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April 16, 2019

With billions to spend, feds unsure who lacks broadband

  • A $4.5 billion program to expand rural wireless internet was put on hold as the FCC investigates whether carriers submitted incorrect data for the maps used to allocate grants.
    • By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE
    Associated Press

    There is a way around the notoriously sluggish internet in West Virginia. You just need a car and some time.

    Kelly Povroznik can tell you, when she happens to get a good signal. She teaches an online college course so hampered by unreliable connections that she has had to drive a half-hour to her brother’s place just to enter grades into a database.


     
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