Maryland Broadband Dashboard: 20 Providers Granted $239 Million Since 2019

The state of Maryland has created a useful online dashboard showing how much broadband funding it awarded between 2019 and 2023. Interested parties can check information by provider and by year. A total of 20 entities received grants during the five years covered by the dashboard, which was posted by the Maryland Office of Statewide Broadband. The 10 companies that were awarded the most money were

1. Talkie ($40.2 million, 32 projects);
2. Comcast (also $40.2 million, 28 projects);
3. Choptank Electric ($36.6 million, 9 projects);
4. CenturyLink, which sells service under the Spectrum brand ($27.4 million, 11 projects);
5. Shentel ($19.4 million, 4 projects);
6. Harford County/Think Big Networks LLC ($12.3 million, 4 projects);
7. Verizon ($11.1 million, 7 projects);
8. Easton Utilities ($10.5 million, 3 projects);
9. Charter Communications ($9.7 million, 2 projects); and
10. ThinkBig ($7.8 million, 35 projects).

A total of $239 million was granted on 178 projects during the five years covered by the dashboard.