Kansas has awarded $44.5 million in funding to nine broadband providers in the third and final awards phase of the Kansas Capital Project Funds (CPF) Broadband Infrastructure Program, according to Kansas Commerce. The funding will serve 18,468 locations in 15…
The FCC’s Emergency Connectivity Fund (ECF) has committed more than $40 million to support about 100,000 students in off-campus environments in six states. More than $6.5 billion has now been committed through the fund, which is closing in on exhausting…
The NTIA said Friday that the next update to the National Broadband Map will come out June 30 as planned, rejecting requests made by some states for an extension. Those states wanted more time to file challenges to map data….
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,…
Georgia last week announced more than $234 million in state broadband funding. Comcast had both the most awards (eight) and was the top grant recipient at nearly $67 million. In all, the 29 preliminary grants, which were made through the…
A group of Tennessee broadband providers has launched projects that received $53.5 million in state broadband funding. The group, known as Project UNITE, is spearheaded by local provider United Communications. The projects will make high-speed broadband — fiber or wireless…
Frontier has received $440 million in government grants for broadband deployments, said the company’s chief financial officer and executive vice President Scott Beasley at an investor conference today. Most of that money came from the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF)….
The FCC’s Emergency Connectivity Fund (ECF) has committed more than $34 million in a new funding round. The funding will focus on supporting about 890,000 students in Colorado, Idaho, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio and Washington. The announcement brings the committed total…
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 Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development has awarded 61 grants in the sixth year of its Border-to-Border Broadband Development Grant program. The grants total $99,592,711. This funding will be supported by $152,259,620 in private and local funds for…
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,…
There’s a lot going on in broadband these days, so I’ll skip the intro and launch right into the top broadband news of 2022. In no particular order, the big stories include: Telcos’ Broadband Turnaround Now that telcos are more…
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