“Internet for All”: Inside the Rapid Expansion of Hawai‘i’s Broadband Infrastructure - Hawaii Business Magazine

“Internet for All”: Inside the Rapid Expansion of Hawai‘i’s Broadband Infrastructure - Hawaii Business Magazine

In 2018, as transpacific cables increasingly connected Asia directly to the U.S. mainland – bypassing Hawai‘i – Sylvia Luke, then chair of the state House Finance Committee, says she became concerned the state might be left behind. Then the pandemic expanded everyone’s dependence on reliable connectivity for online learning, remote work, telehealth and much more. “Broadband all of a sudden became a top-of-mind issue,” with government seeing it a…