LICT Corp. announced in its second quarter earnings report released Friday that it has completed its spinoff of Michigan Broadband on August 31. The spinoff company is now known as MachTen Inc. Each LICT shareholder received 150 shares of MachTen…
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RDOF Winner Highline Completes Fiber Deployment in Michigan’s Thumb
Competitive rural-focused fiber broadband provider Highline says that it has completed construction of an area known as “The Thumb” area of Michigan and now is offering broadband to more than 8,000 households in Sanilac, Tuscola, Lapeer and St. Clair counties….
Michigan Ambitions: 123NET Pursues Public-Private Partnerships, Middle Mile, Open Access
Michigan broadband provider 123NET is leveraging its myriad of existing relationships, state and federal government funding and nearly 30 years of telecom experience with the goal of making Michigan the “best connected state on the planet” by venturing much deeper…
LICT Gets Set to Spin Off Michigan Broadband
LICT Corp., a publicly-held company with several rural service provider subsidiaries, plans to spin off one of those subsidiaries into a separately traded entity. The subsidiary, currently known as Michigan Broadband, will be known as MachTen after the spinoff, which…
Surf Internet Acquires Michigan Provider’s Fiber Assets
Great Lakes regional fiber provider Surf Internet has acquired the fiber assets of MiSignal, which is based in Howell, Mich., the county seat of Livingston County. MiSignal was a fiber provider in eastern Michigan that offered symmetrical gigabit connectivity to…
Charter, Frontier, Brightspeed, AT&T, Seven Others on Tap for $238M in Michigan Broadband Awards
Michigan released award recommendations for broadband deployment grants totaling $238 million today. Among the tentative winners are Charter, Frontier, Brightspeed, AT&T and seven others, including local companies. The biggest winner, measured by number of awards, was Charter, which is on…
Two Michigan Broadband Providers Seek to Merge
Two Michigan broadband providers — Peninsula Fiber and Winn Telephone Company — are seeking to merge. Local media outlets reported the plans in January. Upper Michigan Source, the website of Negaunee-based NBC affiliate TV 6, said that the combined company…
Highline Joins the Multi-gigabit Club
Competitive broadband provider Highline has joined the multi-gigabit club. The company said it is providing symmetrical 2 Gbps service to 32,000 residences in the Escanaba area of the Upper Peninsula and in the Thumb areas of Michigan. Highline began providing…
Michigan Operators Seek $1.3B in Broadband Funding: $231M Available
Over 150 network operators applied for funding in a broadband program operated by the state of Michigan. The operators requested $1.3 billion in funding through the program, which has a budget of $231 million. Applications were due yesterday in the…
State Broadband Bonanza: More Funding Announced; Windows Set to Open, Close
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…
$63M in ReConnect Funding Goes to Providers in Four States
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is investing $63 million in ReConnect funding to bring broadband to rural areas of Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Mississippi. The four projects all are in the form of grants and feature fiber-to-the-premises networks: The ReConnect…
12 More States Get Digital Equity, BEAD Planning Grants from NTIA
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has continued the fast pace of announcements of planning grants for the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) and Digital Equity programs. The NTIA, which is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce,…
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