Anyone living in modern-day 2025 realizes that access to highspeed internet is vital to everyday life – from online learning to virtual healthcare access to working from home. And, Governor Lee and our legislature have made drastic improvements to expand broadband access. Since the start of 2020, Tennessee has significantly closed the gap between Tennesseans with access to high-speed internet and those without. Today, 95 percent of Tennesseans have access to wired or fixed wireless broadband. That means nearly everyone in our state has the option of high-speed internet in their home or business, except for a remote few in mostly rural areas.
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