Broadband’s have-nots test Biden plan for rural Internet rollout in US

An Internet satellite dish in the yard of a house in Madison, Virginia, US. The Biden administration's US$2 trillion infrastructure plan includes US$100bil to extend broadband networks to all US households, but officials relying on industry data have produced inaccurate maps of Internet deployment. — Bloomberg

US federal maps show R. Clay Jackson’s beef cattle farm in rural Madison County, Virginia, is awash in broadband – a designation that likely rules it out of President Joe Biden’s push to connect all Americans to fast Internet service.

“The assessment is incorrect,” Jackson, owner of Senterfitt Farms and chairman of the Madison County Board of Supervisors, said in an interview. Local broadband is, in fact, sparse. “It puts us at a massive disadvantage as it pertains to applying.”