Commerce's $277M grants

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Informative Administration (NTIA) awarded of 13 grants totaling more than $277M across 12 states, including Louisiana and Mississippi. The grants aim to expand broadband to unreached households through the Broadband Infrastructure Plan. The projects are designed to bring broadband to approximately 12,487 Mississippi households in ten counties. The grants were awarded to: Georgia, Guam, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, and West Virginia. More information on each of these grant projects is provided in the table below. The $29M Acadiana regional partnership for the deployment of a Fiber to the Home Network in the Rural Underserved Areas of Acadiana project is a last-mile broadband deployment in the Acadiana region of Louisiana that is designed to bring qualifying broadband to 22,196 unserved households across the region. Mississippi's Application for the $39.6M project is a last-mile and middle-mile broadband deployment across the state of Mississippi consisting of ten unique projects that are designed to bring qualifying broadband to a total of 12,487 unserved households across 10 counties. (Source:: SuperTalk Mississippi 02/5/22
$32M broadband grant awarded to Mississippi - SuperTalk Mississippi