Persistent barriers to broadband expansion need to be removed

Thursday, March 2, 2023

In April of last year, I wrote in The Missouri Times about the importance of accelerating broadband deployment and the need for more widespread high--speed Internet access in Bollinger County, which ranks among the least connected counties in Missouri. Since then we have achieved some real progress, like the $400 million American Rescue Plan Act investment in broadband, which the state tapped in 2021, as well as a $15 million pole replacement fund created last year. We now need to build on this momentum by removing the remaining barriers holding up broadband expansion in Bollinger County.

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