DETCOG waiting anxiously for answers on grant funding to bring broadband internet to Deep East Texas DETCOG waiting anxiously for answers on grant funding to bring broadband internet to Deep East Texas By Donna McCollum | March 9, 2021 at 12:37 PM CST - Updated March 9 at 8:11 PM NACOGDOCHES, Texas (KTRE) - Could there be an answer on broadband funding for Deep East Texas by the end of the week? Possibly. Lonnie Hunt, the executive director for the Deep East Texas Council of Governments (DETCOG), said in today’s Nacogdoches County Chamber of Commerce Stakeholders conference call that an answer on one grant application may be coming very soon. The other may take a couple of months.