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May 15, 2019Maryville, MO |  By: John Coffey

FCC provides money for United Fiber broadband expansion

United Services based in northwest Missouri has been approved for over 20 million dollars from the FCC to expand it's United Fiber broadband project in the region. Chief Development Officer with United Fiber, Darren Farnan says the additional money will allow United Fiber to expedite it's high speed internet project into more areas in northwest Missouri.

"There's a lot of short term technology like satellite and wireless that's kind of a mandate and gets service out there for a little while.  But it doesn't provide the services that are scaleble that can do the type of video service that education and healthcare require.  So this allows us to get real fiber out to those rural markets where you can't make a specific business case."

The FCC has approved the money to be allocated over the next ten years but Farnan says engineering work already completed should allow United Fiber to complete the project in the next three to four years. Money allocated from the FCC is designed to provide high speed broadband to rural residents in Andrew, Buchanan, DeKalb, Gentry, Nodaway and Platte Counties.