States will get an average of $743 million in funding through the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program, according to a state BEAD allocations estimate from carrier organization ACA Connects and research firm Cartesian. Texas is poised to get…
As federal and local government agencies award funding to cover some of the costs of deploying broadband to unserved and underserved rural areas, one company that has used that funding from a variety of sources to fuel its deployment efforts…
Comcast plans to spend $36 million to deploy fiber broadband to unserved and underserved areas of 19 Indiana counties. The news comes now that the company has signed contracts with the state, which will contribute $13.6 million toward total project…
AT&T and Comcast are among the top six winners of broadband funding from the state of South Carolina announced yesterday. Thirteen other companies also won funding. In total $132.8 million was awarded. The funding will cover 52% of construction costs,…
In the latest example of consolidation in the rural broadband market, southeast regional service provider LiveOak Fiber says it intends to purchase telecom assets in the Glynn and Camden counties of Georgia from Alma Telephone Company Broadband (ATC Broadband). The…
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…
Four states – Alabama, Kentucky, Nevada and Texas – have been approved for projects funded through the Capital Projects Fund (CPF). The awards were announced by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The awards total $793.7 million and will reach…
The FCC has approved four proposals and is seeking comment on four items related to the Rural Health Care (RHC) Program, which provides financial support to eligible health care providers for high-speed broadband and telecom services. The goal of the…
Charter hopes to complete its RDOF-funded rural broadband deployment ahead of time, said Chris Winfrey, Charter president and CEO, on today’s fourth quarter earnings call. The take rate in those areas is ahead of expectations, he said. Charter made broadband…
While researching enterprise software can be a daunting task, the first step is rather simple. Ask yourself this: Do I want to work with a vendor or a technology partner? While some vendors say it is just semantics, Members of…
The FCC is encouraging state and local governments and broadband providers to file bulk challenges to the commission’s broadband serviceable location database by March 15. Bulk challenges received by that date are most likely to be addressed in time to…
AT&T expects to see BEAD funding flow from the federal government to the states and expects the “more aggressive” states to award some of that funding to broadband projects before year-end, said AT&T CEO John Stankey on the company’s fourth…
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