North Carolina’s Growing Rural Economies with Access to Technology (GREAT) matching grant program has awarded Brightspeed more than $90 million to bring broadband to 38,000 addresses in 29 counties. The grants were announced last week by the North Carolina Department…
Service providers had until September 1 to submit broadband availability data into the FCC Broadband Data Collection system. FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel took the opportunity on Friday to highlight the commission’s efforts to update broadband availability information in a post…
SEPTEMBER 02, 2022 – BEAUMONT, Texas — Spectrum today announced the launch of Spectrum Internet, Mobile, TV and Voice services to more than 2,670 homes and small businesses in rural Jefferson County, Texas. Spectrum’s newly constructed fiber-optic network buildout is…
North Carolina has announced grants of more than $206 million in its Growing Rural Economies with Access to Technology (GREAT) grant program. In all, the grants will bring broadband access to almost 85,000 households and more than 2,400 businesses in…
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has awarded five states a total of $408 million from the Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund (CPF) for broadband deployments. The fund supports capital projects that promote work, education, and health monitoring efforts during the…
The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has awarded more than $118.8 million in grants as part of the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program, bringing the total amount of program grants awarded to date to more than $457 million. The…
As the nation gets serious about making broadband available to everyone, one of the more ambitious approaches comes from Vermont, where the state has been funding a considerable portion of projects undertaken by communications union districts (CUDs) – local organizations…
Fiber broadband could add over $78 million in annual home-based revenue for a community with a population of 100,000, according to a new report from RVA Market Research & Consulting for the Fiber Broadband Association (FBA). The researchers see the…
In part III of the latest Broadband Industry Innovator series, we talk with SaskTel’s Director of Fiber to the Premises, Tim Ludwar, about what motivated SaskTel to take on a fiber expansion project of this magnitude in Saskatchewan, Canada. This is part III…
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has awarded $49,112,883.26 in grants to tribes in two states. The awards to the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians of Mississippi and the Osage Nation of Oklahoma will provide funds for high-speed internet…
Public private broadband partnerships (PPPs) are in full swing, thanks to the unprecedented funding that has been made available for broadband deployments. The latest example comes from Polk County, Texas, where the county has partnered with two small rural telcos…
All 50 states and all U.S. territories have submitted applications for planning funds for the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program, which is the first step in making $42.5 billion in funding available to cover some of costs of…
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