Illinois’s Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn wants the state to consider requiring its Department of Transportation to install high-speed fiber optic cable under any new stretch of road built in the state.Illinois’s Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn wants the state to consider requiring its Department of Transportation to install high-speed fiber optic cable under any new stretch of road built in the state.
Ed Feser of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, notes that some states have begun dropping fiber “every time there’s a road built.”
Quinn chairs the state’s Broadband Deployment Council which gives grants to extend broadband high-speed service to unserved areas of the state.
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