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,…
In its largest network expansion, Zayo is upgrading its long haul dark fiber, 400G network and subsea routes worldwide. The investment will generate new and upgraded routes during the next 18 months. The new 400G routes are between: Dallas and…
As the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) gears up to administer the $42.5 billion BEAD rural broadband infrastructure funding program, NTIA Administrator Alan Davidson gave an update at a Washington, D.C. event today. The event was also webcast (and…
The NTIA is seeking input on implementing three broadband funding programs that were established in the infrastructure bill signed into law in November. In a 14-page request for comment (RFC), NTIA asks for input on 36 questions pertaining to the…
Business-only fiber network Everstream grew to nearly 27,000 miles of route fiber during 2021, increasing its footprint 80% from the previous year. The company invested $600 million in its expansion, building nearly 2,000 route miles of fiber in new and…
At the same time that the government is making unprecedented funding available for broadband, it also is considering setting more ambitious broadband goals. A new set of ambitious goals came this week from the FCC Precision Agriculture Task Force which,…
C Spire has finished the two-plus years, multi-million-dollar construction of a 225-mile-long fiber optic cable route from Kiln, Mississippi to West Mobile, Alabama, the company announced. Alabama consumers and businesses represent a critical portion of C Spire’s $1 billion investment…
In this next installment of Telecompetitor’s Broadband Industry Innovator video series, I speak with Sean Middleton, Director of Strategy and Operations, at Finley, about the importance of middle mile infrastructure for utilities and their potential telco partners. The issue is…
Small telcos can sometimes do astonishingly big things. Case in point: MTA Fiber Holdings, a wholly owned subsidiary of Alaskan telecom cooperative MTA that is responsible for the creation of AlCan ONE, the first-ever terrestrial fiber network connecting Alaska with…
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