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HR 2665 117th Congress House

Local Telecom Expansion Act of 2021

Official title: To direct the Federal Communications Commission to establish a program to make grants to States for the deployment of broadband service in underserved areas by… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To direct the Federal Communications Commission to establish a program to make grants to States for the deployment of broadband service in underserved areas by small business broadband providers, and for other purposes.

Introduced: April 19, 2021 Introduced by: Van Drew, Jefferson Republican · New Jersey See on congress.gov
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Apr 20, 2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
Apr 19, 2021
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Apr 19, 2021
Introduced in House
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 Latest action April 20, 2021

Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Local Telecom Expansion Act of 2021

This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission to establish a program for awarding grants to states for the deployment of broadband service in underserved areas by small business broadband providers.

A state that receives such a grant must use the funds to make subgrants to small business broadband providers that enable those providers to deploy broadband service in underserved areas in the state. This broadband service must have (1) a download speed of at least 25 megabits per second (Mbps); (2) an upload speed of at least 10 Mbps; and (3) latency that is sufficiently low to allow real-time, interactive applications.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2665: Local Telecom Expansion Act of 2021. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-2665/
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"H.R. 2665: Local Telecom Expansion Act of 2021." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-2665/.
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H.R. 2665, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-2665/.
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