Out-of-box thinker Hunter Newby is at it again. His company, Newby Ventures, is 50% of a new joint venture — Connected Nation Internet Exchange Points (CNIXP) — that aims to establish 125 new carrier-neutral internet exchange points (IXPs) in markets…
Regional data center and network operator Bluebird Network intends to acquire the middle mile fiber network assets of Missouri Telecom Inc. (MTI). The two companies have signed an asset purchase agreement for the deal, which is expected to close by…
Vermont stakeholders have collaborated on an application for $114 million in funding through the NTIA middle mile grant program. If awarded, the funding would represent over 10% of the approximately $1 billion allotted to the program, which has proven to…
More than 235 applications totaling more than $5.5 billion have been submitted to the National Telecommunications and Infrastructure Administration’s (NTIA) Enabling Middle Mile Infrastructure Grant Program. The program has a budget of $1 billion. The NTIA – which is part…
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) wants to offer a limited waiver of the Buy America Domestic Content Procurement Preference provisions for the Middle Mile grant program. That program has a budget of $980 million to cover some of…
The state of Alabama has awarded $82.5 million to a corporation formed by eight rural electric cooperatives to fund a middle mile broadband network that will connect almost 3,000 miles of existing and new fiber infrastructure. The project is expected…
Hoosier Net, a collaborative of telecommunications network providers of middle mile services in Indiana, has become a member of INDATEL, a national independent member network headquartered in Kansas. In a press release on the INDATEL website, Hoosier Net says it…
Peninsula Fiber Network, LLC (PFN) and 123NET are partnering for a privately funded middle mile fiber optic network from Bay City to Southfield, Michigan. This multi-million-dollar project spans approximately 130 miles adding middle-mile capacity to Michigan’s telecommunications infrastructure. PFN has…
The goal of a $10.5 million grant from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to Merit Network and Michigan State University is to interconnect the state’s Internet pathways to create a statewide middle mile network. The Michigan Open Optical…
NTIA began accepting applications to the middle mile funding program this week and has issued 88 pages of guidance for network operators requesting funding. The program, which was created in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (also known as the…
California has awarded new contracts to supply the necessary building materials for 3,000 miles of broadband infrastructure, approving contracts for a pair of vendors totaling nearly $225 million that will allow the state to purchase enough optical fiber and materials….
The NTIA released a 54-page notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) early this morning for the nearly $1 billion Middle Mile program established in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). Today’s notice details the requirements that funded projects must meet,…
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