The USDA today said it will make $1.15 billion available in the next round of the ReConnect program to cover some of the costs of deploying broadband to rural areas where broadband is not available today. Areas in which 90%…
Rural Broadband
Virginia Expects Universal Broadband Access by 2024
Virginia expects to become one of the first states to achieve universal broadband access by 2024 thanks to a combination of public and private funding. Governor Ralph Northam announced yesterday that the commonwealth expects more than $2 billion in total…
Good News for Windstream, Bad News for LTD Broadband in Latest FCC RDOF Action
The FCC said today that it is ready to authorize Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) winnings for Windstream and 11 other companies that were winning bidders in last year’s RDOF auction. LTD Broadband is not among them and the company…
More RDOF Winning Bidders Get ETC Designation
Several more winning bidders in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction have received eligible telecommunications carriers (ETC) designation for areas where they tentatively won funding. The new designations are for states where the FCC Is responsible for awarding designations….
TDS Awarded $2 Million in ARPA Funding for Wisconsin Broadband Projects
TDS Telecom has been awarded more than $2 million for two broadband projects in Wisconsin. The broadband funding was made available to the state through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). The ARPA broadband funding awards were made by the…
Ziply to Add Five More Fiber Markets
Ziply Fiber’s $500 million expansion continued this week with an announcement of an additional five markets in Washington and Idaho. The new markets bring the total to 41 this year and 57 since the company began the expansion 18 months…
FCC Authorizes 21 More Winning RDOF Bidders Including Cox Communications
The FCC has authorized 21 more winning bidders in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF). The only large bidder on the list is Cox Communications, which had funding authorized for nine states. Cincinnati Bell also had funding authorized for deployments…
California’s South Valley Internet Offers Symmetrical Gigabit Wireless
South Valley Internet, a competitive broadband provider serving a semi-rural area south of Silicon Valley, has launched a symmetrical gigabit service using fixed wireless technology. We talked to Elise Brentnall, South Valley Internet president & chief operations officer, about the…
Charter Updates FCC on RDOF Plans, Withdraws Census Blocks
As the RDOF program gets underway, there’s a lot of clean up taking place with the rural broadband funding program. As the largest winning bidder by number of locations to be funded, cable MSO Charter is participating in this clean…
FCC Ready to Authorize More Smaller RDOF Winners, Gets Set for Defaults
The FCC said today that it is ready to authorize funding for 42 companies that were among the smaller winning bidders in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction. Also today, the FCC released a list of defaulted census blocks…
NTIA Lists Broadband Infrastructure Program Funding Applicants, Challenge Process Begins
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has released a list of entities that applied for funding through the NTIA Broadband Infrastructure Program (BIP). The list includes the census blocks to which each entity proposes to bring broadband, and NTIA…
Arcadian Infracom Plans Rural Southwest Fiber Build with Navajo Nation
Arcadian Infracom will use an investment of as much as $140 million from investment firm TIAA, which focuses on the retirement market, to accelerate fiber projects in the four-corners region of the southwest. Arcadian Infracom calls itself “an internet infrastructure…
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