by Pivot
Category: Mississippi
Funding Approved for Twelve Mississippi Broadband Projects
Mississippi’s Office of Broadband Expansion and Accessibility of Mississippi (BEAM) recently gave the go-ahead for a dozen broadband infrastructure projects, with the projected $32.5 million cost to be funded by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Capital…
Mississippi Approves $21.6M in State Broadband Funding
The Office of Broadband Expansion and Accessibility of Mississippi (BEAM) has approved $21.6 million for nine broadband expansion projects that collectively will provide access to about 12,300 households. The Capital Projects Fund (CPF) is funding…
Mississippi Broadband Awards $71M to AT&T, Comcast, C Spire, Conexon, Others
The state of Mississippi awarded $70.9 million this week to nine providers to cover some of the costs of 24 broadband deployment projects in areas lacking high-speed service. Among the awardees were AT&T, Comcast, C…
Mississippi Broadband Director: Funding Awarded to the State Has Gotten “Larger and Larger”
The state of Mississippi will be getting one of the largest allotments in the BEAD rural broadband funding program–$1.2 billion. The funding comes on top of $151.5 million that the state was awarded from the…
AT&T: We’ve Won Broadband Funding for 130K Locations in Past Year
AT&T says that it has leveraged public-private partnerships to bring its broadband fiber network to more than 130,000 locations during the past year. The funding for these projects includes funding from the American Rescue Plan…
Mississippi to Get $151.5M Through Capital Projects Fund for Broadband
The U.S. Treasury has approved the state of Mississippi to receive $151.5 million from the Capital Projects Fund (CPF) for broadband deployments. The funding represents 93% of the state’s entire CPF allotment. The funding will…
$63M in ReConnect Funding Goes to Providers in Four States
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is investing $63 million in ReConnect funding to bring broadband to rural areas of Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Mississippi. The four projects all are in the form of grants and…
Four More States Get BEAD Broadband Planning Grants
The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has awarded a total of more than $21.9 million in planning grants to four states under the Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) and the…
Gigabit Broadband From 4-County Electric Power Coming to Rural Mississippi
The 4-County Electric Power Association electrical cooperative in east central Mississippi is moving beyond the pilot phase of its network upgrade, according to DZS Inc., one of the partners on the project. During the next…
DE Lightspeed Taps CARES, RDOF Funding for Rural Mississippi Broadband Projects
DE Lightspeed, the broadband subsidiary of the Delta Electric Power Association, has successfully leveraged government funding for the fiber broadband services that the company has deployed in rural Mississippi. DE Lightspeed was created after Mississippi…
C Spire Expansion Commits $1 Billion for 5G, Gigabit Fiber Networks in Alabama and Mississippi
C Spire today announced a $1 billion network expansion that will include high-speed fixed and 5G mobile networks in Mississippi and Alabama. Approximately half of the investment will go to all-fiber gigabit networks in Alabama;…
USDA ReConnect Program Grants $4.6M for Mississippi Broadband
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ReConnect Program has awarded a grant of $4.6 million to The Bay Springs Telephone Company, an affiliate of TEC, for deployment of a FTTP network in rural Mississippi. The network…
