Governor Wolf makes case for statewide broadband to support education - WFMZ: Restore Pennsylvania is an infrastructure initiative funded by the monetization of a severance tax. Restore Pennsylvania would invest $4.5 billion over the next four years in projects throughout the commonwealth. The initiative would address five priority infrastructure areas including high speed internet access, storm preparedness and disaster recovery, downstream manufacturing, business development, and energy infrastructure, demolition, revitalization, and renewal, and transportation capital projects.
States cannot achieve universal advanced telecom service with these kinds of woefully underfunded, sloganistic initiatives. There simply won't be enough money if the pot is shared with other infrastructure needs as it is here. In a state as large as Pennsylvania, it's doubtful there would be enough even if the entire sum was dedicated to telecom infrastructure. This is too big of a job for states to tackle on their own. The federal government must lead.
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