Cox Communications was the biggest winner in Florida broadband funding announced in July and will get over $80 million for 11 projects, Telecompetitor has learned. Fellow cable provider Comcast was the second biggest winner and will take home over $60…
A Comcast spokesperson told Telecompetitor today that the company was awarded $63 million in new funding through the Florida Broadband Infrastructure Program, and TDS Telecom issued a press release stating that it was awarded more than $1.8 million in the…
The state of Florida has awarded $247 million for broadband deployments, according to a press release from Florida governor Ron Desantis. The press release shows the amount of funding awarded by county but doesn’t indicate which providers will receive the…
Charter Communications was the biggest winner in the latest round of funding awards made through the Florida Broadband Opportunity Program. The company is slated to receive approximately $14.3 million, which is almost a quarter of the $60 million awarded. Charter…
How states are using money allotted to them through the federal Capital Projects Fund (CPF) varies considerably from one state to the next, according to Pew Charitable Trusts, which has been keeping tabs on state broadband funding programs. Each state…
The state of Florida has begun accepting applications for $133 million in broadband funding through its Broadband Opportunity Program. The deadline for applications is June 23 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time. The funding will be used to deploy broadband to…
The state of Florida has awarded $22 million in funding to three providers for deployments in areas where high-speed broadband is not available today. The biggest winner is Conexon Connect, which will take home over $13.3 million. Suwanee Valley Electric…
Two states – Florida and Texas — recently announced new broadband infrastructure funding opportunities. A funding program announced last month for a third state—Georgia — will begin accepting applications soon. And two other states extended deadlines for application windows that…
The state of Florida has awarded $144 million in broadband grants through its Broadband Opportunity Program. A large portion of that funding – over $90 million – will go to the nation’s three largest cable companies Comcast, Charter and Cox….
The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has awarded a total of more than $21.9 million in planning grants to four states under the Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) and the Digital Equity Act programs. The…
LiveOak Fiber, a new fiber-based service provider, has gotten an initial investment of $150 million from InfraRed Capital Partners and announced projects in Glynn County, GA and Okaloosa County, FL. InfraRed and LiveOak intend to provide 10 Gbps services to…
Verizon said today that it had committed an additional $149 million in local capital spending in Florida to meet the increasing demand from a growing customer base in the Sunshine State. More than 250,00 Verizon customers have moved to the…
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