#National Telecommunications and Information Administration

$72M in federal funds to expand high-speed internet access to Native Hawaiian homes

The funding will be used to deploy internet infrastructure and adopt projects to connect unserved households throughout the state to high-speed internet service, providing essential resources to fully participate in the digital economy.

‘Our generation’s big infrastructure moment’: Feds push ‘Pay’ on $149.5M to get Hawai‘i 100% internet connected

The funds come from the Internet for All initiative, which provides a total of $65 billion from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to expand high-speed internet accees in communities throughout the United States. On the Big Island, that includes 7,970 unserved and 295 underserved homes and businesses.

Senator: Hawai‘i set to receive nearly $150 million to expand high-speed internet access

The new funding from the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program will be used to help build and improve broadband infrastructure across Hawai‘i.

$87 million fiber broadband infrastructure project to be launched by Hawaiian Telcom

Hawaiian Telcom was the only Hawaiʻi recipient of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration grant, which invests in building regional networks that connect to national Internet networks.