Public-private partnership helps expand internet access into rural Southeast Nebraska
13 Aug 2025
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A partnership between service providers and county governments has helped dozens of people in rural Southeast Nebraska gain access to more reliable internet, even as funding for future projects and technologies like this grows increasingly uncertain.
Alongside elected officials from the local and state levels, this month Diode Communications and Diller Telephone Company, Southeast Nebraska-based internet service providers, celebrated the culmination of a project that has expanded access to fiber internet to nearly a hundred people in rural Jefferson County via a public-private partnership that was made possible through funding from the Nebraska Bridge Program.
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