MORGANTOWN – Just over four years after the Monongalia County Commission took its first official step toward county-wide broadband access, homes are coming online. During an update as part of Wednesday’s commission meeting, Commissioner Sean Sikora said he recently toured a portion of ...
West Virginia can now start drawing down the $1.2 billion — yes, that is “billion” with a “b” — in Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program dollars. The federal funds are a big piece of the Biden administration’s “Internet for All” initiative, and of the three ...
West Virginia is among the first three states to be approved to start accessing millions of federal dollars for broadband expansion. The upshot is West Virginia can soon begin drawing down $1.2 billion to deploy high-speed internet networks for a region where connectivity has been an ...
MORGANTOWN – Sen Shelley Moore Capito and Gov. Jim Justice joined with National Telecommunications and Information Administration Administrator Alan Davidson on Friday to celebrate the $1.2 billion coming to West Virginia to extend broadband coverage across the state. “Today, the ...
MORGANTOWN – Sen. Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito separately announced on Monday that the state will receive more than $1.2 billion to deploy broadband across the state. The money is part of $42.45 billion the Biden administration announced to expand broadband coverage across the ...
You may remember that when the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed, it allotted millions of dollars to expanding broadband access to unserved and underserved areas. Those dollars are set to be allocated to the states in June 2023, based on the Federal Communications Commission’s ...