Hawaiian Telcom To Receive More Than $26 Million in CAF Phase II Support
Hawaiian Telcom was awarded more than $4 million annually in Connect America Fund Phase II support from the FCC for six years -- a total of more than $26 million -- to expand rural broadband, the company said Wednesday in…
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a news release. This follows recent announcements by FairPoint Communications (see 1508190014) and CenturyLink (see 1508140052), which said they also planned to accept CAF funds. Hawaiian Telcom said it plans to use the CAF Phase II support to deploy 10 Mbps download and 1 Mbps upload broadband to more than 11,000 unserved locations primarily on the neighbor islands. The company previously used CAF Phase 1 support to deploy broadband to more than 500 locations on Hawaii Island and is working to deploy high-speed broadband to 1,300 additional locations, it said.