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FCC authorizes $172M for broadband access in rural Wyoming

August 24, 2019 /

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The money is part of a nationwide authorization of more than $4.9 billion in support of the effort.

The nationwide authorization is expected to support 455,334 homes and businesses covered by 171 carriers in 39 states and American Samoa. Nearly 45,000 of those locations are on tribal lands.

Carriers have to “maintain, improve, and expand” broadband that meets certain requirements in more than 363,000 of the locations nationwide: 25 megabits per second downstream and 3 Mbps upstream.

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