The Illinois subgrantee BEAD application and selection process will consist of up to three waves, beginning January 23.
Illinois will use the $23,732,912 of NTIA Capacity Grant funds to create a dashboard to measure progress toward digital equity.
Frontier plans to connect more than 700 homes and businesses to fiber broadband service in rural Illinois, through a Connect Illinois grant.
The biggest winners in this round of Illinois broadband funding were Jo-Carroll Energy Co-op and ProTek Communications.
The Illinois broadband funding comes through the Connect Illinois program, which is accepting applications on a rolling basis.
Matt Schmit, Illinois broadband director, told us about his experiences shaping the widely admired Minnesota Border-to-Border
The Illinois Soybean Association and the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society are spearheading Broadband Breakthrough, which aims to
Two telecom cooperatives are slated to receive rural broadband ReConnect funding. USDA also awarded grants to
Bluebird Network was created through the merger of a Missouri statewide network and another company. After a cash infusion from
Broadband Equity Access and Deployment or BEAD planning grants are to enable states to put together plans for how they will award
T-Mobile 5G Home Internet fixed wireless service will be available to 6 million homes in Illinois, Michigan and
According to a Department of Justice AT&T Illinois investigation, the company paid $22,500 to a friend of former Illinois Speaker of the
Brightspeed Illinois plans call for the company to make fiber broadband service available to 14,000 addresses by the end of next year and
Illinois Electric Cooperative fixed wireless plans include private wireless and providing 100/20 Mbps service using the CBRS band
The State of Illinois will contribute $7 million toward a $22 million Shawnee Communications broadband expansion that will bring
A USDA ReConnect Illinois award went to Adams TelSystems for $1.6 million. In Oregon, an award went to Casco Communications for
A Minnesota USDA ReConnect award went to Consolidated Telephone company. The $7.4 million award came in the form of a grant. Other awardees
Tennesee USDA ReConnect awards went to four companies, with some receiving grants and some receiving a combination of grants and loans. In Georgia,
When completed, the Bluebird Illinois Network Alliance deal will bring Bluebird’s route miles to 9,300. This isn’t the first time Bluebird has acted as a fiber network consolidator. The company was . . .