The Divide: ConnectMaine's Peggy Schaffer on the 'street-by-street battle' for broadband

Published: April 22, 2021, 2 p.m.

On this episode, we hear from Peggy Schaffer, executive director for the ConnectMaine Authority.\n\nConnectMaine was established in 2006. Since then, Shaffer says it has spent approximately $12 million in grant funding to expand broadband services to people.\n\nShe and I discuss the state of broadband in the state of Maine and what her office has been able to accomplish; as well as what she hopes to see from federal broadband legislation and why she believes we need to stop giving money to the FCC.