by Pivot
Category: Kansas
Kansas Investing $10.7M for Internet Access, Public Wi-Fi
Applications will open next week in Kansas’ $10.7 million Advancing Digital Opportunities to Promote Technology (ADOPT) program. The ADOPT program focuses on equipment distribution and public Wi-Fi throughout Kansas. The equipment element has a maximum…
Applications to Open Soon for $451.7M Kansas BEAD Program Broadband Funds
With a stated goal to make Kansas a top 10 state for broadband by 2030, Kansas Governor Laura Kelly this week announced that the Kansas Office of Broadband Development (KOBD) will open the application process…
Brightspeed, Midco, Local Providers Will Share $10M in Kansas Broadband Funding
Midco and local provider KwiKom were the big winners in the latest round of Kansas broadband funding announced Friday. KwiKom was awarded two grants totaling $1.9 million and Midco was awarded two grants totaling almost…
Kansas Awards Funding for Public Wi-Fi
Seven organizations are receiving a total of $3.9 million from the state of Kansas for public Wi-Fi and for devices such as PCs and laptops. The funding came through the Advancing Digital Opportunities to Promote…
More States Gain Full Approval of BEAD Proposals: $2 Billion in Funding Coming Their Way
Initial Proposals, including both Volumes 1 and 2, in the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program from Kansas, Nevada and West Virginia have been approved, according to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).…
Kansas Gets Set to Award $10M for Broadband
The state of Kansas is making $10 million in funding available to cover some of the costs of deploying broadband in unserved areas of Kansas. The funding awards will be made through the state’s Broadband…
Kansas Awards More Funding for Fiber Broadband: Local Providers Again Are the Big Winners
Just days after the state of Kansas awarded $5 million for rural broadband builds, primarily to local providers, the state has awarded over $22.6 million more in funding for such builds. The new funding also…
Internet Exchange Points Move Beyond Big Metros: $5M Grant Supports One in Wichita
The state of Kansas has awarded a $5 million grant to nonprofit Connected Nation to construct a carrier-neutral internet exchange point (IXP) adjacent to Wichita State University’s Innovation Campus. Construction will be done through Connected…
Local Providers Win Big in Kansas Broadband Funding Round, Midco Also Wins
Local providers won the vast majority of funding in the latest round of rural broadband funding in Kansas. Midco, which is based in South Dakota and operates in several states, also won an award. A…
Kansas Provider Kwikom Gets Going on Fiber Deployment, Partially Grant-Funded
Kwikom, a broadband provider based in Kansas that also serves some markets in Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma, has begun work on fiber deployments in several Kansas markets. Deployments in some of these markets were funded,…
Kansas Broadband Director: BEAD Funds Will Be Enough If 25% Goes to FWA
The $451 million that Kansas will receive in the BEAD rural broadband funding program will be sufficient to make service available to everyone in the state if 25% of it goes to fixed wireless access…
AT&T: We’ve Won Broadband Funding for 130K Locations in Past Year
AT&T says that it has leveraged public-private partnerships to bring its broadband fiber network to more than 130,000 locations during the past year. The funding for these projects includes funding from the American Rescue Plan…
