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Category: Oklahoma
Oklahoma Fiber-Only BEAD Pool Application Window Opens
Oklahoma’s application window for its Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program Pool 1 funding, which is exclusively for fiber, opened yesterday and extends until May 26. In a funding alert, NRTC shared information about…
Oklahoma Board Approves Over $158M in Grants for Broadband Projects
Over $158 million in broadband expansion projects were approved Thursday by the Oklahoma Broadband Governing Board. The 50 awarded projects are funded by the American Rescue Plan Act Capital Project Funds. The Oklahoma Broadband Office…
AT&T, Cox, 29 Smaller Providers Slated to Share $374M In Oklahoma Broadband Funding
The state of Oklahoma has tentatively announced $374 million in broadband funding awards to AT&T, Cox and 29 smaller providers. Funding came through the federal ARPA State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund. Awardees will contribute…
The Latest State With an Oversubscribed Broadband Funding Program is . . .
Network operators in Oklahoma requested a total of $5.1 billion in funding in a state broadband program to cover some of the costs of deploying service in rural areas lacking high-speed service. But with a…
Treasury Sends $167.7M to Oklahoma in Capital Projects Fund Program
The U.S. Treasury has awarded Oklahoma $167.7 million in the $10 billion Capital Projects Fund (CPF) program. The funding will serve about 13% of locations in the state that currently lack high speed Internet access.…
Meet Oklahoma’s New Broadband Director Mike Sanders
When Mike Sanders started his job as executive director for the Oklahoma Broadband Office about two months ago, the state’s broadband office had four employees. When Telecompetitor talked to Sanders at the end of June,…
Bluepeak Gains Another Oklahoma Fiber Franchise
Bluepeak has reached a franchise agreement with the city of Norman, Okla., to build a high-speed fiber network, the carrier announced today. The nearly $55 million expansion effort, the largest the company has made outside…
Big RDOF Winner Resound Receives Final Authorization for Gigabit/FWA Plans
Resound Networks has received final authorization from the FCC for winning bids in seven states in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) program. The company was the winning bidder for over $300 million in funding…
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…
Dobson Fiber Partners with Oklahoma Gas and Electric on Fiber Build
Dobson Fiber and Oklahoma Gas and Electric (OG&E) have entered into an agreement to build about 350 miles of new fiber and use 600 miles of Dobson’s existing network to upgrade the utility’s communications network.…
USDA ReConnect Grants Brings $29M in Fiber Broadband Funding to Oklahoma
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has made two more grants under the portion of the ReConnect Pilot Program funded by the CARES Act. Pioneer Telephone Cooperative has been approved for a $24.2 million grant to…
$7.4 M in CAF II Authorizations Made for Oklahoma, Oregon
The FCC has authorized total funding of more than $7.4 million to service providers Redwire and Viasat Carrier Services to deploy broadband in rural areas of Oklahoma and Oregon, respectively. It is the thirteenth wave…