds currently being disbursed are still from pandemic relief and/or recovery measures, other programs have funding spread out over five to 10 years.
