by Pivot
Category: Maryland
Comcast is the Big Winner in Maryland Broadband Funding Round
Comcast was the big winner of rural broadband funding announced recently by the state of Maryland, Telecompetitor has learned. Ten other providers – primarily local fiber operators — also will receive funding. Eleven out of…
Maryland Awards $19.6M for Broadband Deployments
Eighteen Maryland jurisdictions will share $19.6 million to go toward the cost of high-speed broadband deployments to locations that don’t have service. Rules for the program, known as the Home Stretch for Difficult to Serve…
Maryland Broadband Dashboard: 20 Providers Granted $239M Since 2019
The state of Maryland has created a useful online dashboard showing how much broadband funding it awarded between 2019 and 2023. Interested parties can check information by provider and by year. A total of 20…
Broadband/Utility Partnership Will Leverage Local Ties
Working together previously is what led Bay Country Communications, a cable/voice/ISP provider, and Choptank Electric Cooperative and its subsidiary Choptank Fiber LLC, to take things to the next level, said Tim McGaha, Vice President of…
Verizon Officially Announces ARPA-Funded Maryland Fiber Deployments
Verizon will make its Fios fiber broadband service available to almost 4,000 previously unserved Maryland homes and businesses in a deployment funded, in part, through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). As Telecompetitor previously reported,…
Comcast and Verizon Win Maryland Broadband Funding But Weren’t the Biggest Winners
Comcast was awarded approximately $14.4 million, Verizon was awarded approximately $11 million and Shentel was awarded approximately $9.3 million in broadband funding from the state of Maryland this week. But they weren’t the biggest winners…
Maryland Wants More Time on Broadband Map Challenges
Both Maryland senators and seven of state’s eight members of Congress sent a letter to FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel last week asking for more time to file challenges to the current version of the commission’s…
Eight More States Get BEAD, Digital Equity Planning Grants
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has announced another set of planning grants for its Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) and Digital Equity programs. BEAD is a $42.45 billion program and Digital Equity…
Four States Get $357M in Treasury Capital Projects Funding for Broadband
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has announced that four states have been approved to receive $357 million for broadband project through the American Rescue Plan’s Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund (CPF). The four states are…
Maryland Plans $127.6 Million in Broadband Grants
Maryland has joined other states in offering millions in broadband grants. MD Gov. Larry Hogan announced today that his state’s plan will include more than $127.6 million in broadband grants, which will help provide broadband…
Breezeline Outlines Maryland Public-Private Partnerships
Regional cable MSO Breezeline, formerly Atlantic Broadband, has entered into two public-private partnerships in Maryland. The larger of the two partnerships will extend broadband to 524 homes and businesses in Cecil, St. Mary’s and Queen…
Shentel Glo Fiber Makes a Move, Now in Maryland for First Time
Shentel Glo Fiber, the multi-gigabit FTTH broadband service of Shenandoah Telecommunications, will begin serving Frederick, MD in January. The all-fiber network – the company’s first in Maryland — eventually will offer service to about 20,000…
