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California Middle Mile Network Chooses Mapping System to Tie It All Together
Portland, Maine – May 2, 2023 — VETRO, a provider of the market-leading, user-friendly cloud-native fiber management system has been selected as the system of record for what will be the nation’s largest broadband network. When…
Idaho Broadband Funding Goes to Two Open Access Networks
Not all state-level broadband funding awards are going to commercial service providers, as recent news from Idaho illustrates. The Idaho Broadband Advisory Board made two awards earlier this month. An award for $20 million went…
Maryland Broadband Cooperative Selects Middle Mile Network Vendor
Salisbury, Maryland & Hanover, Maryland – February 13, 2022 – (BUSINESS WIRE) – The Maryland Broadband Cooperative (MdBC), a middle-mile network provider, has tapped Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) for new transport gear to upgrade its existing 2,500 fiber mile statewide…
Smaller Cities to Gain Access to the Internet Exchange Point Club: CNIXP
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…
Bluebird to Extend Missouri Network with Missouri Telecom Assets Purchase
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…
Vermonters Put Full Court Press on Middle Mile Funding Application
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…
NTIA Receives Applications for $5.5B in $1B Middle Mile Grant Program
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 May Offer Buy America Waiver for Middle Mile Program
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…
Alabama Electric Co-ops Get $82.5M for Middle Mile Network
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…
Hoosier Net Joins INDATEL
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…
Michigan Providers Collaborate on Middle-Mile Fiber Project
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 Aims for the MOON with Middle Mile Public-Private Partnership
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…
