Home Wi-Fi may have seemed like a luxury not long ago. Yet now that nearly everything can - or is required to - be done online, we all need speedy internet to communicate, pay bills, take online classes, and work from home. While you can find free Wi-Fi around your community, it's not an ideal solution for working or learning from home.
Some point to existing law to argue that availability is the only metric Congress allows to measure broadband deployment success. But the law does not require this agency to view broadband availability with one eye closed and the other one half-open.