The Infrastructure Law Was Supposed to Move the Preemption Needle But …
In March of 2021, President Biden first issued his vision for a bipartisan infrastructure bill – which would eventually include $65 billion for broadband expansion with $42.5 billion of that earmarked for building new networks under the BEAD program. The President wanted to center nonprofit municipal and cooperative business models in his plan to connect unserved and underserved communities, while bringing competition to a broken market that has left Americans paying among the highest prices for high-speed Internet service of any developed nation in the world.