A $12.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce will expand high-speed internet infrastructure from Chattanooga to Atlanta and will impact eight counties in Georgia, including Chattooga County.
According to information released by the Biden-Harris Administration on Monday, “The purpose of this project is to provide West and Northwest Georgia with critical middle mile broadband access by building a 185-mile fiber route that passes through eight counties between Chattanooga, Tennessee; Bremen, Georgia; and Atlanta, Georgia. The West and Northwest Georgia areas associated with the proposed route and service footprint currently have no known commercially available dark fiber service offerings. The proposed fiber network will significantly reduce future backhaul transport costs associated with bringing broadband from the main peering hubs and locations to the rural end users and provide over 140 interconnection splicing points for access”.
Dovetel Communications (dba SyncGlobal Telecomm) will get $12,234,350 through the Enabling Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure Program. It will help offset the cost of the company’s $32 million project aimed at expanding the regional network.
Plans are to build a 185-mile fiber route that passes through eight counties between Chattanooga and Atlanta: Polk, Floyd, Chattooga, Douglas, Carroll, Haralson, Walker, and Fulton.
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