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.
The phone and internet company has already received more than $180 million from the federal government to improve service in the state