A technology leader and community partner, FOCUS Broadband is the local broadband provider committed to enhancing the lives of residents and businesses by delivering the best high-speed internet connection and investing in the communities we proudly serve.
Through our next-generation 100% fiber optic network, we provide a variety of communication services designed for outstanding performance and excellent value, all backed by award-winning customer service. With more than 70 years of experience, we take pride in our reputation built on putting our customers first while supporting local communities, nonprofit organizations, educators and students to create meaningful, lasting impact where we live and serve. At FOCUS Broadband, we're FOCUSED on YOU!
FOCUS Broadband is dedicated to excellence in customer service and providing communications services that add value to the lives of our customers and the communities we serve.
Closing the Digital Divide, One Community at a Time
FOCUS Broadband was built to serve rural areas. To date, we have won more than $100 million in grant funds to build a fiber optic network capable of delivering multi-gig internet to underserved communities in eastern North Carolina. In addition, we have invested millions more by self-funding high-speed internet projects, which have impacted thousands of rural customers.
Learn more about the broadband grants we’ve received which have helped us bring high-speed internet to rural areas in North Carolina below.
2026
Recently, FOCUS Broadband was awarded approximately $1.65 million in Stop-Gap Solutions program funding from NCDIT. With this funding, FOCUS Broadband will extend high-speed internet service to additional underserved addresses in rural areas of Duplin and Pender counties.
2025
FOCUS Broadband was named a recipient of five Completing Access to Broadband (CAB) projects by NCDIT in 2025. These projects will connect a total of 777 underserved addresses in Brunswick, Columbus, Chowan, Perquimans and Pender counties to high-speed internet.
2024
FOCUS Broadband was awarded two Completing Access to Broadband (CAB) program projects by NCDIT in its first round of CAB awards in 2024. This CAB funding supported FOCUS Broadband in connecting an additional 800 addresses in Chowan and Perquimans counties to high-speed internet.
2023
FOCUS Broadband received two additional NCDIT Growing Rural Economies with Access to Technology (GREAT) Grants in 2023, totaling $7.2 million. These grants supplemented the 2022 GREAT Grants and supported the extension of FOCUS Broadband’s fiber optic network in Chowan and Perquimans counties, bringing high-speed internet access to more than 1,750 homes and businesses.
2022
In 2022, FOCUS Broadband was awarded approximately $54.6 million in funding through the NCDIT Growing Rural Economies with Access to Technology (GREAT) Grant and USDA ReConnect broadband programs. This funding helped expand high-speed internet service to more than 15,000 addresses across Columbus, Robeson, Duplin, Pender, Bladen, Hoke, Scotland, Chowan and Perquimans counties.
2021
In 2021, FOCUS Broadband received a $2.9 million USDA Community Connect Grant to deliver high-speed internet service to underserved addresses in the Robeson County communities of Howellsville, Tolarsville and Barker Ten Mile. With matching funds contributed by FOCUS Broadband, the project connected nearly 550 homes and businesses.
2020
FOCUS Broadband secured more than $59 million in state and federal broadband grant funding in 2020 to expand its 100% fiber optic network across southeastern North Carolina. Several NCDIT Growing Rural Economies with Access to Technology (GREAT) Grant awards and a USDA ReConnect Grant supported broadband expansion projects in rural areas of Pender, Duplin, Brunswick, Columbus, and Robeson counties.
2019
Receiving $11 million through the USDA ReConnect and NCDIT Growing Rural Economies with Access to Technology (GREAT) Grant broadband programs in 2019, FOCUS Broadband expanded its fiber optic network in Columbus County to serve more than 2,700 homes and businesses.
2010
Through a $12 million grant awarded in 2010 by the USDA’s Rural Utilities Service, FOCUS Broadband constructed a 100% fiber optic network in the Columbus County communities of Old Dock and Nakina to serve more than 2,000 homes and businesses with high-speed internet.
