Gov. Abbott Hails Charter's $1.3B Broadband Spend in Texas
Charter Communications plans to spend $1.3 billion to upgrade and expand broadband across Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said Thursday. “Texans who live across the big and beautiful reaches of our great state will have the same internet access that…
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those in big cities do,” Abbott said. Charter said in a separate news release that it plans to spend $700 million to upgrade its Texas network to provide symmetrical and multi-gigabit speeds. The project will be “substantially complete” by the end of 2025, it said. Also, the cable company will spend nearly $620 million to expand the network to about 140,000 unserved and underserved locations, Charter said.