Charter, Brightspeed Announce North Carolina Broadband Funding Awards

Charter and Brightspeed have formally announced broadband funding wins in the latest round of funding through the North Carolina Growing Rural Economies with Access to Technology (GREAT) program. The program targets unserved and underserved areas and requires providers to deploy speeds of at least 100 Mbps symmetrically. Brightspeed said it won approximately $12 million for four counties, bringing the total funding awarded to the company to date in the GREAT program to about $103 million. Brightspeed will service the four counties of Halifax, Nash, Person, and Wake. Charter won awards for eight counties in the July 2023 funding round. Charter's North Carolina counties are Montgomery, Beaufort, Caldwell, Moore, Burke, Caswell, Catawba, and Pitt counties.