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Updated · Salt Lake Tribune · May 11Utah Broadband Secures $23 Million to Expand High-Speed Internet Across Rural Utah
9 articles · Updated · Salt Lake Tribune · May 11
- $23 million in grants and loans will fund Utah Broadband's push to extend high-speed internet service into rural parts of northern Utah.
- Utah Broadband said the financing will support network expansion into underserved tracts where residents have had fewer fast-internet options.
- The project targets quieter areas of Cache Valley and nearby rural communities, widening broadband access beyond Utah's more populated corridors.
With rising costs and labor shortages, how will Utah's new rural internet project avoid common delays? As federal subsidies end, can rural Utahns actually afford the new high-speed internet coming their way? Is laying 315 miles of fiber the best way to connect rural Utah, or are there faster alternatives?