Source: WRAL, 4/11/21


The pandemic has shone a bright light on the need for expanded rural broadband, and I’m grateful that more than $140 million in state and federal funding has been awarded to a Fortune 100 cable provider and others in the state to connect unserved and underserved rural residents in North Carolina. As this grant funding, which was announced in December, creates a new market for broadband providers in rural communities we must reject efforts by for-profit special interests that would lead to higher costs for North Carolina’s rural consumers.

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