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Posted: 5:08 p.m. Friday, July 27, 2012
Would you believe it? At least 12,000 homes and businesses around Washington state don’t have internet access.
The Federal Communications Commission is hoping to change that.
This week, the agency gave $9 million to local internet service providers to extend broadband access.
“It shouldn’t matter who provides service to you, and it shouldn’t matter where you live, that you should have access to these services,” said Shirley Bleeomfield with the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association.
In all, those FCC subsidies are expected to bring internet access to 400,000 people across the country.
The FCC wants every American to have internet access by 2020.
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