The federal government is trying to expand internet access to everyone in the country with a program called Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD).
Pennsylvania was awarded just over $1 billion of BEAD money to expand access to high-speed broadband in unserved and underserved areas.
“What we’re trying to do is to make sure in our five-county region that we know exactly where those locations are that need service,” said Jennifer Wakeman, the executive director of DRIVE, an economic development group serving Columbia, Montour, Snyder, Union, and Northumberland Counties.
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