WV broadband dreams

Joe Manchin proposed legislation for a Broadband Deployment fund that “would pay groups and others who successfully apply to pursue expanding access in under- or unserved parts of the Mountain State.”

About a year ago, he thwarted plans for municipalities to create their own broadband internet service, claiming that John Chambers said Cisco would be helping develop rural high speed internet in West Virginia. Whatever happened to that plan?

Tags: broadband, Cisco, joe manchin