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 Act (ARPA) and investment from…
Conexon Connect has started constructing a network in rural East Carroll Parish, Louisiana. Although Conexon is best known for working with rural electric membership co-ops (REMCs) on broadband deployments, there is no REMC involved in the East Carroll Parish project….
The state of Louisiana has the distinction of being awarded the first planning grant in the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program, which has a budget of $42.5 billion for rural broadband deployments. The state also was awarded funding…
Louisiana will be distributing $130 million in funds for broadband deployments in the state, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced yesterday. The funding will come from the state’s Granting Unserved Municipalities Broadband Opportunities (GUMBO) program, which received funding through the American…
AT&T and Louisiana are working to finalize a $19 million public private partnership to bring a fiber broadband to 9,800 addresses in 13 parishes. The project will go forward when the state and carrier sign a contract. The network would…
In a continuation of its stream of announcements, Brightspeed says that it will pass 28,000 addresses in Louisiana with its fiber infrastructure during the next several years, with half of them completed by the end of next year. The initial…
More than 200,000 homes and businesses in Louisiana, New Hampshire, Virginia and West Virginia will gain broadband connectivity with the help of funding from the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s new Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund (CPF). The funding will go…
Vexus Fiber said today that it will build a symmetrical gigabit FTTH network in Lake Charles, Sulphur and Westlake, Louisiana. The projects will provide access to more than 40,000 homes and businesses in the communities. Vexus says it will fully…
LUS Fiber – Lafayette, Louisiana’s fiber system, today received a $3.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) to develop and build broadband infrastructure in rural southwest Louisiana, in conjunction with the Acadiana Planning Commission…
The USDA ReConnect program is investing $12.2 million to bring broadband to unserved and underserved areas of Louisiana. The Louisiana USDA ReConnect award goes to The Star Telephone Company. The investment will be evenly split between a grant and a…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is investing $76.5 million in USDA ReConnect Missouri and Louisiana rural broadband projects . In Louisiana, The Star Telephone Company will use $7.7 million in grant money and the same amount in a ReConnect loan…
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