March 4, 2010 (FinancialWire) — DeltaCom, Inc. (OTCBB: ITCD), a provider of integrated communications services to customers in the southeastern United States, said it has been awarded $9.4 million in federal stimulus funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the Broadband Technology Opportunity Program.

According to Deltacom, the grant will enable a 544-mile fiber-optic network expansion in Eastern Tennessee to provide middle mile broadband services to community anchor institutions and last mile service providers in speeds up to 10Gbps.

The network expansion project will add a new fiber-optic route to the Deltacom network from Chattanooga through Knoxville, to Johnson City and Bristol Tennessee and add interconnection points to an existing fiber-optic route between Nashville and Knoxville.

Alabama-based ITC^DeltaCom provides, through its operating subsidiaries, integrated telecommunications and technology services to businesses and other communications providers in the southeastern United States.

The company has a fiber optic network spanning around 12,161 route miles, and offers a suite of voice and data communications services, including local, long distance, broadband data, Internet connectivity, wireless voice and data services, and customer premise equipment.

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