by Pivot
Category: Missouri
Missouri Receives 519 BEAD Program Applications in Round One
The Missouri Office of Broadband Development (OBD) announced that the year’s first round of Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) funding is closed. During this initial round, OBD received a total of 519 applications, which…
Missouri Broadband Director on the Future of BEAD
BJ Tanksley has been the director of Missouri’s broadband office since 2022 and has lived and breathed rural broadband for even longer. “I had been an advocate for rural broadband for over ten years,” he…
Georgia and Missouri Accept BEAD Applications: Here Are the Scoring Criteria
Georgia has begun accepting applications in the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) rural broadband funding program, and Missouri plans to do so beginning on Thursday. Both states were allotted relatively large amounts of funding…
State Broadband Directors Talk BEAD Timelines, Provider Participation
The thinking behind the $42.5 billion BEAD rural funding program was that individual states were better positioned than the federal government to understand their local needs and tailor state-level rules accordingly. And although the NTIA…
AT&T, UScellular Win More Missouri Rural Cell Tower Funding
AT&T, UScellular and three other companies will share nearly $8 million in funding from the state of Missouri to cover some of the costs of deploying cell towers in high-cost rural areas of the state.…
UScellular, AT&T Win Missouri Rural Cell Tower Funding
Missouri’s Department of Economic Development (DED) has awarded $12 million through its Cell Towers Grant Program. The awards are going to three organizations for a total of 29 projects. UScellular, which applied for funding as…
Missouri Offers $20M in Funding for Cell Towers
The final guidelines for the $20 million Missouri Cell Tower Grant Program have been released by the state’s Department of Economic Development (DED). The state will begin accepting applications in the funding program on May…
Charter, 11 Smaller Providers, Win Missouri Broadband Grants
The Missouri Department of Economic Development has awarded Charter Communications nearly $12 million in grants for three broadband deployment projects in Missouri. A total of $261 million was awarded, with the balance going to 11…
Tier 3 M&A: Ozark Fiber Buys Missouri Telecom Assets
Ozark Fiber has acquired the internet and voice business for residential and small-to-medium-sized businesses from Missouri Telecom in Monett, MO and surrounding areas for an undisclosed price. Ozark Fiber started building its high-speed fiber-optic network…
Bluebird to Extend Missouri Network with Missouri Telecom Assets Purchase
Regional data center and network operator Bluebird Network intends to acquire the middle mile fiber network assets of Missouri Telecom Inc. (MTI). The two companies have signed an asset purchase agreement for the deal, which…
Brightspeed Aims to Pass 310K Addresses in Missouri
In the latest in a series of announcements, Brightspeed says that it aims to bring fiber service to 310,000 residential and business addresses in Missouri during the next few years. The first 130,000 of those…
Missouri Fixed Wireless Trial Seeks to Use Machine Learning to Improve Service
A trial of fixed wireless technology in the small rural Missouri town of Turney aims to use machine learning to improve service. An intelligent router and a machine learning algorithm will be used to predict…
