President Obama announced $780 million in grants and loans through the Departments of Commerce and Agriculture for funding sixty-six Recovery Act broadband projects nationwide, including 37 new projects in rural America. The funding has been matched by over $200 million in outside investment, for a total public-private investment of nearly $1 billion.
The announcement kicks off the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s second round of broadband funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act). For the 37 new rural projects, $390.9 million will be invested. An additional $21.9 millionin private investment will be provided, bringing the total funds invested for these rural to $412.7 million.
Funding is contingent upon the recipient meeting the terms of the loan, grant or loan/grant agreement. A list of recent Recovery Act broadband award recipients by state is below. Further detail on these projects is online
Alaska
Copper Valley Telephone Cooperative Incorporated; McCarthy Microwave Shot project.
Alabama
National Telephone of Alabama, Inc.; Cherokee Broadband Initiatives Project.
Arizona
Hopi Telecommunications, Inc.; HTI Jeddito Middle Mile/Last Mile Project.
San Carlos Apache Telecommunications Utility Inc.; San Carlos Apache Telecommunications, Inc. – Broadband Offering.
Arkansas
Northern Arkansas Telephone Company; Northern Arkansas Broadband.
Colorado
Nunn Telephone Company; Nunn Rural Broadband Project.
Georgia
Wilkes Telephone & Electric Company; Wilkes Telephone Company Fiber-to-the-Home Build-Out.
Darien Telephone Co., Inc.; Broadband Bridge to Sapelo Island.
Iowa
The Farmers’ Telephone Company of Riceville, Iowa; Farmers Telephone Company Fiber-to-the-Premises Overbuild.
Grand River Mutual Telephone Corporation; Grand River Mutual Fiber-to-the-Home Broadband Deployment Project.
Breda Telephone Corp.; Breda and Lidderdale Town and Rural Fiber-to-the-Premises Overbuild.
Iowa and Missouri
Grand River Mutual Telephone Corporation; Grand River Mutual Fiber-to-the-Home Broadband Deployment Project.
Illinois
Shawnee Telephone Company; Shawnee’s Fiber-to-the-Home Project: Focused Economic Revitalization & Sustainable Transformation of Southern IL.
Kansas
H & B Communications Inc.; FTTH – Rural Ellinwood & Claflin, Kansas.
South Central Wireless Inc.; South Central Wireless – Attica, Kansas Fiber-to-the-Premise.
Kentucky
Thacker-Grigsby Telephone Company, Incorporated; Breathitt County Broadband.
Minnesota
Federated Telephone Cooperative; Rural Appleton, MN.
Missouri
Grand River Mutual Telephone Corporation; Grand River Mutual Fiber-to-the-Home Broadband Deployment Project – Service Area 1.
Northeast Missouri Rural Telephone Company; Green City, MO Fiber-to-the-Premises.
Montana
Project Telephone Company; Scott St. Pryor Middle Mile.
Project Telephone Company; Crow Agency/Lodgegrass Fiber-to-the-Premise.
Nevada
Rural Telephone Company; North Fork, Tuscarora, and Jarbidge Service Area Broadband Service Implementation.
North Carolina
French Broad Electric Membership Corp.; French Broad Electric BPL Project.
North Carolina and Tennessee
Skyline Telephone Membership Corporation; High Country Fiber.
North Dakota
Consolidated Enterprises, Inc.; CEI Broadband Infrastructure Project.
S R T Communications Inc.; Fiber-to-the-Premise for the Rural North Dakota Community of Metigoshe.
Oklahoma
Pine Telephone Company, Inc.; Last Mile ILEC Fiber-to-the-Home for Isolated Rural Southeastern Oklahoma/Choctaw Nation.
South Dakota
TrioTel Communications, Inc.; TrioTel Fiber-to-the-Home Broadband Deployment Project.
Venture Communications Cooperative; Cresbard, Orient and Faulkton Exchanges.
Tennessee
Twin Lakes Telephone Cooperative Corporation; Twin Lakes Telephone Cooperative Corp.
Texas
Blossom Telephone Company; Red River Broadband Expansion Project.
Utah
Central Utah Telephone, Inc.; Basin Broadband Project.
West Virginia
Hardy Telecommunications, Inc.; Hardy OneNet Fiber to the Home Project.
Wisconsin
Marquette-Adams Telephone Cooperative, Inc.
Reedsburg Utility Commission, Inc; Reedsburg Utility Commission Fiber Network Expansion.
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