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Ethos Broadband connects rural Chimayo
New Mexico’s Workplace of Broadband Entry and Growth (OBAE) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony alongside Ethos Broadband this week, celebrating the completion of Ethos’ mounted wi-fi entry (FWA) deployment within the rural group of Chimayo, situated in Rio Arriba County. The undertaking was awarded a $1.3 million Scholar Join grant from the state in February 2025 to deploy the mounted wi-fi community, which now delivers service to 173 rural pupil households within the Española Public Faculty district. Based on a press launch, linked pupil households will obtain broadband connectivity without charge for 3 years. Ethos Broadband, an Albuquerque, New Mexico-based ISP, is an working division of Sacred Wind Enterprises, which was acquired by Commnet Broadband – a subsidiary of ATN Worldwide – in 2022.
TWN connects Hidalgo County college students
In one other Scholar Join undertaking launched in New Mexico this month, Transworld Join (TWN Communications) launched a hard and fast wi-fi community connecting 395 rural pupil households within the Lordsburg Municipal Faculties District, situated in Hidalgo County. The undertaking acquired a $1.5 million Scholar Join grant, awarded in November 2025.
WOW expands in South Carolina
WideOpenWest (WOW) introduced this week that its fiber broadband community will attain greater than 10,000 extra properties and companies in Greenville County, South Carolina. Based on the corporate, this newest enlargement will see WOW attain 20,000 properties and companies throughout Greenville County by fall 2026. WOW was taken personal in 2025 through a $1.5 billion transaction accomplished by DigitalBridge Group and Crestview Companions.
Shentel wraps one other VATI undertaking
Shenandoah Telecommunications Firm – or Shentel – accomplished work on a undertaking to attach greater than 4,100 unserved properties in Campbell County, Virginia. Shentel was awarded $20 million from the state through the Virginia Telecommunications Initiative (VATI), with extra funding supplied from the county and Shentel’s personal funding.
Comcast involves Leon County, Florida
Comcast mentioned work is underway to attach rural Leon County, Florida, with 100 beforehand unserved properties and companies now ready to hook up with the operator’s Xfinity community. Development is ongoing and can proceed all through the summer season to in the end join 3,200 extra places within the county. Comcast acquired grant funding from the state’s Broadband Alternative Program for this undertaking, which covers the Leon County communities of Blocker, Harmony, Felkel, Gardner, Lutterloh, Meridan, Miccosukee, Wadesboro and Woodville.
Spectrum connects extra rural counties
Constitution’s Spectrum launched companies in additional rural counties in Indiana and Missouri. That features 3,100 properties and companies in Wayne County, Indiana; 4,000 properties and companies in Harrison County, Indiana; and 530 properties and companies in Blackford County, Indiana. Over in Missouri, Spectrum launched companies for two,900 households in Bollinger County, in and across the areas of Marble Hill and Sedgewickville. Spectrum additionally launched companies to greater than 1,400 extra properties and companies in St. Genevieve County, Missouri, together with places close to St. Mary, Bloomsdale, New Offenburg, Weingarten and Avon. In St. Francois County, Missouri, Spectrum linked 2,300 extra properties and companies in places close to Farmington, Bismark and French Village. Spectrum’s multi-year building initiative has partial help from the FCC’s Rural Digital Alternative Fund (RDOF) and state subsidies alongside the corporate’s $7 billion funding.
Empire expands in Steuben County, New York
Empire Fiber Web (a.ok.a, Empire Entry) not too long ago introduced the completion of its fiber enlargement undertaking in Steuben County, New York. The undertaking, which acquired roughly $8 million in state grant funding, allotted from the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), now connects greater than 2,000 properties all through Avoca, Birdseye Hole, Caton, Hornby, Howard and Savona, bringing Empire Fiber’s attain throughout Steuben County to 30,000. Empire Entry is majority-owned by Antin Infrastructure Companions, a personal fairness agency.
Wire 3 progresses in Lake County, Florida
Florida’s Wire 3 introduced its fiber community is dwell for properties and companies in preliminary building areas of Mount Dora, Florida. The area is a part of Wire 3’s broader $150 million buildout in Lake County, the place it is also working to attach the communities of Clermont, Eustis, Minneola and Tavares, and in Leesburg, the place Wire 3 mentioned it launched companies in April. Wire 3 is funded by mixed investments through Guggenheim Investments and from Oak Hill Capital, which joined Wire 3 as a majority investor in 2024.
