The two public private partnerships that AT&T has announced in Indiana, including one expected with the City of Boonville, could be the first of many, said Jeff Luong, AT&T president for broadband access and adoption initiatives, in an interview with…
The Board of Commissioners of Orange County, N.C. voted unanimously this week to enter a public-private partnership with NorthState Communications to bring fiber Internet services to about 28,000 locations in the county, many of which that have poor or no…
Windstream announced today that it has received authorizations from the FCC to receive a total of $523 million in RDOF funds, which the carrier sees as a springboard for growing through public-private partnerships (PPPs). The funding will help Windstream extend…
Leveraging funds from an $18.3 million grant from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), Consolidated Communications plans to deliver Fidium fiber internet to 22,000 rural Maine homes and businesses through a public/private partnership with Connect Maine. Connect Maine was…
Arctaris Impact Investors, LLC plans to build new fiber broadband networks in unserved and economically distressed rural, urban, and suburban areas, including Opportunity Zones, in the state of Maine, the investment firm announced today. The investment firm will partner with…
January 14, 2022 – Bolton ⎯ Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom (WCVT) plans to convert all remaining Bolton residents in its service area to fiber-optics in 2022. This was made possible in part by the Town of Bolton which has…
The funding available for broadband deployment in the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) could be what some small towns need to make fiber construction projects feasible that previously were not feasible, as news this week from Minnesota broadband provider Arvig…
Communities considering public private broadband partnerships should beware of “questionable proposals” from broadband providers, cautions a new report from CTC Technology & Energy published by the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society. The report also offers an analysis of potentially…
EVANSVILLE, IND., November 10, 2021 – Vanderburgh County Commissioners today signed a $39.6 million contract with AT&T to build a state-of-the art fiber network that will deliver high-speed internet to unincorporated parts of the county within two years. “High-speed internet…
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