FCC Provides $11.2 Million to Rural Broadband Experiments

The FCC authorized $11.2 million in government funding for four parties to carry out experiments to provide broadband to 15,000 rural consumers, the agency announced Friday in a release. Skybeam will extend fixed wireless service in several counties of Illinois, Kansas and Texas; Allamakee-Clayton Electric Cooperative will extend hybrid fiber/fixed service in an Iowa county; Consolidated Communications Networks will extend fiber broadband in a North Dakota county; and Delta Communications will extend fiber in various Illinois counties.