The Box Elder County Commission approved issuing letters of support for two companies seeking federal and state funding to expand broadband infrastructure in rural parts of the county. The letters, requested by Comcast and Strata Networks, are non-exclusive and carry no financial obligation for the county. They are intended to strengthen each company’s application to programs under the federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment initiative and the Utah Broadband Infrastructure Grant program. “There’s roughly 1,124 locations in Box Elder County that are possibly eligible for the ability to go up to broadband... where they would not go to do it...

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