Broadband Equipment Placed on County Towers
[The following is an excerpt from an article in the Bedford Gazette published on August 26, 2021] Planning director Don Schwartz reported...
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Aug 20, 20212 min read
Partnership to Expand Reliable, High-Speed Internet Service
BEDFORD, Pa. - The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for reliable, high-speed broadband throughout the nation, and Bedford County...
Aug 19, 20212 min read
More broadband service coming to Bedford County
[Originally published in the Bedford Gazette, August 19, 2021] Bedford County and Alleghenies Broadband Inc. (ABI) are moving forward...
Jun 29, 20212 min read
City asked to reserve $5.8M for broadband
[Originally published in Altoona Mirror, June 30th, 2021] A nonprofit organization that is seeking to upgrade broadband in the region...
Jun 23, 20212 min read
Commissioners OK grant process
[Originally published in the Huntingdon Daily News on June 23, 2021] Huntingdon County Commissioners approved beginning the application...
Jun 14, 20215 min read
Bedford County eyes 95% broadband coverage by 2023
[Originally published in the Bedford Gazette, June 12, 2021] Bedford County on Friday launched its latest broadband initiative with a...
Jun 10, 20212 min read
Bedford County launches county-wide broadband initiative
[Originally Published by WTAJ-TV on June 11, 2021] BEDFORD COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) — A broadband initiative in Bedford County has officially...
Jun 9, 20212 min read
Commissioners talk broadband
[Originally published June 9th, 2021; Huntingdon Daily News] Huntingdon County Commissioners introduced an organization at Tuesday's...
Jun 2, 20212 min read
Blair to expand broadband access
Blair County leaders turning to Alleghenies Broadband to initiate & direct a major effort to expand/improve access to high speed internet.
May 13, 20212 min read
Nonprofit launches bid for broadband expansion
[Originally published in the Altoona Mirror, May 14, 2021] A nonprofit organization affiliated with the six-county Southern Alleghenies...
Apr 11, 20213 min read
‘There is just not service’: COVID-19 pandemic spurs internet expansion efforts in rural PA
[Originally published in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 12, 2021] As schools in the region shut down a year ago with the arrival of the...
Feb 28, 20213 min read
Westmoreland and other counties identify internet access as critical need, plan service expansion
[Originally published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Feb. 28, 2021] Eight counties in central and southwest Pennsylvania are banding...
Feb 2, 20211 min read
Broadband expands in Huntingdon County to 16 new sites
[Originally Published at WTAJ-TV on Feb. 2, 2021] HUNTINGDON COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) — Huntingdon County residents got to celebrate today...
Jan 14, 20213 min read
Statewide broadband expansion effort awarded $600K grant
Pennsylvania will see a coordinated statewide effort to expand high-speed internet access thanks to a $600,000 grant made possible by...
Oct 28, 20202 min read
Appalachian Regional Commission Awards Grant Funds for Statewide Broadband Initiative
The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) announced a grant of $600,000 to the North Central Pennsylvania Regional Planning and...
Oct 19, 20202 min read
Alleghenies Broadband: Connecting Communities with Reliable, High-Speed Internet Service
The Southern Alleghenies Planning and Development Commission (SAP&DC) is pleased to announce the formation of a new non-profit...
Sep 29, 20202 min read
County Looking at $3.2M Project to Expand Broadband Service
[Originally published by WTAJ-TV, Sept. 30, 2020] BLAIR COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) — The push for expanding rural broadband is growing in Blair...
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