The latest round of the USDA ReConnect rural broadband funding program received three times as many applications as there is funding for, said Andy Berke, administrator of USDA’s Rural Utilities Service, which is responsible for awarding the funding. Berke made…
October 27, 2022 – After a highly competitive process, Pioneer Connect of Philomath, OR has been awarded $24,952,007 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in the 3rd round of funding for the ReConnect program. This ReConnect 3 grant will…
The U.S. Agriculture Department is awarding $759 million in ReConnect program grants and loans for high-speed internet access projects across 24 states, Puerto Rico, Guam and Palau. Today’s investments include funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which provides $65 billion…
The USDA’s ReConnect program has awarded regional provider Uprise Fiber $27.1 million to build a 10 Gbps-capable FTTP network in Pershing County, Nevada. Three-year-old Uprise Fiber is based in Reno, NV and provides service in Washington, Oregon and California in…
The USDA announced $502 million in USDA ReConnect awards this morning and at a pre-briefing with media yesterday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the balance of awards in Round 3 of the program will be announced soon. In addition, Vilsack…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has begun accepting applications this week for $1.15 billion it is making available in Round 4 of the ReConnect Program funding. The funding pool consists of $150 million in loans, $700 million in grants and…
There seems to be a major cratering of broadband growth from large national companies like Charter and Comcast. They lost a whopping 21,000 broadband subscribers in just three months. There’s a new sneaker on the market, but you still have to BYOB. The ReConnect funding program is about to begin accepting applications for its fourth round and looking to award just over $3 billion. Speaking of money, Saudi Arabia seems to have a lot of it.
Rules for Round 4 of the USDA ReConnect rural broadband funding program are scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on Thursday. According to an “unpublished” version of the rules available on the Federal Register site, USDA will accept…
Feb 17, 2022 – Washington – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Under Secretary Xochitl Torres Small today announced the Department is extending to March 9, 2022, the application deadline for funding to expand access to high-speed internet for…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is now accepting applications for ReConnect funding to cover some of the costs of deploying broadband to unserved or underserved rural areas. This round of the ReConnect program has a budget of $1.15 billion,…
The USDA today said it will make $1.15 billion available in the next round of the ReConnect program to cover some of the costs of deploying broadband to rural areas where broadband is not available today. Areas in which 90%…
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