RCR Wireless Report

Getting to Ubiquity:
The Urban and Rural Digital Divide

Local, state and federal agencies have doubled down on their efforts to close what is commonly called the Digital Divide. These efforts include subsidies for network infrastructure buildouts to underserved communities as well as measures meant to focus on affordability, digital equity and digital skills acquisition.

In this report, RCR Wireless News provides four assessments of the state of the digital divide in the United States and the ways to measure that divide.

Key takeaways include:

• The COVID-19 pandemic has been an unprecedented driver of public broadband funding
• More than $100 billion in federal funding over the next 10 years are expected to drive further broadband expansion
• Even with the funding we might continue to see challenges with deployment and end user adoption