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FCC awards $126M for Internet in rural Montana – Now what? Questions remain about final product
Nearly $126 million in federal funds have been awarded to six firms to bring high-speed Internet to some rural areas in Montana – but questions remain about what the final product will look like.
“If you’re one of those unserved customers and you have somebody maybe coming and delivering broadband where you don’t have it – I can’t see anything wrong with that,” said Geoff Feiss of the Montana Telecommunication Association. “But once you start peeling that onion back and start looking at the details, is where some of the concerns arise.”
The six companies will have six years to make high-speed Internet available to about 46,000 unserved locations in Montana. It’s all part of $9 billion awarded last week by the Federal Communications Commission, in an auction of Internet-service subsidies for rural America.
By: Mike Dennison
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