Four years after the Connect America Fund II auction was completed, the FCC said yesterday that it has completed the process of reviewing long-form applications from all winning bidders. There were 195 authorized applicant/state combinations totaling $1.48 billion, as well…
Illinois Electric Cooperative (IEC) said it will use funding received through the Connect America Fund II (CAF II) auction to deploy fixed wireless in rural Pike County. IEC will use technology from Ericsson and Xtreme LTE for the deployment, which…
As stakeholders continue to debate whether the FCC should agree to release funding to some of the biggest winners in the recent Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction, one of those big winners continues to make progress on rural broadband…
Frontier and CenturyLink told the FCC they may not have met all deployment deadlines for 2020 for the Connect America Fund CAF II rural broadband program. If so, that would mark the second time the companies have missed CAF II…
Cable One officially announced its investment in fixed wireless internet service provider Nextlink today, formalizing news that Cable One CFO Steven Cochran previewed on the company’s second quarter earnings call earlier this month. The Cable One Nextlink deal gives Cable…
Alaska Communications broadband expansion is bringing high-speed internet to more than 16,000 rural Alaskans, the company announced today. The expansion was made possible, in part, by the Connect America Fund II, or CAF II. Alaska Communications hopes to double the…
Funding authorization in the Connect America Fund Phase CAF II auction moved close to completion with the award of $20,000,131 to two telecommunications firms that will expand broadband connectivity in Minnesota and Pennsylvania. It was the 14th wave of awards…
CenturyLink told the FCC last week that it expects to meet its Connect America Fund CAF II deployment deadlines. Using fixed wireless in some areas may be key to meeting that goal, according to a letter that CenturyLink sent to…
The FCC has authorized total funding of more than $7.4 million to service providers Redwire and Viasat Carrier Services to deploy broadband in rural areas of Oklahoma and Oregon, respectively. It is the thirteenth wave of authorizations from the Connect…
The FCC has authorized CAF II funding for six more network operators. The six operators will share $7.5 million, which will go toward the cost of making broadband available to 3,100 unserved locations in seven states. Recipients won the funding…
Cal.net, a broadband provider based in rural northern California, won $50 million in the Connect America Fund CAF II auction to provide service at speeds of 100 Mbps downstream and 20 Mbps upstream to 20,000 locations and plans to deploy…
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