Idaho Awards $119 Million for Broadband to Ziply, Comcast and Others

The state of Idaho has awarded nearly $119 million in funding to Ziply, Comcast and 14 others. Ziply won two awards totaling over $14.3 million. Comcast won a single award for over $9.8 million. Other awardees included competitive and incumbent local providers. In addition, some awards went to individual counties. Awardees will contribute matching funds equal to 30 percent of project costs on average. The funding will go toward last mile and middle mile projects. The funding for the program came through the federal Capital Projects Fund. Idaho was awarded $120 million for the state program, known as the Capital Projects Fund- Broadband Infrastructure Grant program. As with many recent broadband funding programs, the state received applications requesting considerably more funding than the state had available. Forty-one applicants requested a total of over $596 million. Among the applicants that did not receive funding were Charter, Cox, Lumen, TDS and Vyve Broadband.