The Western Governors’ Association applauded the Rural Utility Service’s (RUS) new broadband pilot program in a July 17, 2018 letter to Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service (RUS) Administrator Kenneth Johnson. “Federal efforts, such as the RUS’s new broadband pilot program, are critical to closing the digital divide,” said WGA Executive Director James Ogsbury. “WGA appreciates that this new program will focus on rural areas that are either significantly or wholly underserved.” Read, download the letter.
