New York Awards $15.5 Million for Broadband Infrastructure
New York will distribute $15.5 million in mobile service and broadband infrastructure awards and open new grant application windows on broadband solutions, Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced in a release Monday. “Reliable mobile service is vital to New York’s economy…
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and critical to driving innovation, jobs and opportunity statewide,” Hochul said in the release. The awards are for $5.2 million to expand mobile service in New York’s Nassau, Otsego, Schenectady and Warren counties, over $10 million in awards for municipal infrastructure in Alleghany County, and $320,000 for affordable housing connectivity in Broome County, the release said. The new requests for applications announced in the release are for a $5 million grant for innovative methods to lower the costs of fiber installation, $5 million to support business models that prioritize low income and rural connectivity, and $5 million to assist local government broadband and digital equity projects.