ConnectALL Launches BEAD Program To Reach More Than 58,000 Homes and Businesses Statewide

Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY), along with US Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and US Representative Paul Tonko (D-NY), announced that ConnectALL has begun implementation of a $542 million effort to bring affordable, reliable, high-speed internet service to 58,617 unserved and underserved homes and businesses in largely rural districts statewide as part of the federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program. This historic undertaking targets the final one percent of documented locations that remain unserved or underserved across New York State and is the result of a multi-year process. The effort moves forward alongside New York's Affordable Broadband Act’s (ABA), first-in-the-nation legal protections for low-cost internet service that guarantee affordable options for more than 3 million estimated households statewide. The ABA requires internet service providers to offer qualifying low-income households broadband service at $15 per month for 25 Mbps service or $20 for 200 Mbps service. Next steps include submitting provisional awards for state and federal environmental review.

Awardees are:

• $23,728,734 to Archtop Fiber, LLC with a $30,057,586 match and $1,000,000 state match to serve 1,638 locations in four counties (Columbia, Dutchess, Orange and Sullivan) with fiber optic technology.
• $121,177,268 to CBN America, LLC with a $40,392,423 match to serve 3,087 locations in seven counties (Chenango, Delaware, Madison, Oswego, Otsego, Schuyler, and Yates) and Shinnecock Reservation with fiber optic technology, as well as 18,098 locations in 29 counties (Allegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chemung, Cortland, Delaware, Erie, Genesee, Jefferson, Lewis, Livingston, Monroe, Nassau, Niagara, Oneida, Onondaga, Ontario, Orleans, Oswego, Saratoga, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Suffolk, Tioga, Tompkins, Wayne and Yates) and Onondaga Reservation with fixed wireless technology.
• $13,273,290 to Citizens Telecommunications Company of New York, Inc. with a $6,303,834 match to serve 1,014 locations in Chenango County with fiber optic technology.
• $5,454,547 to Fidium Enterprise Services, Inc. with a $3,594,633 match to serve 1,083 locations in three counties (Chautauqua, Columbia and Rensselaer) with fiber optic technology.
• $12,709,615 to IBT Group USA, LLC with a $4,236,538 match to serve 5,478 locations in nine counties (Chenango, Delaware, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Montgomery, Oneida, Otsego, and Schoharie) and the Oneida Indian Reservation with fixed wireless technology.
• $11,437,665 to Reasnor Telephone Company, LLC with a $3,812,555 match to serve 795 locations in Dutchess County with fiber optic technology.
• $22,300,500 to Space Exploration Technologies Corp. with a $20,426,074 match to serve 14,877 locations in 37 counties (Albany, Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Chemung, Chenango, Clinton, Columbia, Dutchess, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Greene, Hamilton, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Livingston, Montgomery, Oneida, Orange, Oswego, Otsego, Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, St. Lawrence, Suffolk, Sullivan, Tioga, Warren, Washington, Westchester, and Wyoming) and two Tribal Reservations (Allegany Reservation and Oneida Indian Reservation) with low Earth orbit satellite technology.
• $21,038,640 to Spectrum Northeast, LLC with a $4,123,251 match and a $6,000,000 state match to serve 2,919 locations in Chautauqua County and Tuscarora Nation with fiber optic technology.
• $56,120,006 to Verizon New York, Inc. with a $135,241,523 match to serve 4,016 locations in 13 counties (Albany, Clinton, Erie, Essex, Fulton, Montgomery, Oneida, Oswego, Rensselaer, Schenectady, Sullivan, Ulster, and Washington) and the Tonawanda Reservation with fiber optic technology.