In January 2022, The Atlantic Telephone Membership Cooperative (ATMC) will begin a multi-year, $100 million fiber broadband project that will replace copper and coaxial cable in Brunswick County, North Carolina with fiber. All cooperative members eventually will have access to…
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Gigabit speed internet service will soon be available in Northeastern Michigan, thanks to an ambitious community broadband expansion effort by Presque Isle Electric & Gas Co-op (PIE&G). The cooperative intends to launch…
SEDALIA, COLO. Sept. 8, 2021 Comcast Business today announced that CORE Electric Cooperative — a nonprofit electric distribution cooperative that serves more than 170,000 customers along Colorado’s Front Range region — has selected Comcast Business to provide two 1 Gig…
Palmetto Electric Cooperative is partnering with Walterboro, S.C.,-based Palmetto Rural Telephone Cooperative (PRTC) for PalmettoLink, which aims to bring high-speed internet to rural residents in the South Carolina counties of Allendale, Hampton and Jasper. “We are very excited to partner…
Regional broadband provider Comporium and the York Electric Cooperative (YEC) last week connected the first of 5,000 unserved people they will bring service to in western York and parts of Cherokee counties, S.C. The two organizations formed a partnership to…
KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Conexon Connect, the internet service provider created and managed by rural fiber-optic network design and construction management leader Conexon, has been selected by south central Georgia’s Irwin EMC to provide access to…
Several electric cooperatives and several counties in Virginia plan to work together to bring broadband to underserved rural areas of the state. Dominion Energy Virginia; Rappahannock Electric Cooperative; Firefly Fiber Broadband, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Central Virginia Electric Cooperative and…
June 24, 2021 — SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) today announced that Petit Jean Electric Cooperative (Petit Jean) has selected the complete suite of Calix solutions and cloud-based services to cost-effectively build and deploy a world-class fiber-to-the-home (FTTH)…
KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Conexon Connect, the internet service provider created and managed by rural fiber-optic network design and construction management leader Conexon, has been selected by Mountain View Electric Association (MVEA) to provide access to…
DE Lightspeed, the broadband subsidiary of the Delta Electric Power Association, has successfully leveraged government funding for the fiber broadband services that the company has deployed in rural Mississippi. DE Lightspeed was created after Mississippi gave electric cooperatives the green…
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, or perhaps because of it, a considerable number of U.S. states ramped up broadband support in 2020, according to a new report from The Pew Charitable Trusts. Twelve state legislatures allocated money to existing broadband funds…
HOUSTON, TX — March 25, 2021 – CHR Solutions announces that Beacon Broadband has selected Omnia360 as their business software solution. Beacon Broadband is a subsidiary of Coos-Curry Electric Cooperative (CCEC) in Southern Oregon and is building a fiber-to-the-premises network…
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