Fairpoint Applies for $37M in Stimulus Funds
Posted by Jesse Ward on Monday, August 24, 2009 · 
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In an effort to bring broadband to unserved and underserved and areas in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, FairPoint Communications filed grant applications with the Broadband Initiatives Program and Broadband Technology Opportunity Program.
The regional telco submitted five applications totaling $37.8 million. In Maine, the service provider applied for grants of $9.8 million grant to improve service in its Aroostook County market and $5.9 million to upgrade its Washington County regions. In New Hampshire it applied for both a $9.4 million grant for its Coos County properties and $1.4 million in funding grant for its Grafton County regions. Finally, in Vermont FairPoint applied for a $7.3 million grant to expand service in the state’s Essex and Caledonia counties.
“The citizens and businesses throughout northern New England have been waiting a long time for an affordable broadband Internet connection. These grants would enable the building of the next-generation network to more rural and less populated areas where construction and deployment costs are very high – areas we are eager to serve,” said Peter Nixon, president of FairPoint.
FairPoint also applied for $900,000 and $1 million grants in its Missouri and Northern Florida markets respectively.
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