Charter hopes to complete its RDOF-funded rural broadband deployment ahead of time, said Chris Winfrey, Charter president and CEO, on today’s fourth quarter earnings call. The take rate in those areas is ahead of expectations, he said. Charter made broadband…
The FCC is encouraging state and local governments and broadband providers to file bulk challenges to the commission’s broadband serviceable location database by March 15. Bulk challenges received by that date are most likely to be addressed in time to…
AT&T expects to see BEAD funding flow from the federal government to the states and expects the “more aggressive” states to award some of that funding to broadband projects before year-end, said AT&T CEO John Stankey on the company’s fourth…
Engineering firm Dewberry, in collaboration with mapping company Ecopia AI, Rasmuson Foundation and the State of Alaska, is working on a broadband map based on what Ecopia AI is calling “an accurate, up-to-date and complete map of every building, in…
Today is the date set by NTIA for challenges to be made to the National Broadband Map, which will be used to determine how much money goes to each state in the $42.5 billion BEAD rural broadband funding program. But,…
All states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia now have received Digital Equity and Broadband Equity Access and Deployment, or BEAD, planning funds, according to NTIA. The news is based on three more states – Massachusetts, Kansas and New…
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 National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has announced another set of planning grants for its Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) and Digital Equity programs. BEAD is a $42.45 billion program and Digital Equity is a $2.75 billion program….
The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced that 11 states and Washington, D.C., received their first planning funds through the Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) and the Digital Equity Act programs. The BEAD program has…
The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is awarding Hawaii $5,570,883.00 in broadband planning grants. The grants include $5 million for the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program and nearly $571,000 for the digital equity program….
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…
Seven U.S. senators sent a letter to Alan Davidson, head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, today urging NTIA to revise its definition of reliable broadband for the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program. It’s a hot issue…
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