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 Telecompetitor that Consolidated was the…
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,…
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 administered by the U.S. Department…
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 (CPF). The funding will go…
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 arise in communities where broadband…
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 $1.52 million grant. In 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 public private partnerships that have…
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 $2 million loan to Granite…
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. There will be no increases…
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