2025 Impact Report
MCA's 2025 Impact Report is here! Since 2021, MCA has improved or established connectivity for over 135,000 homes and businesses, leveraging nearly $300 million in state and federal funding. Read our 2025 Impact Report to see progress we've made this past year.
MCA's Comprehensive Connectivity Strategy
In order to meet MCA’s statutory goals, our comprehensive connectivity strategy includes programs, initiatives, and outreach that enable accessibility, affordability, and adoption of reliable, high-speed internet. ​​​Ensuring this access will empower Maine’s people and communities to connect beyond our borders and build pathways of opportunity to realize the economic, educational, health, social, civic, and cultural benefits that connectivity delivers.
We invite internet service providers, contractors, subject matter experts, corporate leaderships, institutions of higher education, and financial institutions to commit to ongoing collaboration and investment. Our reliance on digital infrastructure, services, and skills will only continue to increase.
Progress To Date
Since 2021, MCA has improved or established connectivity for over 135,000 homes and businesses in Maine. As of December 2024, everyone in Maine has an option for internet connectivity, or plan in place to be served. Over the next four years, MCA will continue upgrading slow or unreliable connections, help people get the skills to meaningfully use those connections, and invest in infrastructure to meet Maine's future connectivity needs.
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With the functional integration of the ConnectMaine Authority (CME) and Maine Connectivity Authority (MCA) in 2021, nearly $300 million in public funds have been invested into internet connectivity in Maine, matched by more than $200 million in private funds.
In 2026, MCA will:
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Deploy $48 million in BEAD Program funds to connect the remaining 22,000 locations in Maine that have less than 100/20 Mbps in internet speeds.
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Continue construction on MOOSE Net, a middle-mile, open-access fiber "highway" that will provide an essential backbone network for Maine.​
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Ensure that everyone in Maine has the skills, devices, and technical support to meaningfully use the internet through our digital opportunity programming.
Through MCA's various programs and strategies, internet service in improving across the State. Every six months, the Federal Communications Commission updates service availability data from reports directly from internet service providers where construction has been completed, and MCA knows through our own investments that additional improvements are underway.
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Beyond the BEAD Program, MCA will continue to focus on improving service for locations with adequate, but not modern internet service (between 100/20 and 100/100 Mbps).
Service classification based on V1-V6 FCC Broadband Data Collection.
Served (100/100 Mbps)
Underserved (<100/100 Mbps, >100/20Mbps)
Unserved (<100/20 Mbps)
Upcoming Meetings
The Maine Connectivity Authority Board of Directors and committee meetings are open to the public in a virtual format. Meetings serve as an opportunity to learn about MCA's strategy and activities as well as funding and partnership opportunities.
Click here to join upcoming meetings and watch recordings of previous meetings.
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