The following year, it launched a grant program through the state’s general fund to support communities’ efforts to attract broadband development. To earn a state broadband grant, a project must have speeds of at least 100/25 with the capability to scale up over time to 100/100. Since 2014, nearly 120,000 locations have received state grant dollars. Nearly 76,000 homes and businesses could get what state officials consider satisfactorily high-speed broadband access through an infusion of state grants fueled by federal funding. “We’ve been very active in the border-to-border grant program to provide service in the past several years,” Schornack says.