Verizon won broadband funding from two Pennsylvania counties recently. In an interview with Telecompetitor, Verizon Vice President of Business Operations for Wireline Networks Doug Sullivan offered details about the wins, which are for areas where the company has begun deploying…
Eight states are addressing homes underserved by broadband through programs that fund some of the costs of line extensions, according to a recent Pew Charitable Trusts post. Each state’s program is a bit different from the others. Most of the…
How states are using money allotted to them through the federal Capital Projects Fund (CPF) varies considerably from one state to the next, according to Pew Charitable Trusts, which has been keeping tabs on state broadband funding programs. Each state…
The states of Colorado and Pennsylvania have released details about upcoming broadband funding programs. Colorado’s Advance Colorado Broadband grant program plans to award $162 million and Pennsylvania’s Broadband Infrastructure Program has a budget of $200 million. Both programs are funded…
Pennsylvania’s Statewide Broadband Plan, which was unanimously approved by the Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority on November 17, aims to meet the immediate and long-term needs of people who live in the state. The Authority will control more than $100 million…
Brightspeed says that it will pass more than 190,000 addresses with fiber in Pennsylvania, with the first phase reaching 40,000 addresses by the end of next year. That phase of the project will bring service to Cumberland, Lancaster and York…
Shenandoah Telecommunications Co. (Shentel) said it will expand its Glo Fiber broadband network into Lancaster Township, Mountville Borough, East Hempfield Township, West Lampeter Township and Manheim Township, PA. The communities are in Lancaster county. Construction will begin this month, starting…
Comcast said that its expansion to 1,700 homes and businesses in rural Pennsylvania is complete. The project delivers residential and business speeds of up to 1.2 Gbps and 100 Gbps, respectively. The areas are Turbotville Borough and the townships of…
Kinetic by Windstream has announced two projects in a public/private partnership with Greene County, Pennsylvania funded, in part, through the CARES Act. The Windstream CARES projects have brought gigabit speeds to 7,300 homes in six communities. The consumers – most…
The USDA has announced three more awards in the second round of its ReConnect Program. The awards, which total a bit more than $7 million, bring the announced investment during the week of October 11 to more than $173 million….
The FCC is ready to authorize Connect America Fund CAF II funding for five more companies for rural broadband deployments in six states, including Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Missouri, Colorado, Nebraska and Arizona. The commission says it is ready to authorize CAF…
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