Michigan

Spectrum announced the expansion of its fiber broadband network to bring Spectrum Internet services to more than 1,000 additional homes and businesses in previously unserved or underserved areas of southeast Antrim County, including in the townships of Mancelona and Star. The expansion was funded in part by a Realizing Opportunity with Broadband Infrastructure Networks Broadband Grant, a joint effort between Spectrum and the Michigan High-Speed Internet Office to deliver high-speed internet to unserved communities. This project is supported, in whole or in part, by federal award number CPFF

Spectrum announced the expansion of its fiber broadband network to bring Spectrum Internet services to nearly 600 additional homes and businesses in previously unserved or underserved areas of Ionia County (MI), including Berlin, Boston, Easton, Ionia, Keene, Lyons, North Plains, Orange, and Ronald. The expansion was funded in part by a Realizing Opportunity with Broadband Infrastructure Networks Broadband Grant, a joint effort between Spectrum and the Michigan High-Speed Internet Office to deliver high-speed internet to unserved communities.

Mallory McMorrow, a Democrat running for Senate in Michigan, is laying down a marker on kids' online privacy and AI as her primary race heats up. McMorrow, a state senator who 

Brightspeed acquired Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) obligations and support in nine states on October 3, 2022, as part of the acquisition of Lumen Technologies' incumbent local exchange carrier subsidiaries in twenty states. Brightspeed committed to fulfilling those obligations in connection with the Wireline Competition Bureau’s approval of the transfer of control.

Under Commerce Secretary Lutnick’s leadership, our Benefit of the Bargain reforms restored the program to its statutory objective: universal connectivity delivered through competition, accountability, and respect for the law.  The result has been lower costs for taxpayers, real skin in the game for providers, and faster broadband access for consumers. States, freed from unlawful one-size-fits-all mandates, could evaluate projects on a granular basis and select those that truly fit their needs.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) joined the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity’s Michigan High Speed Internet Office (MIHI) in celebrating Michigan’s receipt of $920 million in federal funds to administer the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program and continue expanding high-speed internet access statewide -- the single largest investment in high-speed internet infrastructure in Michigan and the nation’s history.

A US Ignite Community recently reached two momentous milestones. Cleveland (OH) became the first major US city to deploy a full next-gen fixed wireless network through a local nonprofit, DigitalC. In just 18 months, DigitalC created and deployed the Cleveland Model—a customized network explicitly designed for Cleveland. Although tailored for Cleveland’s unique landscape, the engineers designed the model so that it could be a blueprint for other cities working to expand Internet connectivity.

The Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau denied Mercury Wireless Indiana, Mercury Wireless Kansas, and Mercury Broadband’s (collectively Mercury) request for waiver of the Commission’s rules, which governs the recovery of Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) support when recipients do not fulfill the program’s buildout requirements. The Bureau finds that Mercury did not demonstrate that good cause supports reducing the required support recovery for Mercury’s RDOF defaults in Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio. Mercury originated in Kansas and