Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)
announced a plan to increase rural and low-income internet access by creating what she called a “public option for broadband.”
In a Medium post published Wednesday, Warren laid out a plan to bring a broadband connection to every American home for a reasonable price.
The proposition would allow local governments to essentially treat the internet like a public utility, and includes giving municipalities the right to build broadband network.
The plan would also include an $85 billion federal grant program that will to massively expand broadband access across the country, the restoration of net neutrality, and a program to improve accuracy of broadband maps.
According to the FCC, in 2017 26.4% of people living in rural areas and 32.1% of people living on tribal lands did not have access to minimum speed broadband (25 Mbps/ 3 Mbps), compared to 1.7% in urban areas,” she wrote in the post.
