WILKES-BARRE — Lisa Baker, Rosemary Brown and Marty Flynn, who are state senators, announced that the Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority (PBDA) announced Northeast Pennsylvania is being granted $42.5 million to improve access to dependable, high-speed internet.
The endorsed grants include different projects carried out by Adams CATV, Comcast Cable and Verizon:
• $22,029,647 for Lackawanna County.
• $9,976,419 for Luzerne County.
• $5,953,318 for Monroe, Pike and Wayne counties.
• $4,018,650 for Wyoming County.
• $517,292 for Wayne County.
Enabled by the federally funded Broadband Infrastructure Program, $200 million in competitive grants have been assigned for projects across the state aimed at regions lacking access to 25/3 Mbps internet service.
