WXPR: Lac du Flambeau Band looks to boost high-speed Internet

The Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is working with local governments to improve high-speed Internet service in rural Wisconsin:
A slow but steady move forward is how a spokesperson for the Lac du Flambeau tribe describes the effort to provide a regional high-speed internet service.

The tribe, Vilas County Economic Development and the town of Minocqua and others are partners in the effort.

Tribal Education Director Joni Theobald says a key step was a completed feasibility study...

"....it's a completed feasibility(study) and now were looking at how do we slowly roll this out? How do we leverage the federal funding that comes with these types of developments. In a nutshell, that is where we are at...."

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