Kyle Holley News Today

Santa Rosa announced a new $3.3 million state grant and are going after a $1.5 million county appropriation.

Santa Rosa and Escambia will receive nearly $3.2 million combined through Florida's Broadband Opportunity Grant Program.

Officials in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties are encouraging residents to validate the accuracy of the Federal Communications Commission’s new National Broadband Map, as local expansion plans move forward.

An FCC map shows 100% broadband coverage in Escambia and Santa Rosa, but no one believes thats true. The map will be used to fund broadband efforts.

Santa Rosa County is looking to use local and state funding to increase capacity at the East Milton AGRI-PLEX, including adding a new structure.

SRC staff are seeking a request for information on improving internet in Garcon Point area, the first project of the larger broadband expansion.

Stakeholders and residents in Santa Rosa County met for the first time this week to discuss the landscape and strategies over better internet access.

Officials spearheading local technology teams across Florida met this week to talk through the funding process and ways to build the teams.

Santa Rosa County staff want residents to take internet speed test next week. Local technology team is being curated, has first members brought on.

Santa Rosa County is planning to push an online event near the end of February which would ask everybody in the county to take a broadband speed test.