One day after Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam pitched lawmakers on the need for increased access to broadband internet service in his State of the State address, the Knoxville Republican appeared in front of one of the organizations which would help implement the proposal.
Speaking to the Tennessee Electric Cooperative Association, Haslam reiterated his call for expanding access to high-speed internet in the rural areas the organization represents.
"The issue has obviously been how do we take broadband to those places that private providers, that commercial providers, have said that they they've done their math, they've said that doesn't work for us," he told the group at a legislative breakfast inside the DoubleTree Hotel in downtown Nashville. "We can't just ignore those folks."
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