Frontier Communications received a $71.9 million grant July 9 from the Federal Communications Commission to assist with the installation of broadband infrastructure in some of the country’s more rural areas.
With the funding, the Stamford-based company has pledged to provide broadband service to roughly 93,000 additional households in 14 of the 27 states it serves.
The FCC provided the funds through its Connect America Fund, which was established to help provide broadband Internet service to the 18 million Americans who live in areas that currently have no access to broadband infrastructure.
Nationally, Frontier provides broadband service to nearly 80 percent of households in its territories. In the last two years, it has invested more than $1.5 billion into its rural networks across the U.S.
“The FCC”™s Connect America Fund offers Frontier additional resources to drive broadband penetration to rural markets that are hungry for access,” said Kathleen Quinn Abernathy, executive vice president of external affairs for Frontier Communications, in a statement. “The CAF program directly supports broadband infrastructure, a critical first step to offering services to the high-cost, rural parts of our nation.”
