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$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.
$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.
Congressional spending bill has provisions to help Hawaiʻi small businesses, tourism
The recently passed $1.7 trillion Fiscal Year 2023 Omnibus Appropriations bill includes several initiatives to strengthen Hawaiʻi’s dominant tourism and small business economies and assist Hawai’i workers with their retirements.
