One pandemic-driven solution in Kentucky has been to put mobile hotspots in public school parking lots so kids without internet at home can keep up with schoolwork, but that isn’t without its own flaws https://t.co/Ne47p3SkS9

— CNET (@CNET) February 18, 2021

https://www.cnet.com/features/biden-broadband-plan-digital-divide-appalachia-rural-test-case/

How faster internet is being blocked by politics and poverty throughout the eastern US

While FCC data holds that about 93% of Kentucky has broadband access, last September, Microsoft vice president Shelley McKinley said the portion of the state’s population actually using the internet at broadband speeds (defined as 25 Mbps down and 3 Mbps up) is only about 31%. Those findings echo Microsoft’s 2016 estimates that 162.8 million Americans are not using the internet at broadband speeds compared to the FCC’s count of 24.7 million.

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