If you live in rural Wisconsin, you know how bad the internet service can be. More than 40 percent of rural residents lack access to high speed internet, according to the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin.
Nationally, about 31 percent of rural households lack access. Actual percentages might even be higher due to poor FCC mapping, experts say.
The
Wisconsin government has done relatively little to help. From 2013 to
2019, while Republicans had total control of government, the state
funded a total of about $20 million in grants for expansion of
broadband...
Reports for Ken Notes:
...moreKen Notes: I will try this one more time. We must immediately begin negotiations with the cell and fiber backbone providers to mandate rural service in exchange for access to our urban areas. There is more than enough profit to do this.
The state should not invest in rural access because they do not have enough money but they have more than enough leverage if they work with all the communities. Anita gets this, Colorado is doing this, there is an initiative established to do this, Homeland Security suggest it is imperative we do this, Federal Communications Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel supports this -- yet Wisconsin is doing nothing excepting gifting money to the infrastructure developers for cable they have to lay anyway. Call your state rep or the governor and ask for the state to join the 5G Securing Rural Engagement Initiative NOW. Tomorrow is too late....
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