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…
Competitive rural-focused fiber broadband provider Highline says that it has completed construction of an area known as “The Thumb” area of Michigan and now is offering broadband to more than 8,000 households in Sanilac, Tuscola, Lapeer and St. Clair counties….
Kwikom, a broadband provider based in Kansas that also serves some markets in Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma, has begun work on fiber deployments in several Kansas markets. Deployments in some of these markets were funded, in part, through a state…
Charter and Brightspeed have formally announced broadband funding wins in the latest round of funding through the North Carolina GREAT program. The program targets unserved and underserved areas and requires providers to deploy speeds of at least 100 Mbps symmetrically….
Small rural carriers have a big decision to make by Sept. 29, now that the FCC has released new broadband funding offers. The new offers are based on a higher broadband speed, as mandated in the enhanced Alternative Connect America…
In the past three years, home internet usage has skyrocketed as more people work from home, use new streaming services, engage in telehealth and online education, and adopt connected appliances like thermostats and refrigerators. As home internet usage rises, consumers…
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