Can blockchain save broadband for rural health care?
Some rural health care facilities and their broadband providers are complaining about inadequate broadband subsidies. At issue is the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Rural Health Care (RHC) Program, which the 1996 Telecommunications Act directed the FCC to create. For fiscal year 2017, applicants for subsidies requested $521.33 million. They are receiving less than 75 percent of the requested figure because only $388.22 million is available. (There is a $400 million
