Working together previously is what led Bay Country Communications, a cable/voice/ISP provider, and Choptank Electric Cooperative and its subsidiary Choptank Fiber LLC, to take things to the next level, said Tim McGaha, Vice President of Technical Services, Choptank Electric and…
Verizon will make its Fios fiber broadband service available to almost 4,000 previously unserved Maryland homes and businesses in a deployment funded, in part, through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). As Telecompetitor previously reported, the state of Maryland awarded…
Comcast was awarded approximately $14.4 million, Verizon was awarded approximately $11 million and Shentel was awarded approximately $9.3 million in broadband funding from the state of Maryland this week. But they weren’t the biggest winners announced. Quantum Telecommunications Inc., a…
Both Maryland senators and seven of state’s eight members of Congress sent a letter to FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel last week asking for more time to file challenges to the current version of the commission’s National Broadband Map. According to…
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has announced another set of planning grants for its Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) and Digital Equity programs. BEAD is a $42.45 billion program and Digital Equity is a $2.75 billion program….
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has announced that four states have been approved to receive $357 million for broadband project through the American Rescue Plan’s Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund (CPF). The four states are Kansas, Maine, Maryland and Minnesota….
Maryland has joined other states in offering millions in broadband grants. MD Gov. Larry Hogan announced today that his state’s plan will include more than $127.6 million in broadband grants, which will help provide broadband service to an additional 15,000…
Regional cable MSO Breezeline, formerly Atlantic Broadband, has entered into two public-private partnerships in Maryland. The larger of the two partnerships will extend broadband to 524 homes and businesses in Cecil, St. Mary’s and Queen Anne’s counties. Breezeline is contributing…
Shentel Glo Fiber, the multi-gigabit FTTH broadband service of Shenandoah Telecommunications, will begin serving Frederick, MD in January. The all-fiber network – the company’s first in Maryland — eventually will offer service to about 20,000 residences and businesses. “This expansion…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved a ReConnect CARES Act grant of $13.1 million to Easton Utilities Commission in Maryland for the deployment of an FTTP network. The grant was part of the second phase of the ReConnect Pilot…
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