The Rural Utilities Service announced 126 projects valued at $1.2 billion in broadband stimulus funding on August 4. Small rural telcos were big winners with many DSL and fiber-based projects among the winners.
There were some newer companies among the winners as well, including Utopian Wireless, who won nearly $8 million to construct wireless networks in 10 markets across six states. And Vtel Wireless won a significant award — $116.8 million – for an LTE network throughout Vermont and part of New York and New Hampshire.
The project winning the highest dollar amount in this announcement was West Kentucky Rural Telephone Cooperative Corporation, which won $123.8 million, just about 10% of the entire award announcement, for a fiber-to-the-home network in West Kentucky and West Tennessee.
A complete list of winners is available here.
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Categories: Broadband Stimulus, RUS
