Alabama Awards $53 Million for Middle-Mile

Alabama awarded $53.5 million to continue middle-mile broadband construction, announced Gov. Kay Ivey (R) on Tuesday. “This project will add approximately 1,095 miles of high-speed middle-mile broadband” reaching 24 Alabama counties, Ivey said. The grant was awarded to the Alabama Fiber network and comes from federal American Rescue Plan Act funds (see 2402050059).