Circle Fiber is building a FTTP network supporting 10 gigabit speeds to Cape Girardeau County, Missouri using funding from the USDA ReConnect program. Circle Fiber, which is an operating unit of 30-year-old Big River Communications of Missouri, will eventually pass…
The USDA has made an additional $16.4 million in awards in three states through the ReConnect rural broadband program. The USDA ReConnect grants and grant/loan combinations went to telecommunications companies serving Illinois, Oregon and South Carolina. In all, the awards…
The USDA ReConnect program has granted the Pembroke Telephone Company $4.6 million to build a FTTP network in rural Georgia. The grant will be used to deploy a network connecting 3,444 people living in 1,326 households, 73 farms and 19…
The USDA ReConnect program is investing $12.2 million to bring broadband to unserved and underserved areas of Louisiana. The Louisiana USDA ReConnect award goes to The Star Telephone Company. The investment will be evenly split between a grant and a…
Republican members of the Congressional Commerce Committee are calling on the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to audit the USDA’s Rural eConnectivity Pilot Program, commonly referred to as the ReConnect program. The ReConnect audit request came in the form of a…
The USDA ReConnect program has awarded three grants totaling $11.3 million that will add Alaska FTTP based projects. In all, the projects potentially will serve 1,343 people, 52 businesses and other important locations such as schools and fire stations. The…
The USDA ReConnect Program has continued its string of rural broadband investments with a grant award to The Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative to deploy a FTTP network to connect rural Brunswick and Halifax counties in Virginia. The USDA ReConnect Virginia award…
Round 2 of the USDA ReConnect Program invested an additional $46 million in 10 projects in seven states over the past few days. The investments, which all are for fiber-to-the premise networks, bring the USDA ReConnect Round 2 total to…
The USDA already has awarded the full $550 million budget allocated for Phase 2 of the ReConnect rural broadband program. But it may award as much as an additional $150 million, a USDA official told Telecompetitor. The agency can do…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ReConnect program late last week announced six awards with a total value of $37 million for fiber broadband networks in rural Alabama. Total awards made now surpass the $550 million USDA ReConnect Round 2 budget….
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ReConnect Program has announced 15 more second round awards. The program is investing almost $158 million in Kentucky, Illinois, Washington, Missouri, Michigan, New Mexico and Iowa. So far, the second round of the ReConnect Program,…
The USDA ReConnect Program has made awards to service providers for deployment of FTTP networks in West Virginia, Illinois and Minnesota. The West Virginia, Illinois and Minnesota USDA ReConnect awards came in the form of grants. The three projects, which…
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