Stimulus dollars are connecting Eric Mack’s tiny mountain town to a high-speed fiber network. But without further investment, the new technology could continue to pass him by.
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ADTRAN, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADTN) says that Missouri CLEC and Internet provider Socket Telecom has built a broadband stimulus funded fiber to the home (FTTH) network in central Missouri using the ADTRAN Total Access 5000 broadband platform.
Calix’s (NYSE: CALX) emphasis on serving broadband stimulus award winners has paid off in the current quarter as the vendor reported that an additional 12 service providers have signed deals to leverage their Unified Access portfolio.
In total, the ven…
Stilwell, Okla. is the latest town that will benefit from Windstream’s (Nasdaq: WIN) broadband stimulus program, as the ILEC has begun building out necessary network facilities in the area to deliver broadband services to area residential and business …
Oregon’s Clackamas County is the latest region to face a challenge in getting their broadband stimulus middle mile project off the ground due to a disagreement over franchise fees in Oregon City.
As reported in The Oregonian, Clackamas County broke gro…
Windstream’s (Nasdaq: WIN) move to begin construction on its latest broadband stimulus project in South Carolina shows that the telco is accelerating its project completion schedule.
To date, the service provider has begun projects in six states, inclu…
As a Congressional Committee begins sniffing around oversight of broadband stimulus funding due to the Open Range bankruptcy, the Rural Utilities Service of the Department of Agriculture this week announced a total of $478.5 million in new broadband lo…
Louisiana is losing an $80 million grant intended to expand broadband service in the state. The grant was intended to help in deploying 900 miles of fiber to anchor institutions including universities, schools, libraries, healthcare facilities with…
Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN) has broken ground on its first broadband stimulus project in Mayo, Fla. thanks to a broadband stimulus grant it won in the state under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
The project in Mayo is being funded …
Lousiana’s Broadband Alliance (LBA) project may have had some grand ambitions, but it looks like those ambitions may be a dream deferred as the U.S. Department of Commerce has revoked its $80 million Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTO…