My fiber service area is adjacent to some of the awarded locations, no other last mile fiber providers in that area. Curious what their plan is with that.
On Sat, Sep 27, 2025, 10:05 AM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > I saw that also. Has pretty much a placeholder website from last year > saying it is a consortium. > > > > Searching the Illinois Secy of State business registration database, the > only active entity with that name was registered in 2024 with an address of > 120 > W. LANE STREET, EQUALITY,IL > <https://www.google.com/maps/search/120+W.+LANE+STREET,+EQUALITY,IL?entry=gmail&source=g>. > A search on that address comes up with Shawnee Communications. Equality is > in middle of nowhere southern Illinois, about 50 miles east of Carbondale. > > > > Looking at the locations they were awarded, and given that the state > broadband office awarded the most difficult locations to Amazon Kuiper, my > guess would be these involve existing fiber ISPs building to areas adjacent > to their current footprint. Otherwise it makes no sense to me they would > bid on these dispersed locations and bid low enough to fall below the > threshold for LEO. > > > > Maybe some grant writing firm rounded up a bunch of small ISPs and offered > to create a consortium to bid for BEAD money. Focusing on areas they could > expand into for cheap if they got some govt money. > > > > Just my guess, probably wrong. > > > > *From:* AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Jason McKemie > *Sent:* Saturday, September 27, 2025 9:05 AM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> > *Subject:* [AFMUG] Strategic Management, LLC > > > > Anyone heard of these guys? They got a pretty big award for BEAD funding > for fiber here in Illinois. > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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