Senators introduce bipartisan bill to increase internet access in rural areas

Senators from both parties introduced legislation on Wednesday to make it easier for broadband companies to install broadband along existing infrastructure, such as federal highways, to help increase internet access in rural America.

Sens. Steve Daines, a Montana Republican, and Mark Kelly, an Arizona Democrat, introduced the bipartisan Accelerating Rural Broadband Deployment Act to ensure the cost of installing broadband internet is not too high and to increase transparency in the broadband infrastructure license awarding process.