Colorado is a bit of an enigma. It’s home to numerous dense and high population areas including the Denver/Boulder metro area, Fort Collins to the north and Colorado Springs to the south. But as we learned in an interview with…
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Frontier, Charter Win Michigan Broadband Grants, But Smaller Companies Get the Lion’s Share
Charter, Frontier and seven smaller companies have been awarded a total of $203 million in grants in Michigan’s ROBIN rural broadband funding program. The winners will provide matching funds totaling $202 million for a total investment of $405 million. Several…
Capital Projects Fund Gets Rolling in Massachusetts
The Massachusetts Broadband Institute at Mass Tech (MBI) has launched the Broadband Infrastructure Gap Networks Grants Program, which is being funded at $145 million by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Capital Projects Fund (CPF). The program is being administered…
Oregon Gets $149M for Rural Broadband Deployments From CPF Fund
The U.S. Treasury has approved $149 million in Capital Projects Fund money to go toward the cost of rural broadband deployments in Oregon. A U.S. Treasury press release also references a figure of $156.7 million because $7.7 million of the…
360 Broadband: Texas and Oklahoma Wireless ISPs Merge
Two regional service providers – 360 Communications and 903 Broadband – merged last month to create a new company called 360 Broadband. The company will serve almost 16,000 customers in Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas. To reach its customers, the company…
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. The funding, which was made…
Treasury Awards $158M From Capital Projects Fund For Puerto Rico Broadband
The U.S. Treasury awarded $158 million in Capital Projects Fund (CPF) money for Puerto Rico broadband. The commonwealth will use $85.7 million for broadband infrastructure and $64.7 million for multi-purpose community technology centers. The remaining $8 million will be used…
Wisconsin Announces $42M for Rural Broadband
The state of Wisconsin has begun accepting applications for $42 million in rural broadband funding. The awards will be made through the state’s Broadband Infrastructure Program. Applications are due November 7 at 1:30 p.m. The funding for the program came…
Capital Projects Fund Awards $162.5M for Ohio Broadband
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Capital Project Fund (CPF) has approved $162.5 million in funding for Ohio. The funding is comprised of $77.5 million for a broadband infrastructure program and $85 million for multi-purpose community facilities. The programs represent…
Tennessee Broadband Director Talks BEAD and Why the State Targeted 3 Counties for CPF Dollars
The Tennessee Economic and Community Development Office (TNECD) will begin accepting applications for $60 million in Capital Projects Fund (CPF) dollars for rural broadband deployments next month. But not every county will be eligible for funding. Telecompetitor talked recently with…
Vermont Ups Broadband Grants, Putting Two CUDs Closer to Deployment Goals
The Vermont Community Broadband Board has approved amendments totaling approximately $20 million to increase broadband grant funding for two communications union districts (CUDs). CUDs are groups of towns in the state that work together to obtain broadband buildouts to unserved…
Oregon Director Must Tackle Numerous Challenges on the Route to Universal Broadband
Oregon faces a range of challenges on the route to making broadband available throughout the state, said Nick Batz, director of the Oregon Broadband Office, in an interview with Telecompetitor. “Our biggest challenge is the size of the state,” he…
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