Like other states, Texas found out during the pandemic how critical high-speed broadband is for school, work and medicine. And the state is working to expand it — but it’s going to be at least a year before Texans start to see results.
feedback. His office is mapping the have and have-not areas of broadband in the state and will likely be the office that funnels federal money coming to Texas into the places that qualify for it.
His broadband development office will have a report out in mid-June, laying the way for broadband expansion, says Greg Conte, the director. Later in the year, they’ll have a detailed map of the state — property by property — to show where expansion is needed. Conte, Harris and others say the state won’t know how much money they’re getting until federal officials compile maps from all the states.
Each state will get a minimum of $100 million in federal infrastructure money for broadband, and then a chunk of another $42.5 billion will be divided on the basis of maps from each state. The wild-guess estimates from the experts are that Texas will get $1 billion to $4 billion. Those maps are like the one Hegar is working on, Harris said in a telephone conversation that fell apart two or three times as she drove through one of the sparsest and least connected parts of West Texas.
That other pot of federal money — $500 million in pandemic aid to be awarded late this year on a project-by-project basis — will be available late this year. Also, low-income Texans with access to broadband services that they can’t afford can already tap another federal program that pays up to $30 per month for services.
The delays are frustrating, but state officials are working on it, spending money on it, trying to fix something that’s not right. If only they could pull together more often.
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