Consolidated Communications will build a fiber network in Lamoille County, Vermont that will be funded, in part, through the state. Consolidated will invest almost $10 million in the network and the Lamoille FiberNet communications union district will invest $14.9 million….
Two regional service providers – 360 Communications and 903 Broadband – merged last month to create a new company called 360 Broadband. The company will serve almost 16,000 customers in Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas. To reach its customers, the company…
The state of New Mexico has awarded $66.8 million to cover some of the costs of making broadband available to 10,300 unserved and underserved locations. Tribal areas were the big winners, with more than half of the funding ($40.72 million)…
Although 85% of U.S. farms have internet access, only 51% use broadband to access the internet, according to data released recently from the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. Researchers defined broadband to include DSL, cable modems and fiber broadband, and…
One of the key things that keeps state broadband officials awake at night is the possibility that there may be unserved areas of the state where no provider wants to deploy service—even with a subsidy. The good news is that…
Liberty Communications is an example of a company that started out decades ago as a rural phone company but has transitioned to being a fiber broadband provider offering highly competitive multi-gigabit speeds and expanding beyond its traditional local service turf….
Regional broadband provider Lumos formally announced one of its recent North Carolina broadband funding awards yesterday. The project will augment an existing project which ultimately will make service available to 14,000 underserved homes in Goldsboro, NC, which is in Wayne…
Rural broadband consolidator Vyve Broadband has acquired the commercial arm of ATC Broadband serving the Vidalia, GA area. The network serves the cities of Swainsboro, Lyons and Vidalia as well as Emanuel, Toombs and Montgomery counties. Financial and other details…
The U.S. Treasury has awarded Oklahoma $167.7 million in the $10 billion Capital Projects Fund (CPF) program. The funding will serve about 13% of locations in the state that currently lack high speed Internet access. The funding, which was made…
NRTC, a membership cooperative of rural electric and telecom providers, has acquired Pivot Group, a marketing and customer experience (CX) agency that serves rural broadband providers. NRTC traditionally has focused on technology, helping members plan, deploy and manage technology investments….
Winning funding in the $42.5 billion broadband equity, access and deployment (BEAD) rural broadband program will be “trickier than we were hoping for,” said Charter CEO Chris Winfrey at an investor conference today. “We didn’t get all the guidelines and NTIA instructions…
LICT Corp. announced in its second quarter earnings report released Friday that it has completed its spinoff of Michigan Broadband on August 31. The spinoff company is now known as MachTen Inc. Each LICT shareholder received 150 shares of MachTen…
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