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Monthly Roundtable
- June 4 at 2 p.m. — BDO Texas Broadband Community Roundtable (Teams)
Strengthening Texas Connectivity: $113 Million in Middle Mile Grants
The Broadband Development Office (BDO) has awarded more than $113 million through the Texas Middle Mile Program, marking a major step toward strengthening the state’s broadband backbone. Supported by the Texas Legislature’s 2023 allocation of $1.5 billion to the Broadband Infrastructure Fund, these grants focus on expanding high capacity, resilient middle-mile networks that enable last-mile providers to deliver reliable, high speed internet across Texas.
Selected projects led by the city of Brownsville, the Kerrville Public Utility Board, Reeves County and Zayo Group will bring hundreds of miles of new fiber to rural and underserved regions. Awardees will now move forward with finalizing agreements and permitting, with all projects expected to be complete by the end of 2028. These investments lay a stronger foundation for connectivity, affordability and statewide resiliency, bringing Texas closer to ensuring every resident has access to high speed internet.
Texas Regional Broadband Program Achieves Milestone
This month represents a major implementation milestone of the Texas Regional Broadband Program, with all Councils of Governments (COGs) now fully under contract, ensuring regional broadband planning coverage across all 254 Texas counties. With all participating regions moving into active implementation, communities across Texas are now positioned to begin or expand coordinated strategies focused on improving broadband access, affordability, adoption and digital opportunity.
As implementation progresses, regional engagement efforts will continue to ramp up, with COGs working closely alongside local governments, internet service providers, anchor institutions, community organizations and other stakeholders to assess broadband needs, strengthen digital readiness and identify region-specific opportunities.
Together, the coordinated statewide efforts of the Texas Association of Regional Councils, in partnership with the BDO, are helping build stronger regional capacity and ensuring communities across Texas are better prepared to address broadband and digital opportunity needs.
Workforce Program Spotlight: Wireless Infrastructure Association
Wireless Infrastructure Association (WIA) has partnered with the University of Houston to implement fiber-optic training courses across the metro area, including the main campus, in Sugar Land, Katy and a fourth location to be determined. The program’s first cohort will begin in the fall with a 65-hour class, and it will help ensure Texas has the workforce needed to complete Bringing Online Opportunities to Texas (BOOT) and Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) projects around the state. Learn more about the WIA workforce program.
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