Missouri will start taking
applications soon for a total of $5-Million in broadband grants authorized by
the state legislature. Missouri Ag
Director Chris Chinn says it’s a first step in getting broadband to more rural
areas of the state…
“Eligible applicants are
going to be corporations and businesses, non-profit organizations and rural
electric cooperatives. The money has to be spent for infrastructure needs and
it has to be for 25 megabytes down and 3 megabytes up, minimum.”
She says those companies must
be working toward the future which will ultimately help farmers, “It’s going to
help lay that middle mile, so to speak, to make sure that we’re one step closer
to getting internet to every farm and ranch and farmgate here in the state of
Missouri.”
Chinn says it is NOT all the money that is needed to expand the reach of high speed internet to all of rural Missouri bit it’s an important part.
Continue reading Missouri broadband grant applications start soon at Brownfield Ag News.
