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…
DALLAS, June 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — DZS (Nasdaq: DZSI), a global leader of access, optical and cloud-controlled software defined solutions, and its strategic partner Irby Utilities (Irby) today announced deployment milestones reached by two of their rural electric cooperative broadband customers. Connect2First, a subsidiary…
The U.S. Treasury has approved the state of Mississippi to receive $151.5 million from the Capital Projects Fund (CPF) for broadband deployments. The funding represents 93% of the state’s entire CPF allotment. The funding will go toward the state’s Broadband…
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…
The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has awarded a total of more than $21.9 million in planning grants to four states under the Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) and the Digital Equity Act programs. The…
The 4-County Electric Power Association electrical cooperative in east central Mississippi is moving beyond the pilot phase of its network upgrade, according to DZS Inc., one of the partners on the project. During the next few years, 4-County plans to…
DE Lightspeed, the broadband subsidiary of the Delta Electric Power Association, has successfully leveraged government funding for the fiber broadband services that the company has deployed in rural Mississippi. DE Lightspeed was created after Mississippi gave electric cooperatives the green…
C Spire today announced a $1 billion network expansion that will include high-speed fixed and 5G mobile networks in Mississippi and Alabama. Approximately half of the investment will go to all-fiber gigabit networks in Alabama; the rest will go toward…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ReConnect Program has awarded a grant of $4.6 million to The Bay Springs Telephone Company, an affiliate of TEC, for deployment of a FTTP network in rural Mississippi. The network will serve 5,139 people, 69…
Fifteen Mississippi rural electric cooperatives have won a combined total of $65 million in rural broadband funding through the CARES Act passed earlier this year in response to the COVID-19 crisis. The money came indirectly through the state, which carved…
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue took part today in a virtual press conference via videoconference to announce the latest winner of USDA ReConnect CARES Act funding for rural broadband. The $16 million grant went to Tallahatchie Valley Electric Power Association, which…
C Spire, Entergy Mississippi and the Mississippi Public Service Commission this week held a ceremony at the Ross Barnett Reservoir commemorating the completion of a project that will bring advanced broadband services to rural Mississippians. The $11 million project took…
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