Ron DeSantis announces investment in rural broadband

Share
fiberoptics
Broadband internet by Daniel Chetroni via iStock for WMNF News.

Ron DeSantis held a press conference at the South Florida State College Hardee Campus earlier today. The governor announced an investment of around $223 million, continuing the expansion of broadband access in rural areas.

“This’ll be something that’ll be a collaboration of $135 million from our own state broadband opportunity program. That’ll do more than 27 thousand homes, schools, businesses and community facilities and then we’re gonna take $86 million from the federal multipurpose community facility program,” DeSantis said.

DeSantis and other speakers highlighted online schooling, telehealth, and job interviews as opportunities made accessible by supplying broadband to these areas.

DeSantis said this would fund 54 projects in 33 counties and presented a ceremonial 4 million dollar check to Hardee County. The Florida governor said the state broadband opportunity program has now contributed almost $700 million to all but four Florida counties.

Leave a Reply

  • (will not be published)

XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>

You may also like

Environmental advocates call for more electric school buses in Pinellas

Listen: Environmentalists in Pinellas County are calling for a renewed...

Florida Capitol
Ten big issues in the 2025 Florida legislative session

They still have to hammer out a budget, but Florida...

The Scoop: Mon. May 5, 2025, Tampa Bay and Florida headlines by WMNF

Roundup of news headlines produced for WMNF Community Radio: Trump,...

UF higher education university
The U of Michigan leader Santa Ono is the sole pick for the president of the University of Florida

Santa Ono, who leads the University of Michigan, is the...

Ways to listen

WMNF is listener-supported. That means we don't advertise like a commercial station, and we're not part of a university.

Ways to support

WMNF volunteers have fun providing a variety of needed services to keep your community radio station alive and kickin'.

Excellent Zest
Excellent Zest