Brightspeed

I forget what they changed their name to now.

Is it BrightSpeed? BrightSpeed? CenturyLink changed their name to something else.

Tried to fool us into forgetting what a terrible service they had.

Yeah, I don't know.

Fried rice and fried shrimp.

Man, have y'all ever heard of the internet company Brightspeed?

Yeah.

If I ever find out where this corporate location is, boy, the damage I'm going to fucking do to this building.

Especially when they fucking rip it up and just don't give a fucking leave.

Yeah.

You know that Brightspeed paid a $500 fine for whatever this caused.

It doesn't affect you at all.

The Arkansas State Broadband Office has disbursed the first batch of funding through the state's Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployments program, or BEAD.

The total funding was $2.6 million to Brightspeed, an internet service provider headquartered in North Carolina.

Brightspeed plans to connect more than 13,000 homes across 25 counties in the state.

In a press release, the director of the state broadband office, Glenn Howie, says the funding approach is for providers to complete the work, demonstrate they have met the required milestone, and then they will receive the funding.

Howie says that model protects taxpayers, creates accountability, and keeps the focus on providing high-speed internet to Arkansans who still need it.

BEAD awards require a twenty-five percent match from providers.

Recipients in this round include Frontier Communications, Brightspeed, Verizon Pennsylvania, and Verizon North, along with regional carriers and local development groups.

Each project needs at least a twenty-five percent cost share, and eligible costs reach past cable to planning, design and engineering, personnel, and network software.

In one award, Verizon will receive twenty-eight point eighty-five million dollars and put in forty million dollars of its own to reach nearly three thousand homes and businesses in Centre and Mifflin counties.