Brightspeed Awarded $213 million in Grants for 12 States

Brightspeed has been awarded more than $213 million in local, state, and federal grants to deploy fiber broadband networks in 12 states. In North Carolina—Brightspeed’s home state—the Department of Information Technology’s (NCDIT) Division of Broadband and Digital Equity Completing Access to Broadband (CAB) and the Growing Rural Economies with Access to Technology (GREAT) program will provide about $177 million to connect approximately 81,000 households. Brightspeed said it also was awarded $35.4 million in additional grants for deployment to 28,000 locations in Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin. These new Brightspeed awards add to the company’s commitment of more than $2 billion to provide high-speed networks to more than three million locations in 17 of the 20 states in its footprint.