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NC Awards $23.4M in Broadband Infrastructure Grants

The North Carolina Department of Information Technology’s Broadband Infrastructure Office awarded more than $23.4 million through its Growing Rural Economies with Access to Technology program, Gov. Roy Cooper (D) announced Monday (see 2009140034). Applications were scored based on the number…

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of households and businesses that would be served, a commitment to provide speeds of at least 100/20 Mbps scalable to 100 Mbps symmetrical by the end of 2026, and participation in the FCC's affordable connectivity program. Spectrum, Windstream and Brightspeed were among the winning applicants. The department is awarding the grants "on a rolling basis throughout July and August to expedite the distribution of all these critical funds," said NCDIT Secretary James Weaver.