Rural Broadband upgrade

Getting remote Iowa connected

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Rural broadband is getting an upgrade thanks to federal funding.

Kimt news 3's alex jirgens is hearing from u?

"*s agriculture secretary sonny perdue about what this means for our area.

He joins us live near mason city ?

"* alex?xxx george ?

"* as someone who's personally experienced iffy internet growing up in the country ?

"* i have long waited for faster broadband to come to my home.

That's already reality in some parts of the country ?

"* and will soon be in our area.

Agriculture secretary sonny perdue announced that the trump administration is investing 24 million dollars for broadband service in unserved and underserved parts of rural iowa.

Harmony telephone company ?

"* which serves customers in both minnesota and iowa ?

"* will receive neary 10 million to deploy fiber to the premises network in their service area.

Both secretary perdue and harmony board chairman brian krambeer have seen how the pandemic has laid bare just how much we "this pandemic, as you mentioned secretary perdue, has really shown us that access to high speed broadband in rural areas is critical and essential, just as electricity was in the 1930s."

The grants are part of the reconnect program ?

"* which was officialy announced last december.

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"*a will make up 600 million dollars in grants and loans available to cooperatives ?

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"*profi* mutual associations and other applicants.

Live in cerro thank you alex.