At last count, New Hampshire had about 31,000 unserved and underserved locations eligible for the $42.5 billion BEAD rural broadband funding program. Matthew Conserva, New Hampshire’s broadband program manager, expects that number to drop considerably…
Consolidated Communications has won over $200 million in broadband funding, the company’s vice president of market development, Sarah Davis, told Telecompetitor in an interview. That’s a substantial jump from a year ago, when the company…
Consolidated Communications’ latest public-private broadband partnership news is a bit different from some of the other public-private partnerships we’ve seen since federal legislators began making funding available for broadband buildouts during the COVID pandemic. The…
Consolidated Communications was awarded $40 million in funding from the New Hampshire Office of Broadband Initiatives to go toward the cost of broadband buildouts in the state. Matt Conserva,Broadband Program Manager for the agency, told…
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. Treasury has approved a Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund (CPF) award of $66 million to New Hampshire for rural broadband projects. The CPF was established by the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) and is…
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…
Consolidated Communications said will be building fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) networks capable of supporting gigabit speeds in Greenfield, Jaffrey, Marlow, Roxbury and Peterborough, New Hampshire, as residents of those communities recently approved the construction. Public/private partnerships typically…
CARES Act broadband funding helped enable the town of Bristol, New Hampshire to deploy 24 miles of fiber to pass 400 Bristol residences and connect to Plymouth State University. The CARES Act funding was a…
Consolidated Communications has broken ground on an FTTP network that it says will reach every home and business in Dublin, Harrisville, Rindge, Walpole and Westmoreland, New Hampshire. The projects are the latest examples of Consolidated…
USDA ReConnect awards made today in Kansas, Oklahoma and New Hampshire total $73 million in the program aimed at creating or enhancing broadband capabilities in rural areas. In New Hampshire, the program is providing a…
Consolidated Communications has joined forces with the town of Chesterfield, N.H. for a public-private broadband network project. The project will bring a high-speed, fiber-to-the-premises Internet network directly to all homes and businesses in the municipality.…