The Trump Administration is pushing states to put more federal funding into slower, but cheaper-to-install, satellite internet. Critics fear a giveaway to the companies of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
The troubled internet and phone company has more than 130,000 customers in Wisconsin, many of them rural.
The telecommunications giant has received more than $215 million in federal funding for internet projects across the state since 2015.
Local companies and co-ops have done more for rural broadband expansion in Wisconsin, experts say
Frontier, Charter and TDS had asked for tens of millions in funding.
The phone and internet company has already received more than $180 million from the federal government to improve service in the state
Governor asks legislature for $200 million for broadband expansion and aid; feds sending billions in help at some point
