Governor Ivey Awards Nearly $42 Million in Broadband Expansion Projects Across Alabama

Governor Kay Ivey (R-AL) awarded nearly $42 million for “last-mile” high-speed internet projects in 23 Alabama counties. The latest Capital Projects Fund grants will cover 2,347 miles and provide broadband availability to more than 15,000 households, businesses, and community anchor institutions in the state that currently do not have access to high-speed internet. Those awarded grants (listed alphabetically) and coverage areas are:

• Central Alabama Electric Cooperative – $2.28 million to provide high-speed internet service over a 40-mile area in Chilton County providing access to 1,046 unserved households, businesses and community anchor institutions.
• Connect Holding (Brightspeed) – $139,968 to provide high-speed internet to 315 unserved households and businesses over a 51-mile area in Mobile County.
• Connect Holding (Brightspeed) – $69,553 to provide high-speed broadband access to 249 unserved households, businesses and community anchor institutions over a 19-mile area in Baldwin County.
• Farmers Telecommunications Corp. – $1.93 million to provide high-speed broadband access to 380 unserved households, businesses and community anchor institutions over a 44-mile area in Jackson County.
• Innovations America (Bama Fiber) – $5 million to provide high-speed internet access to 3,261 unserved households, businesses and community anchor institutions in Randolph County over a 360-mile area.
• Mediacom – $720,905 to provide high-speed internet accessibility to 122 unserved households, businesses and community anchor institutions in a 10-mile area of Mobile County.
• Millry Telephone Co. – $2.84 million to provide 51 miles of high-speed internet accessibility to 236 unserved households and businesses in Washington County.
• Spectrum Southeast – $5 million to provide high-speed internet accessibility over a 110-mile area to 934 unserved households, businesses and community anchor institutions in Shelby County.
• Spectrum Southeast – $5 million to provide 105 miles of high-speed internet accessibility to 1,303 unserved households, businesses and community anchor institutions in Walker County.
• Spectrum Southeast – $4.43 million to provide high-speed internet accessibility to 662 unserved households, businesses and community anchor institutions in a 93-mile area in Colbert and Lauderdale counties.
• Spectrum Southeast – $5 million to provide 111 miles of high-speed internet accessibility for 1,017 unserved households, businesses and community anchor institutions in St. Clair County.
• Roanoke Telephone Co. – $912,171 to supply high-speed internet accessibility over 111 miles to cover 1,118 unserved households, businesses and community anchor institutions in Randolph County.
• Troy Cablevision (C Spire) – $5 million to provide high-speed internet to 2,132 unserved households, businesses and community anchor institutions in Baldwin, Coffee, Crenshaw, Covington, Houston and Pike counties covering 243 miles.
• Yellowhammer Networks – $3.63 million to provide high-speed internet over nearly 1,000 miles to provide access to 2,352 unserved households, businesses and community anchor institutions in Bibb, Chilton, Dallas, Greene, Hale, Marengo, Perry, Shelby and Sumter counties.