Approximately $12 billion in broadband funding has been awarded or budgeted to date through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), according to a report released today from the U.S. Department of the Treasury to commemorate ARPA’s second anniversary. The ARPA…
Alabama legislators have proposed to allocate $260 million in funding for broadband deployments. The money would come from $1.1 billion recently awarded to the state through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). According to an Associated Press report, the bill…
June 14, 2022 — PHILOMATH, Ore. & MILPITAS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Alyrica Networks, a provider of broadband services over fiber and fixed wireless in Oregon, today announced with Tarana its winning bid to dramatically improve broadband service speeds and availability in Polk…
Regional operator Ritter Communications has been awarded eight grants totaling about $44 million to provide all-fiber broadband networks in Arkansas. The grants were awarded through the Arkansas Rural Connect (ARC) program, which is funded through the American Rescue Plan Act…
February 03, 2022 — THOMASTON, Ga.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Upson County Board of Commissioners and Highline are pleased to announce that $4,430,000.00 has been awarded toward providing more reliable access to broadband in Upson County. Governor Kemp, along with members of the…
Windstream has won funding for 18 projects to deploy high-speed broadband in 18 Georgia counties. The Georgia ARPA broadband projects will be funded, in part, through money allotted to counties in the state in the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)….
The U.S. Treasury has released final rules for the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund created in the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). The fund has a budget of $350 billion for disbursement to state and local governments, which…
The City of Amarillo, Texas plans to use American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding to build a fixed wireless network targeting low-income households. We talked to Rich Gagnon, the city’s managing director and chief information officer about the fixed wireless…
The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) makes funding available to individual states that can be used for a variety of purposes, including broadband, at each state’s discretion. A new report from the Pew Charitable Trust highlights several states that are…
The funding available for broadband deployment in the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) could be what some small towns need to make fiber construction projects feasible that previously were not feasible, as news this week from Minnesota broadband provider Arvig…
TDS Telecom has been awarded more than $2 million for two broadband projects in Wisconsin. The broadband funding was made available to the state through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). The ARPA broadband funding awards were made by the…
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