Tennessee encourages private cooperation versus government to help with rural broadband
Gov. Bill Lee (R-TN) understands a life without broadband internet. In fact, he still doesn't have high-speed internet inside his rural home in Fernvale, the small unincorporated community between Franklin and Leiper's Fork. Rural broadband was a part of Lee's 2018 campaign, and the governor told the organization he planned to follow in the footsteps of former-Gov. Bill Haslam (R-TN) to hand out grants in the state to rural areas that need it most.
