{"id":63104,"date":"2025-08-06T17:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T17:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/63104\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T17:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T17:33:12","slug":"mn-rural-communities-have-to-wait-longer-for-internet-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/63104\/","title":{"rendered":"MN rural communities have to wait longer for internet access"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201c[BEAD] has derailed broadband deployment in Minnesota and other states,\u201d said Brent Christensen, president of the Minnesota Telecom Alliance. \u201cWe already had a program that was working. We\u2019re kind of stalled right now. We\u2019re hoping we get back up and going. We don\u2019t have a lot left, but we\u2019ve got Minnesotans that don\u2019t have it that need it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In May, Sen. Amy Klobuchar joined 11 other Democratic senators calling<\/a> on President Donald Trump to release the BEAD funds. The letter said that states were ready to build networks and \u201crural and tribal communities cannot afford more delays.\u201d<\/p>\n

On June 6,<\/a> the Trump administration restructured the BEAD program, changing and replacing some guidelines. Many broadband companies had already turned in their grant applications and were instructed to redo them. Consolidated Communications had to redo its applications in 90 days to meet the new administration\u2019s guidelines.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey basically took a program that we have been working on for years and said you need to redo it,” said Consolidated Communications\u2019 Davis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201c[BEAD] has derailed broadband deployment in Minnesota and other states,\u201d said Brent Christensen, president of the Minnesota Telecom…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[174,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-63104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}