The South Dakota’s Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED), in its final round of funding in the ConnectSD program, will award as much as $27 million to support high-speed broadband in rural areas of the state. Applications will be accepted…
Nine providers will share $32.5 million in broadband funding from the state of South Dakota awarded yesterday. The awards were made through the state’s ConnectSD grant program. The three biggest winners were all local telecom providers. Venture Vision, also known…
The text of a Senate bill that aims to improve the accuracy of federal broadband maps was made public yesterday. The bill, known as the Accurate Map for Broadband Investment Act of 2023, calls for a reallocation process for the…
The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has awarded a total of more than $21.9 million in planning grants to four states under the Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) and the Digital Equity Act programs. The…
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 Golden West Telecommunications Cooperative is getting a $1.7 million grant to provide services in South Dakota and Wyoming in the second round of funding in the USDA ReConnect program. The grant will enable the firm to deploy a FTTN…
The U.S. Department of Agrculture has awarded $3.3 million to provide a fixed broadband network to Pennington and Lawrence counties in South Dakota. The USDA ReConnect grant went to SDN Communications. The footprint of the grant covers 13 square miles…
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