{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6112c6ffaae63d001577f9d8/6112c70cdd5fed00129fbbd2?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Divide: ConnectMaine's Peggy Schaffer on the 'street-by-street battle' for broadband","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6112c6ffaae63d001577f9d8/6112c70cdd5fed00129fbbd2.jpg?height=200","description":"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.","author_name":"Light Reading"}