H.R. 8144 — Quality Broadband for Connected Communities Act

This section increases the minimum broadband transmission capacity required to consider a rural community unserved for projects under the Community Connect Grant Program—which provides grants for broadband deployment in rural areas without sufficient service—to 25 Mbps downstream and 3 Mbps upstream (from 10 Mbps downstream and 1 Mbps upstream). (Thus, fewer locations qualify as unserved for grant priority.)