[Lakegeezer]

Hub66 also runs fiber, but most of its business is fixed wireless. In M'boro, a few years ago, Hub66 dug a trench into a no-pole neighborhood that couldn't get cable. They lease the trunk fiber, then run their own fiber into the neighborhood and individual homes.

Fidium/Consolidated installs their fiber junction boxes in-line on the wire. The boxes mounted on the poles are owned by NH Broadband/NHEC.

Most of the broadband install activity over the past year was partly funded by the 2021 Federal infrastructure bill, managed through state agencies. In the case of Fidium and NH Broadband, both were funded to light up specific unserved addresses, then invested their own funds to expand to the rest of the towns where they got the grants. It has been a bit chaotic. There are new grants available to fund the remaining unserved, but we won't be able to identify those addresses till the dust settles, probably 2027. Hopefully, there will still be "finish it up" grants available then.