I’ll take Zip-Zero-Nada for $100 Gazillion,Alex.
I live in a small rural town in northern NH.
A few months ago the town officials applied for a grant under the act and got it.
Even though they had a presentation from the feds and help with the paperwork, they neglected to fill out the forms for the areas outside of the village.
So we, in the village will have high speed (both upload and download) by December.
Those on the back roads won't.
All of the folks in the surrounding towns will have high speed internet no matter where they live as their bureaucrats did their job.
Contractors are stringing MANY miles of fiber right now.
While I am going to benefit from it, IMHO, it's nuts.
But you never know.
With the greater business activity allowed by high upload speeds, the tax money generated might eventually be greater than the cost.