Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has signed the Tennessee Broadband Accessibility Act into law, releasing $45 million, to be disbursed over the next three years, in the form of grants and tax credits for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) making broadband service available to unserved homes and businesses.
About six percent of Tennessee homes are unserved, studies have concluded. The bigger problem is the percentage of homes that do not have access at speeds at least 25 Mbps.
Perhaps 17 percent of Tennessee homes apparently did not have 25 Mbps access in 2014, while 66 percent did have such access.
Fixed network adoption in Tennessee seems to have peaked about 2013, even as internet access adoption climbed to 81 percent.
That trend, reported in other earlier studies, suggests that mobile internet now is what is driving incremental subscription growth.
Connected Nation says the plan allows Tennessee’s private, non-profit electric cooperatives to provide retail broadband service and make grant funding available to the state’s local libraries to help residents improve their digital literacy skills.
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