Source: Travis Fain, WRAL, 5/20/21

 North Carolina will likely use hundreds of millions of dollars in federal coronavirus funding to expand broadband internet in the state, though the details are evolving. House leaders put their plan on the table Thursday to spend roughly $750 million on expansions, most of it through grants paying companies to expand in unserved areas. Gov. Roy Cooper dropped his own plan on Wednesday, coming in at about $1.2 billion.

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