Spectrum announced that its expansion into East Texas will continue with $186 million from the FCC’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, according to a news release.
More than 5,000 homes and businesses will be connected with this deployment in Cass County, which has about 30,000 residents. Its county seat is Linden, and this connection will be adjacent to multiple Spectrum projects.
“Today we’re celebrating significant advancements to bring high-speed Internet to unserved Cass County homes and businesses in partnership with Spectrum and community stakeholders — this is a win for the county’s most rural areas,” said Cass County Judge Travis Ransom last week.
The work will start in the fall and should be complete by 2025.
Spectrum, part of Charter Communications, has announced several deployments as part of the effort to connect rural Texans to high-speed fiber.
Last year, Charter released a statement that said it would take high-speed broadband to more than 50 Texas counties with its own money, federal and local government funds. Titus, Franklin, Red River and Hopkins counties have been part of the East Texas expansion; Camp, Morris and Wood counties will be connected.
The counties fall into what the Texas Broadband Development Office has labeled the Upper East Region of the state.
Cass County Next Up for Broadband Expansion
The rural East Texas county is set to receive Spectrum high-speed Internet as part of the company’s statewide build-out.
Charter Communications
