HOMER, La.—A $14 billion federal program to increase access to high-speed internet faces an early hurdle: The people who need it most are the hardest to reach because they aren’t online.
That has turned Veneeth Iyengar, executive director of Louisiana’s broadband office, into a town crier as he drives to small towns in remote parishes to spread word of the $30-a-month subsidy now available to low-income households. Most of the local officials he has met with hadn’t heard of the program, he said.
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