The final guidelines for the $20 million Missouri Cell Tower Grant Program have been released by the state’s Department of Economic Development (DED). The state will begin accepting applications in the funding program on May 31 and eligible entities have…
The Missouri Department of Economic Development has awarded Charter Communications nearly $12 million in grants for three broadband deployment projects in Missouri. A total of $261 million was awarded, with the balance going to 11 smaller providers. The smaller providers…
Ozark Fiber has acquired the internet and voice business for residential and small-to-medium-sized businesses from Missouri Telecom in Monett, MO and surrounding areas for an undisclosed price. Ozark Fiber started building its high-speed fiber-optic network in Monett three months ago,…
Regional data center and network operator Bluebird Network intends to acquire the middle mile fiber network assets of Missouri Telecom Inc. (MTI). The two companies have signed an asset purchase agreement for the deal, which is expected to close by…
In the latest in a series of announcements, Brightspeed says that it aims to bring fiber service to 310,000 residential and business addresses in Missouri during the next few years. The first 130,000 of those passings will be completed by…
A trial of fixed wireless technology in the small rural Missouri town of Turney aims to use machine learning to improve service. An intelligent router and a machine learning algorithm will be used to predict which household needs more bandwidth…
Fast growing regional operator MetroNet said today that it will build an all-fiber gigabit network in the city of O’Fallon, its first Missouri market. Construction is slated to begin next year, with customers coming online as neighborhoods are completed. The…
Bluebird Network has lit a 300-mile, 400 Gbps circuit connecting St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri. The network includes connections to the Missouri cities of Warrensburg, Sedalia and Columbia. The new infrastructure, which will add 9,000 buildings to Bluebird’s network,…
Circle Fiber is building a FTTP network supporting 10 gigabit speeds to Cape Girardeau County, Missouri using funding from the USDA ReConnect program. Circle Fiber, which is an operating unit of 30-year-old Big River Communications of Missouri, will eventually pass…
Regional broadband provider i3 Broadband is investing more than $100 million in a multiyear project that aims to bring broadband at speeds up to 10 Gbps to several cities in St. Charles County, MO. The communities are St. Charles, St….
The United States Department of Agriculture granted Big River Broadband $2.9 million to provide broadband service to unserved or underserved areas of Missouri. The funding is part of $100 million in USDA ReConnect CARES funding adopted in the CARES Act…
The latest example of a rural electric cooperative working with a broadband service provider to bring broadband to unserved rural areas comes from Wisper ISP and Sho-Me Technologies, the broadband subsidiary of Sho-Me Power Electric Cooperative. Wisper ISP will use…
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