Rural North Dakota and Montana receives $18.5 million for broadband

BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) – It may be costly to run web to rural areas. That’s why the federal authorities has granted $18.5 million for high-speed web for greater than a thousand rural residents in North Dakota and Montana.

The cash is offered partly by means of america Division of Agriculture’s ReConnect Program and is part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation signed into regulation final 12 months.

These concerned with this system say the grant part of this system is important due to the excessive prices related to operating web to rural areas.

“It is rather costly to serve a few of these very, very rural areas. It will probably price virtually as a lot as your private home infrastructure, that means your own home, to get a cable a number of miles down a highway from a central workplace to your location,” mentioned Shane Hart of RTC Networks.

Reservation Phone Cooperative will use the $18.5 million grant to attach greater than a thousand folks, 67 companies and 91 farms in Dunn, McKenzie, and McLean counties in North Dakota and Richland and Wibaux counties in Montana.

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