A Wisconsin Congressman is critical of how broadband expansion has failed to progress in rural areas.

Third District Republican Derrick Van Orden told a House Ag Committee hearing on closing the digital divide in rural America that government and private sector sources have spent a lot of money without delivering enough service.  He compared the cost of broadband expansion to the inflation-adjusted cost of putting the first man on the moon. “It cost 257 billion dollars to put a man on the moon eight years after John F.

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