The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today awarded 12 additional grants, totaling more than $33.5 million, as part of the part of the Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program (CMC). The program is directing $268 million from…
Four states – Alabama, Kentucky, Nevada and Texas – have been approved for projects funded through the Capital Projects Fund (CPF). The awards were announced by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The awards total $793.7 million and will reach…
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…
The Missouri Department of Economic Development has awarded Charter Communications nearly $12 million in grants for three broadband deployment projects in Missouri. A total of $261 million was awarded, with the balance going to 11 smaller providers. The smaller providers…
Consolidated Communications won two grants totaling approximately $17 million in the Connect the Ready broadband funding program administered by the Maine Connectivity Authority. Four other providers, including TDS Telecom, won an additional $17 million in the program. The funding will…
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…
Four years after the Connect America Fund II auction was completed, the FCC said yesterday that it has completed the process of reviewing long-form applications from all winning bidders. There were 195 authorized applicant/state combinations totaling $1.48 billion, as well…
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,…
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