The funds allocated from the FCC’s Connect America Fund – a project to expand rural internet access kicked off under the Obama Administration in 2013 – amount to $9.3 million, and will be targeted on building out broadband infrastructure capable of 25/3 megabits per second in 11 counties across the state, including Campbell, Converse, Fremont, Johnson, Laramie, Lincoln, Platte, Sheridan, Sweetwater and Teton Counties.