Brightspeed, a new fiber player which is buying Lumen’s ILEC assets in 20 states and is led by former Verizon executives, announced Louisiana as the sixth state set to benefit from its ambitious multi-year deployment plan. Though it has yet to reveal additional plans for individual states, COO Tom Maguire said it is targeting work across “virtually all of our state footprint” in 2022 and 2023.
The Economic Development Administration has announced a new funding opportunity that includes two programs that will strengthen equitable economic development strategies across the nation. This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) funds two distinct national programs designed to support underserved communities and populations across the country in developing successful economic development plans and projects.
The Federal Communications Commission is in the midst of a multi-year, multi-million-dollar effort to update its broadband coverage map. But the gears of government turn slowly and rather than waiting for the new FCC maps, several states including Virginia, New York, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas and Florida have either already released or are developing their own maps. While this might seem like a duplicative effort on the surface, Anna Read, senior officer for Pew's Broadband Access Initiative, said the state-level maps will complement rather than compete with the new FCC map.
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