FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr visited western Montana on Tuesday as the guest of Senator Steve Daines to learn about and review communications issues in a rural state like Montana.
This week Senator Steve Daines spoke with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development and Rural Utilities Service asking officials to consider extending broadband services to Montanans that currently don’t have service.
The Montana Public Service Commission has reached a settlement with Century Link over service complaints from customers. PSC Public Information Officer Eric Sell explained the deal.
"The complaints originated out of service quality in the Missouri River area in between Great Falls and Helena, but now it's kind of evolved also into providing access to broadband services for Montana," Sell