Focus Broadband Completes North Carolina Fiber Project That Received State Funding

Focus Broadband has completed the final stages of a project in Brunswick County (NC). Residents and businesses in the communities of Northwest and Sandy Creek now can access gigabit speed service. Focus Broadband was awarded $1.4 million to provide high-speed Internet to more than 1,000 addresses in Brunswick County in North Carolina’s special supplementary round of the Growing Rural Economies through Access to Technology (GREAT) program. The program is administered by the state’s Department of Information Technology (DIT). “This was the first time we were able to secure grant funding for unserved portions of Brunswick County that fell outside of our cooperative service area,” Focus Broadband CEO Keith Holden said.