by Pivot
Category: Colorado
Colorado Provides BEAD Round 2 Roundup
On Friday, the Colorado broadband office offered an update on Round 2 of their Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program grants applicant activity. The office closed the second application window through its Advance Colorado…
Two More States Accept BEAD Broadband Funding Applications, Another One Ready
Two more states — Michigan and Maine — are now accepting applications for funding in the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) rural broadband program. In addition, Colorado plans to begin accepting applications for the…
Intrepid Gets $290M Investment to Support Colorado, Minnesota Network Builds
Open access provider Intrepid Fiber Networks says its newly secured $290 million in debt financing will support ongoing deployments in Colorado and Minnesota. In all, more than 250,000 premises will eventually have access to Intrepid’s…
Two Entities Win Funding in Innovative Colorado Broadband Deployment Program
Two entities – Maverix Broadband and the Southern Colorado Economic Development District — have won over $750,000 for rural broadband buildouts through an innovative Colorado program. The program, known as the Location Modification Program, followed…
Colorado Recycles Broadband Funding, Awards $9.5M
The state of Colorado has awarded $9.5 million to four companies from the state’s Advance Colorado CPF Fund. The funding will cover some of the costs of high-speed broadband deployments in rural areas where service…
Visionary Broadband Bolsters Colorado Footprint with Aristata Acquisition
Regional service provider Visionary Broadband has acquired Aristata Communications, a service provider in Colorado. Aristata operates in Chaffee, Fremont, Custer, Huerfano and Lake counties in Colorado. The value of the acquisition and other details were…
Local Providers Win Big As Colorado Tentatively Awards $113.5M in Broadband Grants
The state of Colorado has tentatively awarded over $113.5 million in broadband grants to 13 applicants. Many of the awards will go to smaller local providers. Recipients will contribute more than $42 million in additional…
Colorado Broadband Director Has a Pragmatic Approach to BEAD
Colorado is a bit of an enigma. It’s home to numerous dense and high population areas including the Denver/Boulder metro area, Fort Collins to the north and Colorado Springs to the south. But as we…
Colorado Broadband Funding Program is Almost Four Times Oversubscribed
The state of Colorado received 112 applications from 37 entities requesting broadband funding through the Advance Colorado Broadband grant program. The total funding requested totals $643 million, which is almost four times more than the…
Google Fiber Chalks Up Another Colorado Market
Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) provider Google Fiber has been approved to build an all-fiber network in Wheat Ridge, CO. This approval follows Google Fiber’s Lakewood and Westminster projects in Colorado that were announced within the past year.…
Fixed Wireless M&A: Vistabeam Acquires Airbits, Digital Equity Also a Focus
Wireless and broadband provider Vistabeam last month acquired Airbits, which served the towns of Estes Park and Pole Hill, which are in Colorado’s Front Range area. Vistabeam also established a digital empowerment Center in Yuma,…
Open Access Network Operator Underline Claims Most Generous ACP Low-Income Broadband Offering
Open access network operator Underline is launching what Bob Founder and CEO Bob Thompson calls the “most generous” Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) offering in the U.S. Telecompetitor talked to Thompson about the low-income broadband service…
