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State broadband official outlines federal programs, maps hundreds of Caswell locations for funding
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Jeff Brooks of the North Carolina Department of Information Technology briefed the joint Caswell County boards on federal and state broadband programs, reported 2,301 state-funded locations in Caswell and identified roughly 200–270 additional addresses slated for current awards, and warned of tradeoffs between fiber and satellite options.
Jeff Brooks of the North Carolina Department of Information Technology told a joint meeting of the Caswell County Board of Commissioners and the Board of Education on Jan. 13 that federal and state broadband programs are driving a large wave of rural deployment in the state and that Caswell County has received significant, but incomplete, coverage awards.
Brooks said the way funding is distributed has shifted from census-block estimates to address-level determinations and described major federal programs that have shaped recent work, including the Regional Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) and USDA Reconnect, and the federal BEAD effort. He said states and the federal government now classify service on a per-address basis: if an address can obtain the program standard (most recently moving toward 100 megabits per…
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