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A friend has sent you a link to an article found on FlatheadBeacon.com. To read the full text of this article online, click here: /articles/article/montana_stimulus-funded_internet_expansion_assailed13937/ ARTICLE EXCERPT: HELENA – A plan to use federal stimulus money to expand Internet service in rural areas of Montana is being assailed by regulators and telephone companies who believe the effort will essentially simply duplicate high-tech infrastructure already in place. Gov. Brian Schweitzer has urged the federal government to fully fund a Bresnan Communications application for $70 million to build an 1,885-mile fiber-optic network that links Montana's seven Indian reservations.