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New Mexico gets even more money from the USDA after receiving $10.8 million from the NTIA for broadband infrastructure. USDA Rural Utilities Service Administrator Jonathan Adelstein announced the funding of a Recovery Act broadband infrastructure project in northern New Mexico. The lucky winner is the Kit Carson Electric Cooperative Fiber-to-the-Home project whose goal is to deliver affordable broadband service to 29 communities comprised of approximately 20,500 households, 3,600 businesses and 183 critical community institutions, two Native American Pueblos within a…

New Mexico has received $10.6 million from the NTIA (Commerce Department) as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.  The grant to the North Central New Mexico Economic Development District will fund the deployment of high-speed Internet infrastructure across the counties of Rio Arriba, Los Alamos, and northern Santa Fe, and to five Native American tribal communities.

The project plans to directly connect more than 120 community anchor institutions to broadband service – including public safety facilities, K-12 schools, community…

The NTIA has awarded a $28.6 million BTOP grant to Allegiance Communications to deploy a new fiber optic network over 680 miles in Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. The project intends to directly connect more than 70 community anchor institutions to the broadband network, including city halls, police stations, fire stations, libraries, schools, and a hospital.

Allegiance Communications’ network will cover 12,700 households and 230 businesses in the four-state region. It will be the first time wireline broadband service faster than…