New York has made several announcements that will collectively provide $15.5 million for mobile service, broadband infrastructure, and other funding opportunities in the state.
The biggest award is for more than $10 million under the ConnectALL Municipal Infrastructure Program and the Affordable Housing Connectivity Program. The initiatives will be in greater Binghamton (Affordable Housing Connectivity Program; $320,379) and in Allegany County (Municipal Infrastructure Program; $10,034,234).
In all, they will serve 810 New York households in the two locations and build 85 miles of new fiber broadband infrastructure.
The state also announced that the ConnectALL program is awarding $5.2 million to four projects under its Connectivity Innovation Program. The goal is to expand mobile service, close rural and urban coverage gaps, and create replicable models for future deployments, according to the press release.
They projects are in Otsego ($843,357), Schenectady ($1,627,430), Warren ($1,996,408), and Nassau ($731,192) counties.
ConnectALL also will launch three requests for applications (RFAs). Two are under the Connectivity Innovation Program and one under the Regional and Local Assistance Program.
The three RFAs are the Fiber Optic Deployment Solutions RFA ($5 million); Business Model RFA ($5 million), and the Regional and Local Assistance Program Round 2 RFA (as much as $5 million).
“Reliable mobile service is vital to New York’s economy and critical to driving innovation, jobs and opportunity statewide,” New York Governor Hochul said about the broadband and mobile grants and RFAs. “These new awards and innovative RFAs, combined with our groundbreaking wireless drive testing, will ensure every New Yorker — no matter where they live — has access to the connectivity they need to learn, work and thrive.”
The progress began in the spring. In late March, the state launched the fourth phase of the New York Municipal Infrastructure Program (MIP) Request for Applications. It makes almost $50 million available to support broadband infrastructure projects across New York.
In July, the state rereleased the ConnectALL Digital Equity Program Capacity Grant Request for Applications (RFA) which the Trump administration had terminated the program in May. Applications were due on August 25.
Additional information about New York broadband, including state funding resources, awards made, BEAD news, state-specific coverage, and more can be found on the Telecompetitor Broadband Nation webpage for the state.
