Six out of 38 USDA broadband awards will go to Rural Partners Network areas that have persistent poverty. In a briefing with reporters,
The USDA broadband technical assistance grants will go to providers and recipients of technical assistance and to projects that
The USDA ReConnect round 4 awards are in the form of grants, although loans also will be made. The three providers are all in
The key Farm Bill broadband program is the USDA ReConnect program, which pays some costs of deploying service to rural areas. Associations
Two telecom cooperatives are slated to receive rural broadband ReConnect funding. USDA also awarded grants to