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USDA Provides Funding for Rural Broadband Projects

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griculture Secretary Tom Vil-

sack in July announced $85.8

million in funding to strengthen

access to high speed broadband for rural

America. Below is a summary of the

loans and grants in the announcement.

Telecommunications Loans:

In Minnesota, a $12.63 million loan

to Garden Valley Telephone will in-

clude fiber and electronics upgrades to

improve the system for rural subscrib-

ers. Consolidated Telephone will use a

$12.27 million loan to provide greater

bandwidth to subscribers, allowing de-

livery of enhanced services with network

upgrades, infrastructure additions, and

add a new fiber ring.

South Carolina’s FTC Communications

will use a $12.38 million loan to upgrade

its wireless telecommunications network

to 4G/LTE, meeting growing demand for

reliable, higher speed services.

In Montana, Triangle Telephone Coop-

erative Association will use a $29.95 mil-

lion loan to upgrade its system with fiber

to supply greater bandwidth to increase

speed and the quality of service for their

rural Montana subscribers.

In Wisconsin, LaValle Telephone

Cooperative will use $7.61 million to

deploy fiber and replace a switch to

provide rural subscribers with improved

services, including voice over Internet

Protocol and the flexibility to connect to

Gigabit Ethernet and IP interfaces.

Community Connect Grants:

In Alaska, the Arctic Slope Telephone

Association Cooperative, Inc. will receive

a $1.4 million grant to provide Point

Hope subscribers with high-speed Inter-

net service and prepare the network for

an undersea fiber connection currently

planned for construction within the next

two years.

Minnesota’s Northeast Service Co-

operative (NESC) will receive two $3

million grants for two projects to provide

broadband service to subscribers on

the Fond du Lac Reservation. NESC will

partner with the Fond du Lac Band of

Superior Chippewa.

Oklahoma’s @Link Services will

receive a grant of nearly $1.5 million to

provide high-speed broadband to homes,

businesses and critical community facili-

ties in parts of Seminole County.

Virginia’s Scott County Telephone

Cooperative will receive $2.1 million to

build a broadband network with one

gigabyte of bandwidth for 540 locations

in Dickenson County. This project is

expected to benefit Edwards Ridge and

the surrounding area by promoting eco-

nomic development through improved

broadband access.