NC Awards $30.8M in Federally Funded Broadband Grants

North Carolina awarded $30.8 million to expand broadband to 13,000 households and 582 businesses in 11 counties, Gov. Roy Cooper (D) said Monday. The state’s Department of Information Technology gave Growing Rural Economies with Access to Technology grants to Charter Communications, French Broad Electric Membership Corp., RiverStreet Networks, Windstream and Yadtel/Zirrus. The grants were funded by the federal American Rescue Plan Act. The department said it will share more details about applications and individual grant awards once it completes the review process and releases awards this month.