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WASHINGTON<\/a>: Corning<\/a> Inc announced plans on Tuesday to build a new optical cable manufacturing plant in Arizona<\/a> as the U.S. government moves to award $42 billion to expand broadband<\/a> to millions of unserved Americans.
The factory in Gilbert, Arizona<\/a>, expected to open in 2024, will help supply AT&T, the largest U.S. fiber internet provider, the companies' chief executives said in a joint interview with Reuters.
Chief Executive Wendell Weeks said the factory was the latest in a series of investments the company has made in fiber and cable making totaling more than $500 million since 2020 to nearly double Corning<\/a>'s supply capacity and followed extensive talks with AT&T about its demand.
Weeks said the Arizona plant will employ about 250 people and is built to expand if demand warrants.
He said 5G wireless<\/a> networks, fiber deployment to households, cloud computing and the government's broadband<\/a> investment plans are driving rising fiber demand.
\"It's our job to step up to the demands of the nation,\" Weeks said.
The Arizona plant follows Corning's September 2021 announcement it would invest $150 million in optical cable manufacturing in North Carolina.
AT&T also said on Tuesday it would expand fiber-based broadband to more than 100,000 homes in Arizona's fast-growing areas of Mesa.
\"Ultimately everything is moving to one fiber-fed infrastructure to be able to deal with the demand equation,\" said AT&T CEO John Stankey, adding the trends are \"all rooted by massively increasing amount of consumption.\"
Stankey said traffic is expected to grow five times its current level over the next five years. \"There needs to be infrastructure to deal with that,\" Stankey said.
As part of a $1 trillion infrastructure bill passed in November 2021, Congress set aside $42.5 billion for grants for states to expand broadband infrastructure. There are 15 to 18 million U.S. households estimated to lack access to high-speed internet, according to government and industry<\/a> estimates.
The Federal Communications Commissions must still complete new maps detailing areas without internet and funding is not likely be released until 2023, officials say.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, who will join Stankey and Weeks on Tuesday in Arizona, told Reuters she had been meeting with telecom and manufacturing CEOs to ensure adequate capacity to expand broadband service.
She said the new Arizona plant is a \"win\" that will help produce fiber needed to extend internet while \"creating more high quality jobs.\"
The Commerce Department-led government broadband grant program includes \"Buy America\" provisions, which require those receiving grants to purchase U.S.-made products such as optical cables and transmission equipment, but also allows for waivers. It also \"prioritizes projects designed to provide fiber connectivity\"
\"We're going to be practical. Not everything will be made in America,\" Raimondo said. \"We are serious about Buy America -- as much as can be made in America should be made in America.\"
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康宁建立新的亚利桑那州光缆厂之前,美国的宽带
亚利桑那州吉尔伯特的工厂,将于2024年开放,将有助于提供美国电话电报公司,美国最大的纤维的互联网服务提供商,公司的首席执行官在一次联合记者采访。
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华盛顿:康宁. n:行情)周二宣布,计划建立一个新的光缆制造工厂亚利桑那州随着美国政府授予420亿美元扩大宽带美国数以百万计的供水。
吉尔伯特的工厂,亚利桑那州将于2024年开放,将帮助提供美国电话电报公司,美国最大的纤维的互联网服务提供商,公司的首席执行官们在一份联合路透访问时表示。
首席执行官温德尔·周说工厂是最新的一系列投资公司在光纤和电缆总计超过5亿美元自2020年以来近一倍康宁与美国电话电报公司(AT&T)的供应能力和遵循广泛的会谈对其需求。
周说,亚利桑那州的工厂将雇佣约250人,是建立扩大如果需求认股权证。
他说5 g无线网络、光纤部署到家庭、云计算和政府的宽带投资计划推动纤维需求上升。
“这是我们的工作加强国家的要求,”周说。
亚利桑那州的植物是康宁的2021年9月宣布将投资1.5亿美元在光缆制造在北卡罗莱纳。
美国电话电报公司(AT&T)周二表示,该公司将扩大光纤宽带接入也超过100000个家庭在亚利桑那州的台面快速增长的领域。
“最终一切都是搬到一个fiber-fed基础设施能够处理需求方程,”AT&T首席执行官约翰Stankey说,增加的趋势是“所有的通过大规模增加消费。”
Stankey说流量预计将增长5倍目前的水平在未来五年。“需要有基础设施来处理,“Stankey说。
作为一个1万亿美元的基础设施的一部分法案2021年11月,国会拨出425亿美元用于资助各州扩大宽带基础设施。估计有15到1800万美国家庭缺乏高速互联网,根据政府行业估计。
美国联邦通信委员会还必须完成新地图详细地区没有网络和资金不会被释放,直到2023年,官员说。
商务部长吉娜Raimondo,谁将加入Stankey和周星期二在亚利桑那州,告诉路透,她已经与电信和制造业ceo会议,确保足够的容量扩大宽带服务。
她说,亚利桑那州新工厂是一个“赢”,将有助于生产纤维需要扩展网络而“创造更多高质量的就业机会。”
宽带商务牵头的政府拨款计划包括“购买美货”的条款,要求那些接受赠款购买美国制造的产品,如光缆和传输设备,但也允许豁免。它也“重视项目旨在提供纤维连接”
“我们要实用。不是所有将在美国,”Raimondo说。"我们认真考虑购买美国一样,可以在美国应该在美国。”
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