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40,944 Members of Montana’s Tribal Population Have No Access to Fixed Broadband

Tribal Broadband
: Status
of Deployment
and
Federal
Funding
Programs
Lennard G. Kruger
Specialist in Science and Technology Policy

T
ribal
areas and communities continue to lag behind other areas and segments of American
society
w
ith respect to broadband
and telecommunications services
.
High poverty rates and low
income levels in
t
ribal
lands

along with the fact that many t
ribal communities
are located in
remote rural areas (often with rugged terrain)

are major factors that
may
explain why
tribal
areas have comparatively poor levels of broadband
access
, and why
providers may lack an
economic incentive to serve those areas.

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44416.pdf?mc_cid=13431c42bc&mc_eid=c376e7796b

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