North Carolina Awards More Than $58M in Broadband Funding

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein (D) announced more than $58 million in Completing Access to Broadband program funding Wednesday. The latest round of funding, which comes from the American Rescue Plan, will connect 10,076 homes and businesses to fiber broadband services in 26 counties. Awards went to Brightspeed, whose projects span 15 of the 26 counties, as well as Spectrum, Windstream, ERC Broadband, Lumbee River Electric Membership Corp. and Zirrus.