BIP Round2 Infrastructure Application Directory

Rural Development
United States Department of Agriculture
Rural Utilities Service

Broadband Initiatives Program
Round Two Application Directory
Last Mile and Middle Mile

Infrastructure Applications
Issue Date: April 16, 2010

Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP)
Round 2 Infrastructure Application Directory
Important Notes
This directory includes applicant information for all 776 BIP Last Mile and Middle Mile
Infrastructure applications received during Round 2, each on a separate page within this
PDF.
Please note that applications are sorted alphabetically by the applicant’s state of
incorporation, then by applicant name.
An applicant’s proposed project area(s) can be located:
1) Within the applicant’s state of incorporation;

2) Outside the applicant’s state of incorporation; or,
3) In multiple states.
In any case, each application is only listed once within this directory.
For instance, Butler Telephone Company, Inc., found on page 1 of this directory, is
incorporated in the state of Alabama, and therefore listed in this directory in the
Alabama section. However, Butler’s application is proposing to serve portions of both
the states of Alabama and Mississippi, but is only listed under Alabama, Butler’s state
of incorporation.
If you are interested in searching for applications which include proposed project area(s)
within a specific state, you can use the Find or Search functions both located under the
Edit menu in Adobe Acrobat.
Broadband USA
Application Directory
Alabama
Applicant: BUTLER TELEPHONE COMPANY INC
Application ID: 5487
Contact: TIMOTHY W. ULRICH
(608) 6644114
gra@tdstelecom.com
Project Title: Butler Telephone Company, Inc.: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Program: Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP)
Proposed Project Area: Alabama, Mississippi
Project Type: Last Mile
Funding Round: Winter 2010 Broadband Initiatives Program
Grant Request: $4,588,540.00
Loan Request: $0.00
Other Funding: $1,529,513.00
Status: Application Received
Description: Butler Telephone Company, Inc., a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring high
speed DSL broadband service to unserved establishments within its rural service territory, which is
comparable to the DSL service provided in its more populated areas. The network is also
engineered so that it can be easily upgraded at a reasonable cost to meet future needs.
Public Notice Response:
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Broadband USA
Applicant: DIXIELAND INTERNET SERVICE, INC.
Contact: CHRIS ROBERTS
(205) 4878187
chris@dlis.net
Project Title: Vina
Proposed Project Area: Alabama
Grant Request: $157,370.00
Loan Request: $157,370.00
Other Funding: $0.00
Description: The City of Vina and the surrounding areas has no broadband access, we will be providing high
speed access to Vina and the surrounding areas. By providing this service we will create jobs and
help to bring industry into this rural area.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BROADBAND ELECTRIC COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Contact: SCOTT E LEE
(256) 4561421
scott.lee@ibec.net
Project Title: IBEC SERVICE AREA 25
Proposed Project Area: Wisconsin
Loan Request: $14,267,367.00
Description: IBEC BPL Highspeed Broadband Services in cooperation with AdamsColumbia EC,Central
Wisconsin EC, Oconto EC. Offering service to more than 51,900 homes, businesses and Critical
Community Institutions, that are unserved or without High Speed.
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Broadband USA
(256) 4561421
scott.lee@ibec.net
Proposed Project Area: Texas
Loan Request: $16,292,277.00
Description: IBEC BPL Highspeed Broadband Services in cooperation with , United Cooperative Services.
Offering service to more than 59,500 homes, businesses and Critical Community Institutions, that
are unserved or without High Speed.
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Broadband USA
(256) 4561421
scott.lee@ibec.net
Proposed Project Area: New York
Loan Request: $4,215,043.00
Description: IBEC BPL Highspeed Broadband Services in cooperation with Steuben Rural Electric
Cooperative, Otsego Electric Cooperative, Inc., OneidaMadison Electric Cooperative. Offering
service to more than 12,200 homes, businesses and Critical Community Institutions, that are
unserved or without High Speed.
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Broadband USA
(256) 4561421
scott.lee@ibec.net
Proposed Project Area: Michigan
Loan Request: $24,970,092.00
Description: IBEC BPL Highspeed Broadband Services in cooperation with Great Lakes Energy. Offering
service to more than 103,800 homes, businesses and Critical Community Institutions, that are
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Broadband USA
(256) 4561421
scott.lee@ibec.net
Description: IBEC BPL Highspeed Broadband Services in cooperation with Wiregrass Electric Cooperative.
Offering service to more than 15,900 homes, businesses and Critical Community Institutions, that
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Broadband USA
(256) 4561421
scott.lee@ibec.net
Proposed Project Area: Kentucky
Description: IBEC BPL Highspeed Broadband Services in cooperation with Jackson Purchase EC. Offering
service to more than 22,600 homes. Businesses and critical Community Institutions, that are
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Broadband USA
(256) 4561421
scott.lee@ibec.net
Proposed Project Area: Illinois, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
Loan Request: $22,423,985.00
Description: IBEC BPL Highspeed Broadband Services in cooperation with Prentiss County Electric Power
Association, Roanoke EC, Southwest Tennessee EMC, and Southwestern EC. Offering service to
more than 98,300 homes, businesses and Critical Community Institutions, that are unserved or
without High Speed.
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Broadband USA
(256) 4561421
scott.lee@ibec.net
Proposed Project Area: Arkansas
Loan Request: $16,764,585.00
Description: IBEC BPL Highspeed Broadband Services in cooperation with First ECC. Offering service to
more than 68,700 homes. Businesses and critical Community Institutions, that are unserved or
without High Speed.
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Broadband USA
(256) 4561421
scott.lee@ibec.net
Loan Request: $23,575,086.00
Description: IBEC BPL Highspeed Broadband Services in cooperation with Baldwin EMC, Franklin EC, Joe
Wheeler EmC, Pioneer EC. Offering service to more than 119,600 homes. Businesses and critical
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Broadband USA
(256) 4561421
scott.lee@ibec.net
Proposed Project Area: Louisiana, Mississippi
Description: IBEC BPL Highspeed Broadband Services in cooperation with Washington St. Tammany EC.
Offering service to more than 49,950 homes. Businesses and critical Community Institutions, that
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Broadband USA
(256) 4561421
scott.lee@ibec.net
Proposed Project Area: North Carolina, Tennessee
Loan Request: $29,419,892.00
Description: IBEC BPL Highspeed Broadband Services in cooperation with MeriwetherLewis EC, Mountain
EC , and Volunteer EC. Offering service to more than 141,200 homes. Businesses and critical
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Broadband USA
Applicant: NORTH ALABAMA ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE
Contact: WILLIAM SELBY
(256) 4372286
wselby@naecoop.com
Project Title: North Alabama Remote Rural Broadband Economic Development Initiative
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: North Alabama Electric Cooperative seeks to provide high speed broadband service to a remote
rural unserved and underserved area of Northern Alabama.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: PINE BELT CELLULAR, INC.
Contact: JOHN C. NETTLES
(334) 3852106
john@pinebelt.net
Project Title: Black Belt Region Mobile Broadband Access Improvement
Description: Alabamaâ€™s Black Belt region is culturally rich and historically significant but also one of the
poorest and more economically depressed areas of the United States. With this project, Pine Belt
Cellular, Inc., a locally owned and operated FCClicensed commercial mobile radiotelephone
service carrier, will deliver the kind of mobile broadband infrastructure and services that are
increasingly expected among residents, businesses and critical community organizations. The
mobile broadband project will serve almost 40,000 residents and travelers within the rural portions
of much of Choctaw, Dallas, Marengo, Perry and Wilcox counties. This lastmile project will reach
more than 20,000 previously unserved premises with new EVDObased mobile broadband
services at bandwidths up to 4.5 mbps up/down while providing essential improvements and
expansion to the 1xRTT network in place today.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: PINE BELT TELEPHONE CO INC
Contact: JOHN C. NETTLES
(334) 3852106
john@pinebelt.net
Project Title: Black Belt Region Broadband Access Improvement
Other Funding: $293,990.00
Description: Alabamaâ€™s Black Belt region is culturally rich and historically significant but also one of the
poorest and more economically depressed areas of the United States. With this project, Pine Belt
Telephone, Inc., a locally owned and operated incumbent local exchange carrier, will deliver the
kind of broadband infrastructure and services necessary for improving the economic, educational
and healthcare opportunities of more than 12,000 rural Black Belt residents, businesses, and
critical community organizations. This lastmile project (including middlemile enhancements) will:
a) deliver high speed services via new fibertothehome; b) upgrade and expand highspeed DSL
services where fiber is not yet appropriate; c) replace older microwave bottlenecks with â€œfuture
proofâ€ highcapacity fiber; and d) extend the network to lower Internet interconnection costs.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: TOMBIGBEE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE
Contact: LUKE BOZEMAN
(205) 4683325
lbozeman@tombigbee.net
Project Title: Northwest Alabama Fiber Optic
Project Type: Middle Mile
Description: Project Description Build out of a â€˜managedâ€™ fiber optic network throughout Lamar & Marion
Counties consisting of approximately 45 miles of 48 pair fiber optic cabling. This network will
provide access to high speed bandwidth to unserved and underserved areas of rural West
Alabama.
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Broadband USA
Alaska
Applicant: ALASCONNECT, INC.
Contact: KOMA FENTON
(907) 4585810
koma.fenton@alasconnect.com
Project Title: AC Wireless Expansion to Delta Junction
Proposed Project Area: Alaska
Description: The proposed project consists of obtaining materials and building infrastructure for the purpose of
offering wireless broadband Internet services to the population of Delta Junction. These Internet
services will extend to Fort Greely, Deltana, and Big Delta. A population of up to 4,000 within
these rural areas will have access to broadband Internet through this project.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: BBN INC
Contact: KATIE HENSON
(907) 7455363
katy@yukontel.com
Project Title: Coming of Age
Description: â€œComing of Ageâ€ , a project which addresses the fundamental problem with communications
in remote Alaska by providing a modern terrestrial alternative to the oligopolistic third world
satellite system currently in place. Tanana and Manley Hot Springs, Alaska will be connected into
the Alaska fiber backbone in Nenana, Alaska by a high capacity long haul carrier class microwave
system.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: COPPER VALLEY TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE INCORPORATED
Contact: DAVE DENGEL
(907) 8357701
ddengel@cvtc.org
Project Title: McCarthy Microwave Shot
Description: The proposed middle mile project will extend terrestrial wireless broadband connectivity to
McCarthy, AK. McCarthy is a remote rural community where CVW's parent, Copper Valley Tel.
Coop., is the serving LEC. The project will allow CVTC to transition from a low bandwidth capacity
satellite link to the proposed high capacity terrestrial microwave middle mile service in an area that
has no terrestrial connections to outside networks. Currently, all communications into & out of
McCarthy utilize earth orbiting satellites. This middle mile project will allow broadband services to
be brought to households, businesses and key community organizations that are currently
unserved, creating the potential for increased business growth, public services, public safety, &
quality of life for the residents of McCarthy. The applicant also proposes to leverage an ARRA
award as detailed in the application.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: CORDOVA TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE INC
Contact: PAUL KELLY
(907) 4243109
paul@ctcak.net
Project Title: Cordova LTE Network
Description: The Cordova Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (CTC) in Cordova Alaska respectfully requests grant
and loan funds to build out last mile wireless facilities to all of its populated and certificated service
area. These funds will be used to build LTE, 4th generation wireless facilities at currently owned
locations and 2 new locations that are in the preliminary design and permitting phase. This build
out will effectively cover and provide a full array of data services to all residents of Cordova and
the Copper River fishing fleet, while fishing the world renowned Copper River Flats for wild King
and Red salmon.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: RIVADA SEA LION
Contact: DESIREE N PFEFFER
(907) 6467361
DNPfeffer@mcccpa.com
Project Title: Service Aimed Broadband Rural Expansion (SABRE) Phase II
Loan Request: $17,901,096.00
Description: The Service Aimed Broadband Rural Expansion (SABRE) Phase II project is a direct
enhancement of an approved USDA ARRA RUS Round 1 Grant called SABRE (Phase I). This
project leverages infrastructure put in place in Round 1 and now dramatically expands rural
broadband service to impoverished rural areas of Southeast, Northwest and Central Alaska.
SABRE Phase II will deliver low cost, high speed broadband and Public Safety interoperability to
communities where commercial industry has not developed adequate internet service. The project
will dramatically enhance service to individual households, community centers, schools, medical
clinics and Public Safety organizations. SABRE Phase II is a model application for providing
inexpensive rural broadband service nationwide using a unique combination of wireless
technologies.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: SUPERVISION, INC.
Contact: KATIE HENSON
(907) 7455363
katy@yukontel.com
Project Title: Blazing Bandwidth
Description: The â€œBlazing Bandwidthâ€ project addresses the limitations of the existing last mile cable
transport infrastructure and cable modem system in Whittier, Alaska. Both these existing systems
are running at capacity and unable to deliver broadband. This project upgrades the existing
infrastructure so that the system can provide broadband service today and meet the needs and
demands of tomorrowâ€™s customers.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: TANADGUSIX CORPORATION
Contact: STEVE SUMIDA
(907) 2782312
steve.sumida@tanadgusix.com
Project Title: St. Paul Island, AK â€“ Last Mile Broadband Access Project
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: This project will replace copper wire plant with a fiberoptic plant and backbone that will bring
broadband internet to the community for the first time. The project will provide 186 premises with
100M capacity fiber to the home from a 10Gig capacity ring backbone. TDX operates its own earth
station satellite link.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: UNITED UTILITIES, INC.
Contact: GREG CHAPADOS
(907) 3170090
gchapados@gci.com
Project Title: TERRANW: Terrestrial Broadband in Northwest Alaska
Loan Request: $46,377,107.00
Description: TERRANorthwest will deliver endtoend middle mile terrestrial broadband service from the
Internet backbone in Anchorage to the to almost 4000 households and 300 businesses in 20 rural
Tribal communities scattered across more than 80000 sq. mi. in the Norton Sound and Kotzebue
Sound regions of Alaska. Linked to the RUSfunded TERRASW network, TERRANW will close a
backbone â€œringâ€ that will provide improved network reliability for all of Western Alaska by
utilizing a GCI contributed fiber connection to Anchorage. This project is sustainable from
inception, and will establish a multigenerational communication solution for this vast area. It will
expand communications options for all users; support private/public economic development
efforts; improve crucial telemedicine and distance learning services; and enhance the operations
of governments, tribes, and nonprofits.
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Broadband USA
American Samoa
Applicant: AMERICAN SAMOA TELECOMMUNICATIONS AUTHORITY
Contact: ALEKI SENE
(684) 6331121
astca_counsel@samoatelco.com
Project Title: South Pacific Hub Project (SPHP)
Proposed Project Area: Hawaii
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Advancing the objectives of the Recovery Act, the South Pacific Hub Project (SPHP) will construct
a 2,800 milelong middle mile submarine cable system stretching the Pacific Ocean from the State
of Hawaii to the remote and rural islands of American Samoa, a US territory and the only US soil
south of the equator, to provide necessary backhaul capacity in order to spur industry and jobs in
both the Territory's weakening economy as well as the USmainland based submarine cable
industry.
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Arizona
Applicant: ACCIPITER COMMUNICATIONS INCORPORATED
Contact: PATRICK SHERRILL
(623) 4554500
psherrill@teamzona.com
Project Title: FTTH and wireless broadband serving rural communities in central Arizona
Proposed Project Area: Arizona
Loan Request: $11,825,767.00
Description: Fibertothehome and wireless last mile infrastructure to serve the following rural Arizona
Communities: Wittmann, Circle City, Morristown, portions of Wickenburg, Congress, Yarnell,
Peeples Valley, Wilhoit, Kirkland, Skull Valley, Tonopah, Arlington, and Wintersburg.
Approximately 8,900 households and businesses will be passed by this project once it is
completed.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: ACCIPITER COMMUNICATIONS INCORPORATED
Contact: PATRICK SHERRILL
(623) 4554500
psherrill@teamzona.com
Project Title: Fiberoptic middle mile in rural central Arizona
Other Funding: ($55,881.00)
Description: This project requests middle mile funding for fiberoptic facilities to link the rural Arizona
communities of Skull Valley/Kirkland, Wilhoit, Peeples Valley, and Aguila with the communictions
network in Prescott.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: BEAMSPEED, LLC
Contact: PHILIP C MERRILL
(602) 3151120
philipcmerrill@commspeed.net
Project Title: BeamSpeed Rural Expansion Project
Proposed Project Area: Arizona, California
Description: Beamspeed proposes to bring affordable, highquality broadband service via fixed wireless
technology to our proposed service area which lacks adequate, comprehensive and affordable
coverage outside of select suburban areas. The system design will employ the latest in WiMAX
802.16e technology
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Broadband USA
Applicant: COMM SPEED ARIZONA, L.L.C.
Contact: PHILIP C MERRILL
(602) 3151120
philipcmerrill@commspeed.net
Project Title: CommSpeed Rural Expansion Project
Proposed Project Area: Illinois
Description: Commspeed, one of the largest wireless ISPs in the United States and an industry pioneer,
proposes to bring full mobile WiMAX broadband service to a largely rural service area that
includes some of the hottest, driest, and most beautiful areas in this nation.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: HOPI TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC.
Contact: CARROLL ONSAE
(928) 5228428
az517@ncom.com
Project Title: HTI Jeddito Middle Mile/Last Mile project
Description: Hopi Telecommunications, Inc. (HTI) proposes a project to build out infrastructure and provide
necessary equipment to establish the fiberoptic connection between HTI and the world. To
achieve this HTI proposes to build 61 miles of fiber optics between the community of Jeddito in
their service area and the Frontier Communications pointofpresence (POP) in Holbrook, AZ. In
addition to this fiber buildout, HTI proposes a last mile component that would provide broadband
services to currently unserved subscribers around the community of Jeddito and Spider Mound.
HTI proposes to serve these subscribers utilizing wireless pointtomultipoint WiMAX access
equipment. As the middle mile component is the predominant part of the proposed system, this
project is classified as Middle Mile Project.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: HUALAPAI TRIBAL COUNCIL
Contact: GREG TEDESCO
(925) 9972117
greg@nacom.us
Project Title: Hualpai Tribal Communications System
Description: The communications system to be installed with this application will provide high speed internet
access and voice services with a network solution built on a fixed wireless platform using the
WiMAX standard (802.16d).
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Broadband USA
Applicant: J.C. CULLEN, INC.
Contact: KELLY E CULLEN
(928) 7744621
kelly@nilesradio.com
Project Title: Northern Arizona Data/Internet Network Extension (NADINE)
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: This is a Middle Mile project providing 300Mbps capacity service to the Havasupai Reservation
and two scientific research facilities. The backhaul consists of licensed microwaves radios with
hot standby units. The project includes a monitoring system located at our existing operation
center and the utilization of five of our existing mountain top communications sites for backhaul
repeater locations.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: LAST MILE COMMUNICATIONS
Contact: PATRICK LEO MILLETTE
(480) 2269336
pat@wydebeam.com
Project Title: Tonopah AZ
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Wireless nework buildout for Tonopah, Wintersburg area
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Broadband USA
Applicant: NEXT LEVEL SOLUTIONS, INC.
Contact: TY JOHNSON
(480) 9985060 x109
tjohnson@nxlevel.net
Project Title: Yakama Nation Broadband
Proposed Project Area: Washington
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The Yakama Nation requires a broadband network to strengthen the vitality of the community's
infrastructure, support a more cost effective delivery of tribal services, and promote sustainable
economic development opportunities. The proposed network system will be a terrestrial fixed
wireless network for residential and commercial use as well as a terrestrial mobile system for
public safety.
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Broadband USA
Contact: TY JOHNSON
(480) 9985060 x109
Project Title: Colorado River Indian Broadband
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The Colorado River Indian Tribe requires a broadband network to strengthen the vitality of the
community's infrastructure, support a more cost effective delivery of tribal services, and promote
sustainable economic development opportunities. The proposed network system will be a
terrestrial fixed wireless network for residential and commercial use as well as a terrestrial mobile
system for public safety.
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Broadband USA
Contact: TY JOHNSON
(480) 9985060 x109
Project Title: White Mountain Apache Broadband
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The White Mountain Apache Tribe requires a broadband network to strengthen the vitality of the
community's infrastructure, support a more cost effective delivery of tribal services, and promote
sustainable economic development opportunities. The proposed network system will be a
terrestrial fixed wireless network for residential and commercial use as well as a terrestrial mobile
system for public safety.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: PASCUA YAQUI TRIBE
Contact: SHANNA TAUTOLO
(520) 8796322
stautolo@pascuayaquinsn.gov
Project Title: Pascua Yaqui Broadband Initiative
Description: Provide broadband upgrades to all educational, health, security,administrative and medical
facilities throughout the Pascua Yaqui Reservation(s). Broadband Initiatives will introduce long
range planning, designed to ehance future adds, moves and changes to the community, educate
information technologies departments in the proper creation and use of records for the broadband
network and provide accessability to all community and enrolled tribal members with respect to
broadband services offered such as: Employment, Library search applications, Community
intranet and other high speed electonic social services offered by other communities throughout
the nation and internationally.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: SAN CARLOS APACHE TELECOMMUNICATIONS UTILITY INC
Contact: SHIRLEY ORTIZ
(928) 4757094
az512@ncom.com
Project Title: San Carlos Apache Telecommunications, Inc. Broadband Offering
Description: San Carlos Apache Telecommunications, Inc. (SCATUI) is proposing to provide fiber to the
premise (FTTP) services to two areas within their serving areas on the San Carlos Apache
Reservation in Arizona. In the Bylas PFSA, residents are being required to relocate their homes to
a different area due to uncontrollable circumstances. This grant is crucial in providing these
customers with broadband internet and phone service which SCATUI would not be able to provide
otherwise. Within the San Carlos service area, SCATUI is planning to provide FTTP services to
five new communities, a hospital, and multiple doctor facilities that are currently unserved. In
addition, SCATUI is proposing to build five new tower sites to provide broadband internet service
for residents and emergency service personnel to very remote areas of the reservation that are
unserved.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: SIMPLY BITS, L.L.C.
Contact: MICHAEL E. BERNSTEIN
(520) 5450402
mikeb@simplybits.com
Project Title: Rural County S Arizona Rural Broadband Expansion
Description: Expand an existing wide area wireless Point to Multipoint Fixed Wireless and Fiber fed network for
the cities and towns that are unserved in Rural Southern Arizona. Simply Bits has and is bringing
highspeed broadband service to unserved areas and providing quality highspeed Internet
connections. Were helping to facilitate telemedicine and emergency services and increase
access to information for education, public safety, and communication for residential and
commerical entinties.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: SMITH BAGLEY, INC.
Contact: GAYLE GOUKER
(928) 5370690
ggouker@cellularoneaz.com
Project Title: Mobile Broadband Access to Rural Areas in Arizona: Hopi Tribal Lands
Description: SBI is proposing to construct a mobile broadband network in the unserved areas of the Hopi
reservation. This area is a part of Coconino and Navajo counties, both of which are listed as
persistent poverty counties and represent some of the most geographically and economically
difficult area to service in the country. The proposed network will be based on the IHSPA
technology and will migrate to LTE as the necessary equipment becomes commercially available.
SBI proposes to offer a range of services based on the use of handsets, computer air cards, and
wireless routers that will initially provide service at 5 â€“ 10 Mbps (downlinks) and will provide
faster speeds as LTE is implemented. This project will provide service to 933 households that are
currently unserved, and will do so for a cost of $2263.68/HH ($1965 per premises passed, for the
total of the PFSA and nonfunded areas).
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Broadband USA
(928) 5370690
Project Title: Mobile Broadband Access to Rural Areas In AZ, NM, and CO, including Navajo Tribal Lands
Proposed Project Area: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah
Description: SBI is proposing to construct a mobile broadband network in a portion of the Navajo nation &in
nontribal rural areas in Navajo, Apache, & Coconino counties in Arizona, McKinley & San Juan
counties in New Mexico, and Dolores, LaPlata, Montezuma, & San Juan counties in Colorado.
71% of the PFSA is currently unserved. Apache, Navajo, & Coconino counties in Arizona, and
McKinley & San Juan counties in New Mexico, are listed as persistent poverty counties. The
proposed network will be based on the IHSPA technology & will migrate to LTE. SBI proposes to
offer a range of services that will initially provide service at 5â€“10 Mbps (downlinks) and will
provide faster speeds as LTE is implemented. This project will provide service to 76920
households (70%+ of which are currently unserved) at a cost of $423/HH ($338per premises
passed).
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Broadband USA
(928) 5370690
Project Title: Mobile Broadband Access to Rural Areas in Arizona: White Mountain Apache Tribal Lands
Description: SBI is proposing to construct a mobile broadband network in a portion of the White Mountain
Apache reservation; 42% of the PFSA is currently unserved. This area is a part of Apache and
Navajo counties, both of which are listed as persistent poverty counties and represent some of the
most geographically and economically difficult area to service in the country. The proposed
network will be based on the IHSPA technology and will migrate to LTE as the necessary
equipment becomes commercially available. SBI proposes to offer a range of services based on
the use of handsets, computer air cards, and wireless routers that will initially provide service at 5 â
€“ 10 Mbps (downlinks) and will provide faster speeds as LTE is implemented. This project will
provide service to 2310 households (many of which are currently unserved), and will do so for a
cost of $400.16/HH ($357 per premises passed).
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Broadband USA
Applicant: TABLE TOP TELEPHONE COMPANY, INC
Contact: JOHN HAYES
(520) 3875600
jhayes@tabletoptelephone.com
Project Title: Table Top FibertotheHome Broadband Deployment Project
Description: The Table Top FibertotheHome Broadband Deployment Project will provide high speed Internet
service in the communities of Ajo and Bagdad, Arizona, and their surrounding rural areas via a
fibertothehome network. This network will provide service to 2,316 households and 357
businesses in Pima and Yavapai Counties.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: TOHONO O\'ODHAM UTILITY AUTHORITY
Contact: CHARLES WIESE
(918) 6880463
dan.carter@mgieng.com
Project Title: Tohono Oâ€™odham Last Mile FTTH and Broadband Wireless Network
Description: Tohono Oâ€™odham will provide fiber to the home (FTTH) and broadband wireless "hotspot"
capabilities further enhancing the existing broadband base and creating job opportunities within
the Tribal area. This LastMile project is synergistic with the recently awarded MiddleMile project
(easygrants ID 1767). Both the MiddleMile project and this LastMile project are integral parts of
the total broadband solution for the TOUA area. The MiddleMile grant allows TOUA to build a
strong highspeed transport network that will interconnect all LastMile nodes proposed in this Last
Mile application. This project will economically extend broadband services to nearly all the last
mile sections within the entire Tohono Oâ€™odham reservation. TOUA will also offer broadband
wireless services to 50+ predominately rural areas with only dial up services today.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: VALLEY CONNECTIONS, L.L.C.
Contact: KEVIN FEWELL
(520) 3848903
kevin.fewell@vtc.net
Project Title: Willcox Rural FTTH Extension
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Project will extend the current serving area existing within the city limits of Willcox, Arizona to the
adjacent rural area outside the city limits. The project will provide Fiber to the Home (FTTH)
service to approximately 512 households and 10 businesses currently unserved with high speed
access. The project consists of an area approximately eight square miles located North and West
of the city limits. The project will deploy active FTTH technology that will provide up to 400Mbps of
bandwidth and the Internet, Video, Phone and Long Distance services currently provided within
the city limits will be provided to the project area.
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Broadband USA
Arkansas
Applicant: COMPUTER WORKS OF ARKANSAS, INC, THE
Contact: MANDY HOLMES
(501) 3299144
mholmes@tcworks.com
Project Title: North Central Arkansas Broadband Expansion
Description: Expansion of existing Wireless Broadband infrastructure and network to include over 5000 miles
of rural North Central Arkansas.
Page 47 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: FOUNDATION TELECOMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Contact: GEORGE A LIVERGOOD
(479) 6368997
lhunt@ftionline.com
Project Title: Broadband for Remote & Rural Missouri Communities
Proposed Project Area: Missouri
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Our company proposes to install a turnkey wireless internet system to eight small and rural
communities across three counties in Missouri. This service would allow the residents, students,
city, county, and state employees within the areas access to the high speed internet that they
have long been denied due to their remoteness. Our system will not only provide high speed
internet, it will be a â€œgreen projectâ€ in that the remote broadband Internet gateway is solar
powered, with backup commercial power in the event of prolonged periods without solar support.
In addition to the projects energy savings, it is 100% capable of integration with future terrestrial
internet services, and provide a valuable back up internet, as well as emergency communications
when needed.
Page 48 of 776
Broadband USA
(479) 6368997
lhunt@ftionline.com
Project Title: Broadband for Remote & Rural Kentucky Communities
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Our company proposes to install a turnkey wireless internet system to 5 rural and remote
communities across Harlan and Letcher counties in Kentucky. This service would allow the
residents, students, city, county, and state employees within the areas access to the high speed
internet that they have long been denied due to their remoteness. Our system will not only provide
high speed internet, it will be a â€œgreen projectâ€ in that the remote broadband Internet
gateway is solar powered, with backup commercial power in the event of prolonged periods
without solar support. In addition to the projects energy savings, it is 100% capable of integration
with future terrestrial internet services, and provide a valuable back up internet, as well as
emergency communications when needed.
Page 49 of 776
Broadband USA
(479) 6368997
lhunt@ftionline.com
Project Title: Broadband for Remote & Rural Kansas Communities
Proposed Project Area: Kansas
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Our company proposes to install a turnkey wireless internet system to six small and rural
communities across four counties in Kansas. This service would allow the residents, students, city,
county, and state employees within the areas access to the high speed internet that they have
long been denied due to their remoteness. Our system will not only provide high speed internet, it
will be a â€œgreen projectâ€ in that the remote broadband Internet gateway is solar powered,
with backup commercial power in the event of prolonged periods without solar support. In addition
to the projects energy savings, it is 100% capable of integration with future terrestrial internet
services, and provide a valuable back up internet, as well as emergency communications when
needed.
Page 50 of 776
Broadband USA
(479) 6368997
lhunt@ftionline.com
Project Title: Broadband for Remote & Rural Arkansas Communities
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Our company proposes to install a turnkey wireless Internet system to 12 small and rural
communities across 8 counties within Arkansas. This service would allow the residents, students,
city, county, and state employees within the areas access to the high speed Internet that they
have long been denied due to their remoteness. Our system will not only provide high speed
Internet, it will be a â€œgreen projectâ€ in that the remote broadband Internet gateway is solar
powered, with backup commercial power in the event of prolonged periods without solar support.
In addition to the projects energy savings, it is 100% capable of integration with future terrestrial
Internet services, and provides a valuable back up Internet as well as emergency communications
when needed.
Page 51 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: NORTHERN ARKANSAS TELEPHONE COMPANY
Contact: DENISE RUSSELL
(509) 2382961
drussell@natconet.com
Project Title: Northern Arkansas Broadband
Description: Northern Arkansas Telephone Company,Inc. will substantially expand the provision of advanced
fibertothehome (FTTH) and ADSL2+ services via a fiber optic network with combined speeds
exceeding 20 mbps to households, local businesses and anchor institutions in Marion and Boone
Counties in rural, north central Arkansas.
Page 52 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: WINDSTREAM CORPORATION
Contact: JAMES THOMAS MEISTER
(501) 7485619
james.t.meister@windstream.com
Project Title: Windstream Sugar Land, Inc.
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Windstream provides digital phone, highspeed Internet and highdefinition video and
entertainment services to residential and business customers. In many of the rural areas
Windstream serves, the cost of broadband deployment is prohibitive. The proposed project will
allow Windstream to extend its broadband network to provide broadband to many currently
unserved homes and businesses. Windstream will extend broadband service using the same
architecture, equipment vendors, technologies, processes, and procedures that it uses to provide
broadband service to over 1 million current customers. Windstream proposes to use industry
standard ADSL2+ (Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line) protocols that will allow customers to
enjoy broadband at speeds of up to 12 Mpbs. The project will bring broadband to 1,250 homes
and 139 businesses that otherwise may never enjoy the benefits of broadband.
Page 53 of 776
Broadband USA
(501) 7485619
Project Title: Windstream Concord Telephone, Inc
Proposed Project Area: North Carolina
Loan Request: $0.00
Page 54 of 776
Broadband USA
(501) 7485619
Project Title: Windstream North Carolina, Inc
Loan Request: $0.00
Page 55 of 776
Broadband USA
(501) 7485619
Project Title: Windstream Ohio, Inc.
Proposed Project Area: Ohio
Loan Request: $0.00
Page 56 of 776
Broadband USA
(501) 7485619
Project Title: Windstream Pennsylvania, LLC
Proposed Project Area: Ohio, Pennsylvania
Loan Request: $0.00
and 1,700 businesses that otherwise may never enjoy the benefits of broadband.
Page 57 of 776
Broadband USA
(501) 7485619
Project Title: Windstream Western Reserve, Inc
Proposed Project Area: Ohio, West Virginia
Loan Request: $0.00
Page 58 of 776
Broadband USA
(501) 7485619
Project Title: Oklahoma Windstream, LLC
Proposed Project Area: Oklahoma
Loan Request: $0.00
Page 59 of 776
Broadband USA
(501) 7485619
Project Title: Windstream Oklahoma, LLC
Loan Request: $0.00
enjoy broadband at speeds of up to 12 Mpbs. The project will bring broadband to 960 homes and
22 businesses that otherwise may never enjoy the benefits of broadband.
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Broadband USA
(501) 7485619
Project Title: Windstream New York, Inc 26
Proposed Project Area: New York, Pennsylvania
Loan Request: $0.00
Page 61 of 776
Broadband USA
(501) 7485619
Project Title: Windstream South Carolina, LLC
Proposed Project Area: South Carolina
Loan Request: $0.00
Page 62 of 776
Broadband USA
(501) 7485619
Project Title: Texas Windstream, Inc.
Loan Request: $0.00
Page 63 of 776
Broadband USA
(501) 7485619
Project Title: Valor Telecommunications of Texas 200
Loan Request: $0.00
Page 64 of 776
Broadband USA
(501) 7485619
Project Title: Windstream Alabama, LLC
Loan Request: $0.00
enjoy broadband at speeds of up to 12 Mpbs. The project will bring broadband to 150 homes that
otherwise may never enjoy the benefits of broadband.
Page 65 of 776
Broadband USA
(501) 7485619
Proposed Project Area: New Mexico
Loan Request: $0.00
and 56 businesses that otherwise may never enjoy the benefits of broadband
Page 66 of 776
Broadband USA
(501) 7485619
Project Title: Windstream Arkansas, LLC
Loan Request: $0.00
Page 67 of 776
Broadband USA
(501) 7485619
Proposed Project Area: Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas
Loan Request: $0.00
Page 68 of 776
Broadband USA
(501) 7485619
Project Title: Windstream Missouri, Inc.
Proposed Project Area: Arkansas, Missouri
Loan Request: $0.00
Page 69 of 776
Broadband USA
(501) 7485619
Project Title: Windstream Georgia, LLC
Proposed Project Area: Florida, Georgia
Loan Request: $0.00
Page 70 of 776
Broadband USA
(501) 7485619
Project Title: Windstream Florida, Inc
Loan Request: $0.00
Page 71 of 776
Broadband USA
(501) 7485619
Project Title: Windstream Georgia Telephone, LLC
Proposed Project Area: Georgia
Loan Request: $0.00
Page 72 of 776
Broadband USA
(501) 7485619
Loan Request: $0.00
Page 73 of 776
Broadband USA
(501) 7485619
Project Title: Windstream Georgia Communications, LLC
Loan Request: $0.00
Page 74 of 776
Broadband USA
(501) 7485619
Project Title: Georgia Windstream LLC
Proposed Project Area: Georgia, North Carolina
Loan Request: $0.00
Page 75 of 776
Broadband USA
(501) 7485619
Project Title: Windstream Kentucky West, LLC
Loan Request: $0.00
that otherwise may never enjoy the benefits of broadband.
Page 76 of 776
Broadband USA
(501) 7485619
Project Title: Windstream Kentucky East, LLC 220
Loan Request: $0.00
Page 77 of 776
Broadband USA
(501) 7485619
Project Title: Windstream Kentucky East, LLC 219
Proposed Project Area: Kentucky, Tennessee
Loan Request: $0.00
Page 78 of 776
Broadband USA
(501) 7485619
Project Title: Windstream Mississippi, LLC
Proposed Project Area: Mississippi
Loan Request: $0.00
Page 79 of 776
Broadband USA
(501) 7485619
Project Title: Windstream Nebraska, Inc
Proposed Project Area: Nebraska
Loan Request: $0.00
Page 80 of 776
Broadband USA
(501) 7485619
Project Title: Windstream Standard, LLC
Loan Request: $0.00
Page 81 of 776
Broadband USA
(501) 7485619
Project Title: Windstream New York, Inc 46
Loan Request: $0.00
Page 82 of 776
Broadband USA
California
Applicant: AMERICA 2.0, INC.
Contact: MIKE MATHIESEN
(831) 4200107
america2inc@gmail.com
Project Title: Wireless Broadband for East San Diego County
Proposed Project Area: California
Description: Proposed project is to build a high speed wireless broadband consumer Internet service, including
VOIP, for the unserved and underserved rural communities of E. San Diego County, CA. This
project will provide broadband access to approximately 10,000 households and later up to 25,000
households, local businesses and anchor institutions in these communities serviced by more than
1 Gigabit Bandwidth transmission to the area ramping up to 10 Gbs. This project will also provide
BroadBand service to hundreds of community institutions, public safety entities, schools, local
government agencies and critical care facilities in the service area.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: AZTECH CABLE COMPANY, LLC
Contact: JOHN BRANDON HOOVER
(928) 5770100
jbhoover@aztechcomm.com
Project Title: Aztech GreenSKY
Description: Aztech Cable, LLC is proposing to construct roughly 45 miles of fiber optic cable and purchase
equipment to deliver advanced Wireless and Wired broadband services to 11,474 total
households, 540 businesses, and 79 anchor institutions in remote northern Arizona, and
California. Aztech Cable will provide IPTV service along with voice and broadband capabilities.
We will be required to hire approximately 12 new employees to start and anticipate 10 more
needed with the growth of the company. Our project successfully meets the objectives specified in
the NOFA. Our cost to distribute these services is slightly over $800 per customer; this is
extremely cheap considering the level of services they will be getting. This technology using
WiMAX to deliver wireless IPTV, VOIP and Broadband Services, is cutting edge and unique to the
world.
Page 84 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: CALORE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Contact: EDWARD B ORMSBEE
(530) 3972211
edorm@cot.net
Project Title: North Siskiyou Wireless Broadband
Description: To provide wireless broadband services in north central Siskiyou County, California to a
predominantly unserved rural area. Entry level wireless bandwidth speed will be up to 1Mbps
down and 512Kbps up, with maximum speed of 15Mbps down and 5Mbps up.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: CALAVERAS TELEPHONE COMPANY
Contact: JIM TOWER
(209) 7852211
jim@caltel.com
Project Title: Calaveras FibertotheHome Broadband Deployment Project
Description: The Calaveras FibertotheHome Broadband Deployment Project is an initiative of Calaveras
Telephone Company to bring the robust infrastructure of fibertothehome technology to its
existing customer footprint in Calaveras County. Deployment is based upon an overbuild and
expansion of existing exchange areas as well as an increased transport route to the local Internet
point of presence.
Page 86 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: CDS WIRELESS, INC.
Contact: STEVEN CHARLES CARNIGLIA
(707) 5733500
steve@cds1.net
Project Title: Mendocino County Wireless Broadbank Project
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: This is a wireless broadband project covering approximately 1280 square miles of rural area from
US Highway 101 to the Pacific Ocean in primaily Mendocino County and a small area of Northern
Sonoma County. The service performance will be comparable to wired DSL service offered by
AT&T in Santa Rosa, CA area. A good portion of this proposed service area not only has no
broadband internet service and no cellphone service. The "project" area is quite remote in many
cases and in some areas families are using Solar or Coal powered generators as their primary
electrical source.
Page 87 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: CWLAB INTERNATIONAL, LTD. LIABILITY CO.
Contact: NARISA N CHU
(805) 4986080
nchu@cwlabi.com
Project Title: 10M+ Broadband for Distressed Inland Empire Communities (10MIEC)
Description: Riverside and San Bernandino Counties within the Inland Empire Communities in California suffer
the worst home foreclosure and unemployment among the nation and with 10M+ Broadband
service, we hope to help the lowincome residents (majority of the 4M population in a 7,262
square mile area) to jumpstart from their financial crisis. The area is currently underserved (73%)
with some totally unserved (57%) regarding Broadband access of higher than 5 Mbps. We will
build out Gigabit Broadband infrastructure in Riverside and San Bernandino County areas by
using DSL, Broadband Wireless and Fiber networks combined at an Internet capacity starting from
10Mbps to reach Gbps range in the next 5 years; a capacity conforming to the latest FCC policy.
We choose to build a longterm hybrid evolving network, avoiding overutilization of a limited 4M
channel bandwidth DSL technology alone.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: EXWIRE, INC.
Contact: DEVIN E KOCH
(530) 8201030
devin@exwire.com
Project Title: The High Speed for Nevada County Consortium
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Exwire is committed to bringing high speed Internet to over 4000 homes, businesses and
community institutions in Nevada County California who can not currently get High Speed Internet
or other advanced services. Exwire will use primarily WIMAX and other fixed wireless broadband
technologies to serve these customers.
Page 89 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: GREAT WESTERN ALLIANCE GROUP, INC
Contact: ALIDA HELEN LANGHOUT
(530) 7874656
pl@cableview.tv
Project Title: Yolo County California Rural Broadband Project
Description: The Yolo County Rural Broadband Project (YCRB) will provide enhanced broadband service (up
to 100 Mps to the home) to unincorporated areas of Esparto, Capay, and Madison townships, as
well as to expanded areas of Dunnigan, Knights Landing, Zamora, Yolo, Woodland, and
Monument Hill communities. Included in the YCRBâ€™s enhanced broadband services are
expanded video service and Voice over IP. Utilizing fiber to the home technology with up to 1
Gigabyte of bandwidth, the YCRB Project will pass 3,200 households, plus 24 schools and county
facilities. The project will also serve approximately 4,000 planned housing units, which have
already received approval from Yolo County authorities for construction.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: HOOPA VALLEY TRIBAL COUNCIL
Contact: NORMA JEAN MCADAMS
(707) 4075254
nmcadams@hoopansn.gov
Project Title: HoopaNet
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The Hoopa Valley Tribe is applying for funding to establish a reservationwide broadband network
for the Hoopa Valley Reservation as well as a communitywide broadband network for the town of
Orleans, which includes lands owned by the Karuk Tribe. These networks will include affordable
wireless access for the general public, as well as higher bandwidth services to strategic
institutions such as tribal offices, schools, and medical facilities for the purpose of reducing
unemployment, stimulating economic growth, and enhancing educational opportunities.
Page 91 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: IONE MIWOK BROADBAND
Contact: PAMELA SUSETTE BAUMGARTNER
(209) 2455800
baumgartnerpamela@yahoo.com
Project Title: Mother Lode Broadband Project
Description: A terrestrial based Wireless Fixed WiFi WiMax network is planned for four counties of the western
foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains delivering reliable fast broadband service with up to
20,000 kbps to 332 communities of that four county region including Mariposa, Tuolumne,
Calaveras, and Amador. The Proposed Funded Service Area network is designed to provide
coverage to the unserved and those without high speed service of which there are 13,529
Households without High Speed connections and 4894 who are unserved with a total of 20,188
households. The number of businesses without High Speed are 1355 and 410 unserved with a
total of 1765 businesses. Over 30 construction jobs will be created in this effort and 32 technical
support, customer service positions, along with 9 administrative and management positions, for a
total of 71 new well paying, sustainable jobs.
Page 92 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: MELADOR TECHNOLOGIES INC.
Contact: JOHN SCHAAF
(949) 5107517
JohnS@Intelicloud.com
Project Title: Digital Divide Solution Program
Loan Request: $27,763,300.00
Description: InteliCloud/Melador will provide complete network solutions including best of breed products and
engineering services to design, build and operate highspeed connectivity Broadband Internet,
Television and VOIP telephone services for targeted communities in Los Angeles County. These
unserved/underserved areas, with persistently lowincome and unemployment rates of up to 40
percent, will greatly benefit from this project for its ability to provide jobs, affordable broadband
services, and access to community service programs such as telemedicine, online education and
job training. As an advanced green integrator of voice, video and data communications system,
this project and its technology is designed to be futureproof for at least a decade, and will serve
three times as many customers as traditional data centers while consuming 60 percent less power
and space.
Page 93 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: NORTH COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION
Contact: TODD LESSER
(619) 3644750
ddawson@ccg.com
Project Title: Kokee Public Safety
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: This grant application is being filed by North County Communications, an existing CLEC that
operates in a number of US states. North County proposes to build a wireless system in the Kokee
State Park in Kauai, Hawaii. This network will bring much needed broadband and will bring 911
and emergency phone services to the area for the first time.
Page 94 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: NTCH, INC
Contact: ERIC STEINMANN
(760) 6460990
erics@cleartalk.net
Project Title: NTCH Inc/ClearTalk Last Mile Tennessee 27 County Shared Network
Proposed Project Area: Tennessee
Loan Request: $34,674,398.00
Description: ClearTalk's proposal offers a solution for the state of Tennessee to meet the benchmarks of the
Broadband Plan for America for the year 2020 in the year 2013. ClearTalk will deploy an ICN
network that can be shared by all carriers facilitating competition, increasing safety and reducing
energy consumption. ClearTalk will offer an EVDO Rev A and a high speed EVDO Rev B product
on this network as the anchor tenant for a coverage area of 27 counties with 692,355 people. Cost
of service will be $30 per month. The network reach, (99.8% of persons in the 27 counties) and
efficiency of this funding request(less than $100 per person covered) is possible because of the
multiple revenue streams enabled including voice, middle mile microwave, data and collocation
revenues from those sharing this network and the infrastructure deployed.
Page 95 of 776
Broadband USA
(760) 6460990
erics@cleartalk.net
Project Title: NTCH Inc/ClearTalk ICN Last Mile North Carolina 38 County $36 Per Person Solution
Loan Request: $37,442,886.00
Description: ClearTalk's proposal offers a solution for the state of South Carolina to meet the benchmarks of
the Broadband Plan for America for the year 2020 in the year 2013. ClearTalk will deploy an ICN
energy consumption. ClearTalk will offer a high speed EVDO Rev B product on this network as the
anchor tenant for a coverage area with 2,060,702 people, 791,660 households, 85,280
businesses & 13,159 Critical Community Facilities and Public Safety Entities at a cost of $30 per
month. The network reach, (99.8% of persons in the 38 counties) and efficiency of this funding
request($36.27 per person covered) is possible because of the multiple revenue streams enabled
including voice, middle mile microwave, data and collocation revenues from those sharing this
network and the infrastructure deployed.
Page 96 of 776
Broadband USA
(760) 6460990
erics@cleartalk.net
Project Title: NTCH Inc/ClearTalk ICN Last Mile South Carolina Statewide $20 Per Person Solution
Loan Request: $29,150,272.00
Description: ClearTalk's proposal offers a solution for the state of South Carolina to meet the benchmarks of
the Broadband Plan for America for the year 2020 in the year 2013. ClearTalk will deploy an ICN
energy consumption. ClearTalk will offer a high speed EVDO Rev B product on this network as the
anchor tenant for a total coverage area with 2,926,627 people,1,319,410 households,114,286
businesses & 16,924 Critical Community and Public Safety Entities at a cost of $30 per month.
The network reach, (99.2% of persons in the 36 counties) and efficiency of this funding request
($19.88 per person covered) is possible because of the multiple revenue streams enabled
including voice, middle mile microwave, data and also colocation revenues from those sharing
this network and the infrastructure deployed.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: OM NETWORKS
Contact: AMY NICKERSON
(530) 7580119
anick@omsoft.com
Project Title: Yolo County California Area
Description: Extension of wireless broadband service to the rural areas of Yolo County and Northeastern
Solano County in the State of California.
Page 98 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: PERSONAL NETWORK COMPUTING INC
Contact: OFER TENENBAUM
(707) 4281940
ofer@pnc.net
Project Title: High Speed Internet for Lake County
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Valley Internet (PNC, Inc.) will bring fast, low latency wireless highspeed Internet to all inhabited
rural areas of Lake County that currently do not have access to broadband. The project will cover
over 8,000 households and businesses. In continuing our tradition in Napa and Solano counties,
Valley Internet will provide broadband connectivity free of charge to all anchor institutions within
our coverage area.
Page 99 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: RACE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Contact: RAUL ALCARAZ
(415) 3763311
clec@race.com
Project Title: Kern County High Desert Initiative
Description: This project deploys a fibertothepremises network to offer services to unserved and under
served markets in Kern County, California. The project includes last mile triple play services. The
initiative is being developed by Race Communications, Inc. in collaboration with a Mojavebased
affiliate. The three local distribution rings in our service area are: Bear Valley Springs, Stallion
Springs and parts of Golden Hills.
Page 100 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: REDWOOD IPTV, LLC
Contact: JAN DUBIAKOVA
(559) 3072945
jdubiakova@instantphone.org
Project Title: Humboldt Del Norte Fiber Project
Loan Request: $11,044,935.00
Description: Provide middle mile and last mile service in Humboldt & Del Norte counties
Page 101 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: RELIANT COMMUNICATIONS
Contact: JOHN ROBERT BAIRD
(858) 3420619
john.baird@reliantbroadband.us
Project Title: San Diego Rural Broadband Project
Loan Request: $13,734,250.00
Description: The purpose of the San Diego Rural Broadband Project is to provide broadband internet service
and VOIP to Rural San Diego and Southern Riverside Counties. Reliant Communications, Inc will
focus best efforts on broadband education, public safety support as well as providing discounted
broadband and VOIP for all Community Services, Public Safety and Small Disadvantaged
Businesses.
Page 102 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: ROMANA BAND OF CAHUILLA INDIANS
Contact: SUSAN RECKKER
(951) 7634105
admin@ramonatribe.com
Project Title: Ramona Net
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The Ramona Tribe proposes to create Ramona Net a next generation wireless broadband
network for the purpose of making broadband Internet access available to its tribal businesses,
government enterprises, and households currently underserved or unserved by broadband on
the Ramona tribal land(s). Ramona Net is designed to bring services to the greater Anza Valley,
including the Cahuilla tribal land and the town of Anza in rural California. The Ramona Tribe will
deploy stateoftheart 900MHz Wireless technology to create a canopy wireless Internet access
offering, and will contract with a wholesale CLEC or ILEC for its wholesale Internet backhaul
requirements.
Page 103 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: RURAL COMMUNITIES UNITED
Contact: LUANN LINNEBUR
(858) 5310534
luann.linnebur@ruralcu.com
Project Title: Rural Oregon/N.CA Coastal Wireless Broadband Project
Proposed Project Area: California, Oregon
Description: This project is a collaborative effort among local and regional governments, tribes, anchor
institutions and local service providers to offer high speed broadband to communities with minimal
or no broadband access. Individuals and institutions will be wirelessly interconnected, enabling
them to securely exchange information at speeds over 100 Mbps and to access the Internet at
speeds over 10 Mbps. The area is comprised of approximately 12,000 households and 2,000
businesses and 25 anchor institutions scattered among redwood covered hills. Between 2000 and
2004 this area was the fastest growing in Oregon. Over the past 5 years the numbers have begun
to decline due to economic conditions and a lack of educational and medical resources. This new
wireless connectivity will help attract new residents, businesses and tourism to this majestic,
rugged coastal area.
Page 104 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: SCHAT DOT NET
Contact: AARON ISSAC SCHAT
(760) 8734377 x27
billing@schat.com
Project Title: Inyo Mono Broadband Project
Proposed Project Area: California, Nevada
Description: This 300 mile project, will help rural, lowincome and diverse communites by providing access to
broadband service by consumers residing in unserved areas of California, as well as bring
improved broadband service to those in underserved areas. This is a middle mile and last mile
upgrade to an existing backhaul that has already been running in the areas it supports. Upgraded
broadband service will enable public safety agencies, hospitals, schools, businesses, tribal lands,
libraries, and households to access the needed bandwidth to effectively conduct their important
business transactions. The upgraded backhaul will also bring down the current high prices that are
being charged by bandwidth providers to this area. This will result in more affordable, highspeed
internet to the consumers, as well as enable continuous speed upgrades as the industry demands.
Page 105 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: SHEL COMMUNICATIONS, INC
Contact: MATT ASHE
(650) 4721550
matt@bitsstar.com
Project Title: Tuolumne County Rural Remote Broadband Initiative
Loan Request: $13,263,020.00
Description: Tuolumne County Rural Remote Broadband Initiative proposes the construction of a stateofthe
art Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON). By installing a completely new fiber optic plant from
the ground up, TCRRBI will be able to offer a much higher quality of broadband service to over
15,000 homes than possible with any other technology. This application is based upon the
construction a 500 mile fiber optic network and will place Tuolumne County on par or ahead of
metro areas in the broadband arena by providing up to 100 Mbps of broadband access per home
Page 106 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: SISKIYOU, COUNTY OF
Contact: MONIQUE DIXON
(530) 8421638 x207
siskiyoubroadband@gmail.com
Project Title: Siskiyou County Broadband Last Mile Project
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: As part of the Siskiyou County Broadband Consortium, SnowCrest Telephone will bring cutting
edge DSL technology to currently unserved communities in Siskiyou County. SnowCrest
Telephone will facilitate broadband access in the areas of Lake Shastina, Azalea, Gazelle,
Edgewood, Hammond/Deetz/Wizner and South Yreka/Grenada. By creating a fiber backbone,
SnowCrest Telephone will be able to serve these communitiesâ€™ 1881 unserved households
and 212 unserved businesses with new connections using 7, 10 and 20 Mbps DSL connections
orâ€”using new extendedreach DSLâ€”up to 768k Internet connections within 32,000 feet of
network nodes. SnowCrest Telephone will work in concert with its sister corporation SnowCrest,
Inc., an established local Internet provider with more than 15 years experience, to provide Internet
service and customer support via SnowCrest, Inc.â€™s call center, offices and Internet cafÃ©.
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Applicant: SK WORKS, LLC
Contact: TIMOTHY TYNDALL
(805) 7080127
timothy@rain.org
Project Title: New Cuyama Rural Broadband Project
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The Project will serve New Cuyama, California, (Pop. 793). The School District, Community Health
Clinic, Fire Department, and Recreation Department are active participants in the project. 390
households, 14 small businesses, and 28 small farms will be served. The health clinic, public
library, high school, elementary school, community center and Fire Department will receive free
connectivity during the first year and reduced cost Internet in following years. 300 students will be
brought online through the schools. Over 50 patients per month will receive telemedicine
supported health care through the health clinic and over 150 individuals per month will receive
technology skills and job training classes through the Recreation Departmentâ€™s Community
Center. working with the Technology Skills and Job Training classes.
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Applicant: SMARTERBROADBAND
Contact: ADAM BRODEL
(530) 2688289
adam@smarterbroadband.com
Project Title: SmarterBroadband Project
Description: Smarter Broadband of Grass Valley, California, in Nevada County, proposes the Smarter
Broadband Project, bringing high quality fixed wireless service to one of the more geographically
challenging areas in California.
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Applicant: SOFTCOM INTERNET COMMUNICATIONS INC
Contact: KEVIN TRIPLETT
(209) 7456123
kevin@softcom.net
Project Title: Softcom Rural Broadband Expansion Project
Description: Softcom Internet Communications, Inc, an Internet Service Provider (ISP) based out of Galt, CA
and operating since 1992, is proposing the Softcom Rural Expansion, a project that will provide
100% broadband availability to a large and underserved rural area.
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Applicant: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TRIBAL CHAIRMEN\'S ASSOCIATION
Contact: DENIS TURNER
(760) 7428600 x100
dturner@sctca.net
Project Title: ARRA/BIP SCTCA/TDVNet to the home.
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: SCTCA, a multiservice 501(c)3 est.1972, a consortium of 19 federallyrecognized Indian tribes in
Southern California, is going to use its existing Tribal Digital Village fixed wireless network
infrastructure to deploy highspeed broadband Internet service to the tribal home on its affiliated
reservations and immediate surrounding community because there are NO other terrestrialbased
or costeffective options for its people. This will increase broadband adoption from the 17% current
baseline usage, at community anchor institutions, to 70% (4800 new broadband users, in 2000
homes) among members of 19 Native American tribes in rural Southern California. Thus
continuing to keep with its mission to serve the health, welfare, safety, education, cultural,
economic & employment needs of its tribal members.
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Applicant: TRI VALLEY BROADBAND LLC
Contact: LEROY GEORGE JACKSON
(626) 3303010
ljackson@tvbllc.com
Project Title: Tri Valley Broadband LLC dba Bear Mountain Broadband
Description: Restoration and Modernization of the franchised cable television system that served the Bear
Valley Springs, Stallion Springs, and Alpine Forest areas of Tehachapi. Restoration of this 110
mile plus plant will provide state of the art Fiber To The Premises High Speed Internet, Video, and
VOIP services that will meet or exceed the National Broadband Plan.
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Applicant: VISTA BROADBAND NETWORKS INC
Contact: SCOTT MINDEMANN
(707) 7923304
scott@vistabroadband.com
Project Title: Northern California Expansion of Proven Broadband Business Model, Augmented with Remote
Telemedicine
Description: Financially stable Vista will expand existing 100Mbps/1Gbps core infrastructure and innovative
architecture currently operating in Sonoma, Marin & Napa Counties to specific unserved and
underserved rural areas adjacent to and within current coverage as well as offer Telestreme
Medical remote telemedicine services. The licensed microwave core expands to complete
coverage to over 1500 rural and nonrural critical community facilities, public safety entities,
hospitals and nonprofit & commercial organizations. Our 25Mbps final mile end user microwave
edge backbone also expands for 5Mbps symmetric service to residences of 577,235 households
in 1st & 6th Congressional Districts. With Telestreme offered on this network, patients can be
monitored w/ video interaction by doctors and medical professionals providing chronic disease
care (i.e: congestive heart failure, renal failure and diabetes).
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Applicant: WECARE WIRELESS NETWORKS, INC.
Contact: DAVE CURTIS
(925) 3374550
ddcurtis@wecare.net
Project Title: Wireless Broadband for Underserved Rural Areas of San Joaquin, Alameda, and Contra Costa
Counties
Description: This project will extend WeCareâ€™s broadband wireless network into rural, underserved regions
of San Joaquin, Alameda, and Contra Costa counties. The costs of building landline infrastructure
to serve these low density housing and geographically isolated regions have prohibited anyone
from doing so. The network design calls for leveraging WeCareâ€™s current systems and
infrastructure, along with existing third party communications facilities, to quickly and cost
effectively bring broadband services to these underserved areas. The expanded network will
provide high speed access to 25 critical community facilities, 7210 households, 26K residents, and
537 businesses over 824 square miles. Introducing high speed access to these underserved rural
areas will improve the delivery of educational services and access to healthcare, create new jobs,
and help drive economic development.
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Applicant: WIBAC LLC
Contact: FELIX RODRIGUEZ
(818) 7686401
frodriguez@wibac.net
Project Title: Wireleass Internet Broadband Access Capability
Description: Provide wireless broadband internet access to Pixley, California a rural communities via WiMax/
WiFi technologies. The population of Pixley as of July 2007 is 2,940 of those 1,563 are males
(53.2%) and 1,377 are females representing 46.8 %. The median resident age is 23.6 years old.
The California median age is 33.3 years. Estimated median household income in 2008: $30,939.
Wireless Internet Broadband Access Convergence (WIBAC) was formed in 2009 to offer an
inexpensive, wireless broadband Internet connection to compete with DSL, cellular EVDO, or
cable offerings. Using WiFi & WiMAX technology, the company will set up neighborhood wireless
to replace the aging or nonexistent copper (F1) infrastructure. WIBAC will use meshed WiFi &
WiMAX technology to set up neighborhood networks.
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Applicant: WILLITSONLINE LLC
Contact: MIKE IRETON
(707) 4590842
mike@ruralbroadbandnow.com
Project Title: Access Mendo
Description: A lastmile, leased dark fiberoptic broadband infrastructure network that will address a critical
need for improved interoffice transport and IP Access, enabling xDSL lastmile services to expand
and improve broadband access to residents and businesses in unserved markets of Mendocino
County, CA.
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Colorado
Applicant: BRAINSTORM INTERNET, INC.
Contact: PHIL BRYSON
(970) 2471442 x125
phil@brainstorminternet.net
Project Title: Southwest ColoradoNorthwest New Mexico Community Connect
Proposed Project Area: Colorado, New Mexico
Description: The Southwest ColoradoNorthwest New Mexico Community Connect Project will provide 3â€“10
Mbps (combined) of wireless broadband to 31,507 households and 5,498 businesses in the rural
underserved areas of La Plata & Montezuma County, CO and San Juan County, NM. This project
will serve more than 148 Critical Community Facilities and Public Safety Entities within the
proposed funded service area.
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Applicant: CORPORATION OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY ATGO
Contact: DANIEL H JONES
(970) 3495005
dan@rmbl.org
Project Title: Wireless broadband mesh network for the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
Proposed Project Area: Colorado
Description: At 9,500 ft in the Rocky Mountains in the midst of dense foliage and a challenging mountain
topography, the scientists of Gothic, Colorado seek a mesh wireless network to extend existing
broadband Internet to all structures within the Lab's campus.
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Applicant: DIRECTLINK, L.L.C.
Contact: JAMES CAREY
(720) 8511111
jcarey@myedl.com
Project Title: DirectLink Colorado East Expansion
Description: The DirectLink East Colorado Expansion project will consist of building up to 20 new tower sites
and will address the design, conception and implementation of expanding an additional 7
thousand square miles of needed coverage. While supplying existing customers with new
upgraded service. Each tower will be capable of up to 800 Mbs of throughput by using licensed
links. DirectLink realizes that the next generation of service needs to be developed for our growth
and our customersâ€™ needs. We will deploy not only Internet but also phone service, utilizing
wireless technology. The underlying areas that will be added are currently being served by dialup
and high cost satellite services. DirectLink is confident we can deliver simple and affordable
solutions.
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Applicant: NE COLORADO CELLULAR, INC.
Contact: MICHAEL FELICISSIMO
(303) 2431010
arra@viaero.com
Project Title: Northeastern ColoradoNebraska (NOCONE) Mobile Broadband Network
Proposed Project Area: Colorado, Nebraska
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: NE Colorado Cellular, Inc., d/b/a Viaero Wireless ("Viaero") proposes to deploy a wireless mobile
broadband network throughout Northern Colorado and Western Nebraska, providing speeds of 15
Mbps downstream and 5 Mbps upstream to 27,233 households, 46,191 businesses, and 3,206
critical community facilities. The project will lever Viaero's existing coverage, which focuses on
rural areas and rural customers, as well as its established retail sales and marketing capabilities.
Viaero's existing operations will greatly increase the effectiveness of the requested loan and grant
funding and dramatically reduce time to market.
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Applicant: NE COLORADO CELLULAR, INC.
Contact: MICHAEL FELICISSIMO
(303) 2431010
arra@viaero.com
Project Title: Southern Colorado Mobile Broadband Network
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: NE Colorado Cellular, Inc., d/b/a Viaero Wireless ("Viaero") proposes to deploy a wireless mobile
broadband network across Southen Colorado. That network will providie speeds of up to 15 Mbps
downstream and 5 Mbps upstream to 12,948 households, 18,627 businesses, and 1,253 critical
community facilities. The project will lever Viaero's existing coverage, which focuses on rural areas
and rural customers, as well as its established retail sales and marketing capabilities. Viaero's
existing operations will greatly increase the effectiveness of the requested loan and grant funding
and dramatically reduce time to market.
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Applicant: NUNN TELEPHONE COMPANY
Contact: GREG GRABLANDER
(970) 8972200
ggreg@ezlink.com
Project Title: Nunn Rural Broadband Project
Description: This project will provide high speed broadband service to rural residents and business in north
central Colorado, utilizing Fiber To The Home technologies.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: OPEN RANGE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
Contact: KEYOUMARS SAEED
(303) 3762102
q@openrange.us
Project Title: Open Range Communications Inc. Extension Markets BIP Loan Proposal BIP Round 2
Proposed Project Area: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Wisconsin
Grant Request: $0.00
Loan Request: $86,629,835.00
Description: Open Range will extend affordable wireless broadband to 2M Americans in underserved areas
and carry out President Obamaâ€™s broadband goals. Contracts are in place for Open Rangeâ
€™s current build so construction can begin immediately; the plan is sustainable, adoption
achievable. WiMAXâ„¢ and an experienced telecom team, familiar to the RUS, will deliver on the
Presidentâ€™s promises.
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Applicant: OPEN RANGE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
Contact: KEYOUMARS SAEED
(303) 3762102
q@openrange.us
Project Title: Open Range Communications Inc. Middle Mile BIP Loan Proposal BIP Round 2
Proposed Project Area: Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania
Loan Request: $24,358,045.00
Description: Open Range Communicationâ€™s Middle Mile(MM) broadband plan for a BIP loan leverages the
physical infrastructure of our current network deployment in rural communities across America to
enable affordable, high speed microwave broadband capabilities to rural community anchor
institutions that lack sufficient network capacity from existing providers. Anchor institutions include
a broad mix of public, private and rural institutions critical to economic development and quality of
life. Open Rangeâ€™s plan covers 17 proposed funded service areas(19 communities) in five
states. Our plan will make high capacity services available to nearly 1500 rural community anchor
institutions. Open Range brings the proven experience needed to execute on its plans. We have
demonstrated our ability to generate jobs and revenue, ensure financial sustainability, and
complete projects on time and within budget.
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Applicant: PHILLIPS COUNTY TELEPHONE COMPANY
Contact: VINCE KROPP
(970) 8542201
vkropp@pctelcom.org
Project Title: PC TELCOM BROADBAND
Description: Deploy broadband services to rural residents and businesses in Northeast Colorado using a mix of
wired and wireless technologies to obtain the most economical method of delivering broadband
services to as many users as possible.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: PLAINS COOPERATIVE TELEPHONE ASSOCIATION INC
Contact: D. KEVIN FELTY
(970) 3584211
dkfelty@plainstel.com
Project Title: Fiber on the Colorado Plains
Description: Plains Cooperative Telephone Association, Inc. will provide broadband service to more than 1,400
premises on the eastern plains of Colorado. This project will utilize Fiber to the Home tech to bring
high speed internet access to households businesses and critical community facilities in this rural
area as well as create and save jobs and stimulate the local economy.
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Applicant: QWEST CORPORATION
Contact: MELISSA NEWMAN
(202) 4293120
Melissa.Newman@qwest.com
Project Title: Qwest 14state High Speed Access Project
Proposed Project Area: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota,
Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wyoming
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Qwest Corporationâ€™s project proposes deployment of High Speed Access within its current 14
state ILEC footprint. Over 500,000 living units (LUs) in AZ, CO, ID, IA, MN, MT, NE, ND, NM, OR,
SD, UT, WA and WY will be served with speeds ranging up to 40 Mbps downstream. About 90%
of the LUs proposed for new or upgraded broadband service are in rural areas. The system design
uses a combination of technologies including Ethernet, fiber and radio backhaul to reach covered
LUs and varies based on the specific location and geography. The project will provide last mile
infrastructure to support increasing capacity requirements and integrate new broadband
dependent applications and technologies. And, if funded, the projectâ€™s $467 M investment will
create more than 23,000 jobs for local economies in the 14 states (calculated from the Atkinson
formula offered in a 2009 broadband study).
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Applicant: SOUTH PARK LLC
Contact: DAVID SHIPLEY
(719) 8376400
dshipley@ghvalley.net
Project Title: South Park Basin Broadband Project
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: This grant is being filed by South Park Telephone Company seeking funding to build a network to
provide wireless high speed services to approximately 550 square miles of rural Park County,
Colorado. There are a combined 3,706 homes, critical community facilities, and public safety
entities located in this section of the County. The vast majority (93%) of these homes and
businesses are unserved.
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Applicant: STONEHAM COOPERATIVE TELEPHONE CORPORATION, THE
Contact: TAYA NORTHRUP
(970) 7352251
stoneham.telephone@yahoo.com
Project Title: Stoneham FTTH
Description: Stoneham Cooperative Telephone Corporation, headquartered in Stoneham, Colorado, proposes
to construct fibertothehome throughout the Stoneham telephone exchange, its certificated
service area.
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Applicant: WAGNER TELECOMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Contact: BRIAN C WAGNER
(303) 3192269
brian@sanisabel.com
Project Title: San Isabel Telecom Broadband Initiative
Description: San Isabel Telecom, Inc.â€™s proposed project will bring lowcost, highspeed broadband access
to neglected communities in Eagle and Summit Counties in the State of Colorado. The project will
also provide broadband services to community anchor institutions throughout the service area
including schools, hospitals, clinics, police departments, fire departments, ambulance districts,
search and rescue teams, libraries, and local municipalities. San Isabel will deploy broadband
Ethernet over Copper infrastructure in six existing central offices. The completed network will offer
broadband services at speeds and pricing not currently available to these communities.
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Applicant: WILLARD TELEPHONE COMPANY, THE
Contact: LYLE DUANE STAFFORD
(970) 5802374
staffordeng@yahoo.com
Project Title: Willard Telephone Company FTTH
Description: Project Description: The Willard Telephone Company exchange is located in western Logan
County, Colorado.The Willard Telephone Company FTTH project will provide highspeed internet
to 87 premises using active ethernet over fiber to the home.
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District of Columbia
Applicant: BLOOSURF, LLC
Contact: PAUL CARLINER
(202) 2818219
paul@bloosurf.com
Project Title: Delmarva Wireless Broadband
Proposed Project Area: Delaware, Maryland, Virginia
Description: The project intends to build in partnership with the University of Maryland Eastern Shore a
wireless last mile network for the rural areas of Worcester, Somerset and Wicomico Counties in
Maryland. It will also cover Smith island. This network will connect to the Maryland Broadband
Cooperative optic fiber at four interconnection points. It will be open to different ISPs and should
offer competitive service for both fixed and mobile high speed internet. It shall provide VoIP
services as well. The service will target both residential and business markets in addition to
anchor institutions.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: UNITED HEALTH SERVICES HOSPITAL, INC.
Contact: TONY RAMOS
(202) 3217969
tramos@socennyrba.com
Project Title: The South Central New York Rural Broadband Alliance BIP application
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: A fiber optics project for four rural hospitals, including one which is designated as a critical access
hospital, plus 28 medical offices. As part of a larger consortium to provide fiber for 42 libraries, 6
OneStop work centers and a free medical clinic at a shopping mall. Jobs created shown here are
for this portion of the project only.
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Florida
Applicant: AMERICAN CABLE TV INC
Contact: CUBA WEST
(352) 5429037
actv@bellsouth.net
Project Title: ACTV Broadband Mission
Proposed Project Area: Florida
Loan Request: $10,507,250.00
Description: The ACTV Broadband Mission project will: 1. interconnect with existing and planned middle mile
broadband providers; 2. coordinate efforts with the middle mile broadband providers to ensure that
all synergies are realized, and to eliminate all unnecessary redundancies or overlap of federal
funds for these programs; 3. fill the current broadband void in the RACEC designated region of
Dixie, Gilchrist, Lafayette, Levy, and Taylor counties in north central Florida; 4. make available last
mile 5Mbps broadband services to all residents, businesses, and community anchor institutions
within this five county service area; and 5. when funded, offer highly discounted services to
community anchor institutions and vulnerable populations as well as provide free broadband
services to the countiesâ€™ EMS and Sheriffâ€™s Departments for emergency response and
Amber alerts.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: KEYSTONE WIRELESS, LLC
Contact: ROBERT C MARTIN
(239) 3351325
dbloss@pcmgt.com
Project Title: Keystone Wireless Broadband Initiative
Proposed Project Area: Pennsylvania
Loan Request: $11,096,780.00
Description: Keystone Wireless will construct a state of the art 3G Wireless Network to deliver Broadband
service to rural parts of Central Pa. The result will deliver affordable Broadband service to over
368,000 households in parts of Centre, Lycoming, Union, Northumberland, Snyder, Clinton,
Schuylkill, Berks, Mountour counties.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: LITESTREAM HOLDINGS LLC
Contact: WILLIAM DAVID TAYLOR
(561) 6595400
wtaylor@litestream.net
Project Title: Western St. Lucie County Broadband Expansion
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Litestream Holdings, LLC proposes to extend its existing fiber trunk to serve over 940 unserved
locations in a rural portion of unincorporated St. Lucie County, Florida. The project will deliver
HighSpeed Internet, Digital Voice, and Digital/HighDefinition Video services to these unserved
locations. Since this project serves unserved rural lowdensity areas, 100% grant funding will be
required. The project is supported at the County level by St. Lucie County Commissioner Chris
Craft, at the State level by Florida State Representative Kevin Rader, Florida State Representative
Adam Fetterman and Florida State Senator J.D. Alexander, and at the Federal Level by
Congressman Alcee Hastings and Congressman Tom Rooney.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: MYAKKA COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Contact: CHARLES MATSON
(941) 3222916
charley@myakka.com
Project Title: Myakka Communications
Description: Project will deploy fiber optic cable in the rural Eastern portions of Manatee and Sarasota
Counties allowing speeds up to 20 mbps. This area is currently served wirelessly by the sister
company to applicant, Myakka Technologies. Most of Myakka Technology's current customers will
be transferred to the fiber upon completion.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: NAVTECH BROADBAND, LLC.
Contact: SNEHAL DESAI
(561) 3519279
snehal@navtechbroadband.com
Project Title: SCFlorida
Loan Request: $24,384,376.00
Description: Navtech Broadband wants to bring affordable high speed wireless broadband Internet to all or
portions of 14 counties including areas covered under South Central Floridaâ€™s RACEC (Rural
Areas of Critical Economic Concern). Our service area includes areas of 39 cities that cover
approximately 18,000 census blocks of approximately 90 census tracts. This area covers 203,870
households, 23,000 businesses of a total of 434,830 populations. Navtech will use Wimax based
fixed wireless broadband services using 5.4/5.8 GHz, 3.65 GHz or 1.4 GHz frequencies to provide
high speed Internet to its customers.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: ONE STOP SOLUTION, INC.
Contact: MARTIN SALKEY
(954) 5935786
martin@onestopsolutioninc.com
Project Title: The Next Business Generation
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: One Stop Solution will focus on the deployment of mobile wireless WiMax 4G infrastructure and
services in South Central Florida Counties defined as Rural Areas of Critical Economic Concern
(RACEC). The implementation of leading edge technology in RACEC counties will allow for the
economic spur in the form of job growth, capability of telemedicine, accessible higher education,
and the platform for business competition that otherwise would not be possible with existing
infrastructure. We predict that these efforts will create over 200 new jobs and over the life of the
project preserve over 5,000 positions.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: ORISONS COMMUNITY SERVICE
Contact: DONELL OWENS
(904) 5915434
orisonscom@hotmail.com
Project Title: Building the Right Community Connections
Proposed Project Area: Alabama, Florida
Description: Our organization will provide an affordable wireless broadband access to many of the residents
and consumers located in the unserved and vulnerable communities located in the Blackbelt
region of Alabama. Our intent is to implement a cost effective wireless broadband system/method
in the Black belt region that than can be easily duplicated in other surrounding areas. This also
includes other southern states such as Georgia, Mississppi, South Carolina and Florida.
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Applicant: PCC HOLDINGS, INC
Contact: DAVID J MALFARA
(724) 3960432
dmalfara@twncorp.com
Project Title: WiPower Broadband #2 (NM)
Description: This Lastmile infrastructure project will fund the deployment of a high speed, mobileready fixed
wireless broadband network to extend Internet access and other broadband services to unserved,
vulnerable populations and Community Anchor Institutions in rural areas of Arizona. Deployed in
cooperation with the efforts of Rural Power Cooperatives, WiPower broadband services often
represents the first and only access to the Internet for the socially and economically
disadvantaged individuals as well as Community Anchor Institutions inhabiting some of the most
remote areas of the country. The network will provide combined upstream/downstream speeds of
more than 3 Mb/Sec and will be constructed at a cost of less than $1000 per household passed.
Community Anchor Institutions and qualified small or disadvantaged businesses can receive
service, through a special program, at discounted rates.
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(724) 3960432
Project Title: WiPower Broadband #1 (AZ)
vulnerable populations and Community Anchor Institutions in rural areas of Arizona. Deployed in
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(724) 3960432
Project Title: WiPower Broadband #3 (TX)
Proposed Project Area: New Mexico, Texas
vulnerable populations and Community Anchor Institutions in rural areas of Texas. Deployed in
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Broadband USA
Applicant: ULTIMATE CONNECTION, THE, INC
Contact: STEPHEN WARD
(941) 2067810
s.ward@daystar.net
Project Title: Hardee County
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Provide residents and business of Hardee County with High Speed Internet Services
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Georgia
Applicant: BULLDOG CABLE GEORGIA, INCORPORATED
Contact: JOSEPH ANDREW SHEEHAN
(706) 9979999
joe@bulldogcable.com
Project Title: Bulldog Cable Big Sky System
Proposed Project Area: Montana
Description: Bulldog Cable will upgrade and expand its existing cable TV plant facilities in the Big Sky area of
Montana to provide advanced broadband products to 3,090 residents and 1,308 underserved and
unserved homes. We expect to build, upgrade and construct 71 miles of hybrid fiber coax to reach
all of these homes. Additionally, Bulldog Cable will provide low cost access to schools, libraries
and emergency care institutions in the service area.
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(706) 9979999
Project Title: Bulldog Cable Lake Sinclair System
Description: Bulldog Cable will upgrade and expand its existing cable TV plant facilities in the Lake Sinclair
area of Georgia to provide advanced broadband products to 5,025 underserved and unserved
homes as well as 1,369 businesses. We expect to build, upgrade and construct 205 miles of
hybrid fiber coax to reach all of these homes. Additionally, Bulldog Cable will provide low cost
access to schools, libraries and emergency care institutions in the service area.
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(706) 9979999
Project Title: Bulldog Cable Lake Jackson System
Description: Bulldog Cable will upgrade and expand its existing cable TV plant facilities in the Lake Jackson
area of Georgia to provide advanced broadband products to 2,699 underserved and unserved
homes as well as 1,839 businesses. We expect to build, upgrade and construct 220 miles of
hybrid fiber coax to reach all of these homes. Additionally, Bulldog Cable will provide low cost
access to schools, libraries and emergency care institutions in the service area.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: DARIEN TELEPHONE CO., INC., THE
Contact: JOHNNY ZOUCKS
(912) 4377400
johnny.zoucks@dtctel.net
Project Title: Broadband Bridge to Sapelo Island
Description: Darien Telephone Company, Inc. proposes to expand highspeed broadband service to Sapelo
Island, a barrier island off the coast of Georgia. The proposed project area is currently without
access to HighSpeed Broadband (5mb up/down). With funding from the BIP program for this
proposed project, Darien will be able to meet the broadband needs of residences, businesses and
community anchor institutions on Sapelo today and far into the future using FTTH GPON
technology. The project will pass 240 households and 20 businesses.
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Applicant: FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN COOPERATIVES/LAND ASSISTANCE FUND
Contact: RALPH PAIGE
(404) 7650991
fsc@mindspring.com
Project Title: Broadband Infrastructure (Greene, Hale, Sumter and Pickens counties)
Description: The Federation of Southern Cooperatives and GTABS Engineering will establish Broadband
infrastructure in Greene, Sumter, Pickens and Hale counties in rural western Alabama and provide
access at competitive rates. The Broadband service, and an allied Public Computer Center, will be
based at the Federationâ€™s Rural Training Center at Epes (Sumter County), where we and our
partners will use Broadband to provide or augment distance learning, telemedicine and
educational courses to this area.
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Applicant: FORT VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY
Contact: GERALD ODELL KIMBROUGH
(478) 8256228
kimbroughd@fvsu.edu
Project Title: FVSU Rural Georgia Broadband Initiative A Public Private Partnership with the Diigitel Corporation
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The FVSU Rural Georgia Broadband Initiative, working together with the Digitel Corporation, will
provide highspeed wireless broadband services to unserved and underserved communities in 51
South Georgia counties. Particular focus will be given to agricultural, educational, training,
healthcare, job creation, public safety, senior citizens, and governmental applications and
services. The initiative will include 216 tower sites within the region. In addition, with FVSU
Cooperative Extension Programs our mission is to help individuals throughout South Georgia, as
well as the state of Georgia can help improve their lives through outreach and communitybased
educational opportunities. Working together, this initiative gives our residents access to research
based educational resources and the information provided to specialists, county agents and
program assistants.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: GAP TECHNOLOGIES INC.
Contact: DEMETRIS GEDDIS
(757) 3756333
dgeddis@gaptechnologiesinc.com
Project Title: Rutledge Fiber to the Premises Project
Description: Gap Technologies Inc. seeks to bring last mile fiber optic broadband services to residents and
business owners in the city of Rutledge, Georgia and the surrounding areas. The fiber optic
network will provide a maximum data rate of 20 Mbps and will offer Internet, IPTV, and VOIP
services.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: IWISPR, LLC
Contact: JAIME LAYSON
(770) 5481974
jaime@iwispr.net
Project Title: Northwest Georgia Broadband
Description: iWispr plans to deploy a fixed wireless Motorola Canopy system providing reliable highspeed
broadband service to the unserved and under served areas of Chattooga County and Walker
County located in Northwest Georgia. This project will address the crucial need for enhanced
communications and provide the unserved citizens of the area the ability to take advantage of the
opportunities in our digital age.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: JEDAI NETWORKS, INC.
Contact: GERALD PATRICK RAMDEEN
(404) 5277975
gramdeen@luxcore.net
Project Title: Building Community Through Commerece: Region 2 East Georgia
Proposed Project Area: Georgia, South Carolina
Description: "Building Community Through Commerce" â€“ Jedai Networks (Jedai) will transform rural,
underserved, and unserved communities throughout the state of Georgia into a network of self
sufficient Broadband Internet service providers (ISP). Collaborating with local communities, Jedai
will provide Broadband infrastructure: USmanufactured telecom and datacom switching, routing &
transport hardware and software, backhaul transport services, network operations, maintenance,
and customer support. Jedai will employ and train county utility workers to support customer
premise installations and customer care. Jedai's platform offers a unique awareness and training
framework to administer affordable Broadband and to accelerate adoption. Furthermore, Jedai will
deploy community ECommerce portals to deliver improved services and empower local
entrepreneurs.
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Broadband USA
(404) 5277975
Project Title: Building Community Through Commerce Region 3 Southeast Georgia
Loan Request: $10,984,703.00
entrepreneurs.
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Broadband USA
(404) 5277975
Project Title: Building Community Through Commerce: Region 1 SW Georgia
Proposed Project Area: Alabama, Georgia
entrepreneurs.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: MAIN STREET BROADBAND LLC
Contact: MIKE MCCOLLUM
(404) 6260115
mmccollum@mainstreetbb.com
Project Title: MSB South Georgia Broadband
Description: The Main Street Broadband (MSB) South Georgia Broadband project is a 4G wireless last mile
project covering over 240,000 residents and 85,000 households spread over 7,200 square miles in
17 rural South Georgia counties. MSB was founded, and the network designed, to provide fast,
affordable connectivity to the rural un and underserved residents and businesses of Southern
Georgia and Northern Florida. MSB is currently serving 18 rural communities in South Georgia
and believes that the MSB South Georgia Broadband is a unique opportunity to combine federal
funding with state and local government support, and private equity, to effect fundamental change
in a very rural region of persistent poverty. The MSB South Georgia Broadband project is shovel
ready and sustainable.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: MAIN STREET BROADBAND LLC
Contact: MIKE MCCOLLUM
(404) 6260115
mmccollum@mainstreetbb.com
Project Title: MSB North Florida Broadband
Description: The Main Street Broadband (MSB) North Florida Broadband project is a 4G wireless last mile
project serving over 83,000 rural residents and 31,000 households in 5 rural counties. MSB was
founded, and the network designed, to provide fast, affordable connectivity to the rural un and
underserved residents and businesses of Southern Georgia and Northern Florida. MSB currently
serves eighteen (18) rural communities in South Georgia and believes that the MSB North Florida
Broadband project effectively leverages existing RUS funding, the North Florida Broadband
Authority (NFBA) Round I grant (Easygrant ID 2259), and the existing scalable infrastructure of the
company. The project has significant public and private support, will serve many critical facilities
and anchor institutions, is shovel ready and is sustainable.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: PUBLIC SERVICE WIRELESS, INC.
Contact: EDWARD KELLY BOND
(478) 8474111
psw@pstel.com
Project Title: Public Service Wireless Southwest Georgia Broadband Infrastructure
Description: Public Service Wireless, Inc., proposes a broadband infrastructure project of 4 wireless tower sites
in southwestern Georgia, which will utilize FCClicensed 700 MHz spectrum (B & C Blocks). This
project will use Third Generation Partnership Project (3gPP) standards for Time DivisionCode
Division Multiple Access (TDCDMA) and will allow for fixed and mobile wireless service to reach
11,482 homes & businesses. This project will bring much needed advanced broadband services to
counties including Randolph County and Clay County, which are Persistent Poverty Counties
within the state of Georgia. In addition, PSW and Fort Gaines Housing Authority and Cuthbert
Housing Authority intend to collaborate in leveraging the Housing Authority ARRA award as
detailed in this application.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: S \& B OPS MANAGEMENT, LLC
Contact: BILLIE ANN BOYD
(706) 6290921
dr.b@skywaveinternet.com
Project Title: Connecting Northwest Georgia to Wireless Broadband
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: S & B Ops Managment's goal is to expand our highspeed, broadband, wireless internet service
for more coverage in rural North West Georgia, particularly the counties of Gordon, Floyd,
Whitfield and Murray. By using cost effective pointtopoint wireless towers, we will provide always
on, high speed reliable service at low cost to otherwise non accessible areas in northwest Georgia
that do not have broadband service because of the remote locations of these areas.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: SOUTH GEORGIA REGIONAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AUTHORITY
Contact: LEON MITCHELL CONNER
(229) 7256132
lee.conner@sgrita.org
Project Title: SGRITA Rural Last Mile Infrastructure Project
Description: SGRITA proposes to deploy a Last Mile licensed 700 MHz and 2.5 GHz 4G mobile & fixed
wireless broadband network to extend service across 1,947 square miles of five rural southwest
Georgia counties. This area is remote with many portions more than 50 miles from any urban
areas. SGRITAâ€™s PFSA has 58% of households unserved with 97% of the PFSA geographic
area with no access to broadband service. This last mile network will pass 21,033 homes, 903
businesses, 171 Critical Community Facilities and 75 Public Safety mobile applications plus 1,369
farms and 4,900 irrigation systems. SGRITAâ€™s PFSA is defined by the five counties who
funded the startup of its operations in 2005. For the last several years, SGRITA has been the
largest provider of bandwidth in the region.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: WILKES TELEPHONE \& ELECTRIC COMPANY
Contact: JAYNE B. CALLAWAY
(706) 6789531
jbcallaway@nuz.net
Project Title: Wilkes Telephone Company FTTH BuildOut
Loan Request: $33,678,779.00
Description: The Wilkes Telephone Company FTTH BuildOut project will provide stateoftheart
communication services while enhancing broadband communication options to the current and
future citizens of Lincoln, Taliaferro, and Wilkes counties in Georgia. The network will pass 7,832
households and 802 businesses, providing infrastructure for affordable bandwidth and services,
and will integrate economic development, employment, education, public safety, public health, and
other government use. Technology deployed will be a FibertotheHome (FTTH) wireline fiber
optic cable network, configured in Passive Optical Network (PON) architecture, able to support
speeds in excess of 20 Gbps.
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Broadband USA
Hawaii
Applicant: ALOHA BROADBAND INC
Contact: ELTON THOMAS WILSON
(808) 9297668
support@alohabroadband.net
Project Title: Aloha Broadband Volcano Area Big Island
Description: Aloha Broadband will be providing affordable terrestrial fixed wireless broadband service to the
Volcano area, (KeaauMoutain View CCD), on the Big Island of Hawaii. The census blocks we
have chosen are not served by any broadband service providers.
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Broadband USA
(808) 9297668
Project Title: Aloha Broadband Lelani Estates
Description: Aloha Broadband will be providing affordable terrestrial fixed wireless broadband service to the un
served portion of Leilani Estates in the District of Puna on the Big Island of Hawaii. The census
blocks we have chosen are not served by any broadband service providers. The Lelani Estates
subdivision has experienced tremendous growth since the 2000 Census, so subscribers should
exceed projections.
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Broadband USA
(808) 9297668
Project Title: Aloha Broadband Hawaiian Paradise Park
Description: Aloha Broadband will be providing affordable terrestrial fixed wireless broadband services to un
served parts of Hawaiian Paradise Park on the Big Island of Hawaii. The census blocks we have
chosen are not served by any broadband service providers.
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Broadband USA
(808) 9297668
Project Title: Aloha Broadband Captain Cook
Description: Aloha Broadband will be providing affordable terrestrial fixed wireless broadband service to the
community of Captain Cook on the Big Island of Hawaii. The census blocks we have chosen are
not served by any broadband service providers.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: HAWAIIAN TELCOM INC.
Contact: STEVE GOLDEN
(808) 5463877
steven.golden@hawaiiantel.com
Project Title: East Hawaii Fiber Broadband Project
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Hawaiian Telcom will extend highspeed fiber broadband service to 6,181 households, 54
businesses and 31 Critical Community Facilities in the rural East Hawaii areas of Pepeekeo Point,
Hawaiian Paradise Park Makai, Hawaiian Acres, Fern Forest, Royal Hawaiian Estates and
Kalapana. HTâ€™s solution will deliver High Speed Internet service, allowing these communities
to gain firsttime access to affordable, reliable broadband services, and take advantage of online
educational programs, public safety communications, emerging telehealth services and work at
home opportunities. The project also plans to provide discounted broadband services to Critical
Community Facilities and Small Disadvantaged Businesses, and offer wireless carriers and ISPs
greater access to wholesale backhaul service.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: SANDWICH ISLES COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Contact: JUDI USHIO
(808) 2245159
jushio@sandwichisles.com
Project Title: Sandwich Isles Communications High Speed Broadband Network
Loan Request: $40,000,000.00
Description: This Project will bring high speed broadband to rural Hawaiian Homeland communities served by
SIC throughout the state of Hawaii. This project will complete SICâ€™s fiber optic underground
transport network including a Network Operations Center with full monitoring capabilities, and Last
Mile FTTP distribution facilities. Consequently, rural Hawaii will become a full participant in the
global community and share in the limitless possibilities unleashed by broadband. An added
benefit will accrue to all Hawaiians, since this stateoftheâ€“art transport network will allow other
telecommunication carriers, via network interconnection points, the opportunity to provide access
to high speed broadband to their own residence and businesses customer bases.
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Broadband USA
Idaho
Applicant: ADMINISTRATION, IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF
Contact: BRADY KRAFT
(208) 3321840
Brady.Kraft@ien.idaho.gov
Project Title: Rural Communities Broadband Initiative
Proposed Project Area: Idaho
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The Idaho Rural Communities Broadband Initiative is a public/private collaboration bringing fiber
optic infrastructure to rural Idaho schools, libraries and medical facilities. The project leverages
resources of the Idaho Educational Network (IEN) to build â€œlast mileâ€ telecommunications
facilities. Funding for the 24 anchor sites identified in this project establishes key infrastructure
within these rural communities, provides access to such broadband applications as distance
learning, telemedicine, telecommuting and telegovernment, and fuels economic development by
encouraging private sector broadband investment throughout each of these rural communities.
The incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECâ€™s) serving these rural communities will utilize
this infrastructure to make broadband available for approximately 5887 unserved households in
these 15 rural Idaho communities.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: CPST ENTERPRISES, INC.
Contact: PATRICK ANTHONY BOS
(208) 6916961
pbos16@yahoo.com
Project Title: Chatteroy Rebuild
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Supply High Speed Broadband Internet via a Fiber coax Hybrid Cable Television system
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Broadband USA
Applicant: DIRECT COMMUNICATIONS ROCKLAND, INC
Contact: JEREMY SMITH
(208) 5482345
jeremy@directcom.com
Project Title: Sterling/Springfield/Pingree area Broadband Project
Description: The Southern Idaho communities of Sterling, Springfield, and Pingree are located in an area that
is very rural and agricultural. These small communities are roughly 50 road miles northwest of
Pocatello, Idaho on State Highway 39. The economic development experienced in larger (but still
relatively small) communities such as Pocatello has not extended to the areas in part because the
American Falls reservoir separates the proposed funded service area geographically from the
larger communities. Deployment of broadband services in service area is the main intent on the
proposed project. We are looking at starting with a minimum 3 Mbps residential package with
higher throughput packages offered to the businesses. The proposed last mile service area
includes 451 households and 25 businesses are located within the proposed last mile service
areas.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: MIDVALE TELEPHONE EXCHANGE, INCORPORATED
Contact: STEVE CHILD
(208) 5500288
steve.child@mtecom.com
Project Title: MTE Last Mile Broadband Connections Initiative Young Service Area
Description: Project TitleMTE Last Mile Broadband Connections Initiative Young Service Area Project
DescriptionService including a minimum of 20 Mbps will be provided in rural areas of the Young
exchange using FTTH technology. The number of homes and businesses passed will be 236. The
number of jobs expected to be created or saved is 10. The cost of the ARRA BIP project is $
2,146,814.
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Broadband USA
(208) 5500288
Project Title: MTE Last Mile Broadband Connections Initiative Henderson Service Area
Description: Project Description: Project TitleMTE Last Mile Broadband Connections Initiative Henderson
Service Area Project DescriptionService including a minimum of 20 Mbps will be provided to the
Prescott Prairie, Mingus Meadows and Mingus Mountain areas of Henderson Valley using FTTH
technology. The number of households and businesses passed is 117. The number of jobs
expected to be created or saved is 10. The cost of the ARRA BIP project is $1,116,412.
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Broadband USA
(208) 5500288
Project Title: MTE Last Mile Broadband Connections Initiative Stanley Service Area
Description: Project TitleMTE Last Mile Broadband Connections Initiative Stanley Service Area Project
DescriptionService including a minimum of 20 Mbps will be provided to the rural town of Stanley
using FTTH technology. The number of homes and businesses passed will be 205. The number of
jobs expected to be created or saved is 10. The cost of the ARRA BIP project is $1,269,171.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: RURAL TELEPHONE COMPANY
Contact: SUSAN E CASE
(208) 3662614
susan.case@ruraltel.org
Project Title: North Fork, Tuscarora, and Jarbidge service area broadband service implementation
Proposed Project Area: Nevada
Description: The proposed project will extend ADSL2+ high speed broadband service to existing and new
Rural Telephone Company customers in the North Fork, Tuscarora, and Jarbidge, Nevada service
areas.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: SHOSHONEBANNOCK TRIBES
Contact: DAVID STAHLY
(719) 5945812
dstahly@gvnw.com
Project Title: Fort Hall Reservation Broadband Project
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The proposed network will reach all tribe members living on the Fort Hall Reservation and provide
a broadband pipe to each customer using either fiber to the home/business (FTTH) for residences,
small businesses, larger businesses, government agencies, tribal agencies, schools, and clinics in
the town of Fort Hall, ID or WiMAX wireless local loop (WLL) technology to rural residences and
small businesses. The wireline FTTH service will provide capability for speeds of up to 50 Mbps
per customer. The wireless network will provide speeds of up to 13 Mbps for the majority
customers (which live close to the towers) and up to 4 Mbps for the more remote customers.
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Broadband USA
Illinois
Applicant: 4 SIWI, LLC
Contact: CECILIA E PERRY
(618) 9977494
ceci@4siwi.com
Project Title: 4SIWI 5 County Expansion Proposal
Description: 4SIWI, LLC wishes to expand current coverage of High Speed Internet into 10 new regions in 5
counties. This expansion will be focused from wireless tower sites located in Akin, Corinth, West
Frankfort/Parrish, Makanda, Devils Kitchen, Z100/Creal Springs, Whiteash, and Rend Lake. This
project is to build wireless tower sites where there is no coverage in Southern Illinois.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: AERO GROUP INC.
Contact: THOMAS RUTTER
(815) 2333387 x210
tom@aeroinc.net
Project Title: Aero NW IL Rural Broadband Initiative
Description: The Aero Group, an Internet Service Provider (ISP) based out of Freeport, IL and operating since
1994, is proposing the Aero Rural Expansion, a project that will provide 100% broadband
availability to a large and mostly underserved rural area. Aero believes that the most cost effective
and reliable means of delivering broadband to this underserved rural area is to use fixed wireless
technology based on a hybrid WiMAX and proprietary Motorola Canopy Platform.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: AIM WIRELESS SOLUTIONS, INC
Contact: AHMAD ISSAM MALKAWI
(847) 3406250
amalkawi@aimws.com
Project Title: Last mile for rural areas in the state of MN
Proposed Project Area: Minnesota
Description: To deploy a WIMAX (802.16e standard) high speed broadband network in underserved and
unserved areas in the state of MN. The network will offer reasonable and affordable high speed
broadband data and voice over IP.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: BANICON INC
Contact: BENJAMIN KUEH
(847) 8750160
benk@cin.net
Project Title: CIN Net Central Illinois Broadband
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Provide High Speed wireless Internet connection to an area of Illinois including the following
counties. Bureau, Carroll, Cook, Dekalb, Dupage,Grundy, Henry, Kane, Kendall,Kankakee, knox,
La Salle, Lee, Livingston, Marshall, Ogle, Peoria, Putnam, Stark, Stephenson, Whiteside, Will,
Winnebago, Woodford and upgrade exiting towers to provide a better and faster wireless internet
connection to the communities. This serves to a area of population of 759,711, with 286,506
households and 38,594 businesses.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: CONVERGENCE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Contact: CHARLES WU
(312) 2052500
cwu@ippay.com
Project Title: CTI Rural Open Access WiMax Network
Proposed Project Area: Illinois, Indiana
Description: Convergence Technologies Inc (â€œCTIâ€ ) based out of Burr Ridge, IL is proposing the CTI
Rural OpenAccess WiMAX Network, a project that will provide 100% broadband availability at
fixed speeds of up to 20 Mbps and mobile nomadic speeds of up to 5 Mbps bundled with cutting
edge broadband applications to residents and businesses in an underserved area lacking rural
high speed access of 85,000 households spanning over 1,000 square miles with a project cost of
under $200 per household.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: CONXXUS, LLC
Contact: BARCLAY GOODWIN
(618) 4945069
sei1bg@starband.net
Project Title: Conxxus Last Mile
Loan Request: $25,842,467.00
Description: Conxxus Last Mile is a collaboratively rooted project that will bring the first ever ubiquitous, high
spped service to the 5595 sq. mile rural territory in East Central Illinois. Conxxus will draw local
anchor institutions and their populations into the 21st Century with highspeed internet capable of
delivering 100 Meg of speed to key anchor institutions, businesses, villages and farms. Conxxus
will help bring high caliber jobs and reverse an economic climate in rural areas in Illinois that have
been losing companies and educational opportunities due to the information divide, steadily in the
last decade. Working in conjunction with the State of Illinois, the participating communities and
their boards is not new to Conxxus. Having been in business delivering service to rural Illinois,
with this project Conxxus will be able to continue that "partnership".
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Broadband USA
Applicant: CYRSTAL BROADBAND NETWORKS
Contact: NIDHIN JOHNSON
(630) 2060447
cbn2@acrsokc.com
Project Title: Crystal Broadband Networks Southeast Arkansas WiMax System
Description: This project proposes to blanket 600 square miles of rural and economically distressed
communities with the latest in WiMAX broadband service which is presently over 90% unserved.
The project will offer a Broadband Lifeline Program. The Program will enable low income families
who qualify for Lifeline voice plans to receive discounted broadband services. This project will
create hundreds of long term job opportunities and will offer discounted service to all critical
community facilities.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: CYRSTAL BROADBAND NETWORKS
Contact: NIDHIN JOHNSON
(630) 2060447
cbn2@acrsokc.com
Project Title: Harry S. Truman Reservoir WiMax Project
Description: This project proposes to blanket 1,400 square miles of rural and economically distressed
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Broadband USA
Applicant: DJK LINK INC
Contact: KENNETH FRANK KOVACS
(618) 5222105
admin@djklink.net
Project Title: Extreme Southern Illinois Wireless Broadband Project (Last Mile)
Proposed Project Area: Illinois, Kentucky
Description: DJKLink intends to provide last mile service to customers in Extreme Southern Illinois. Our
expansion will cover the maximum amount of unserved customers as possible.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: DJK LINK INC
Contact: KENNETH FRANK KOVACS
(618) 5222105
admin@djklink.net
Project Title: Extreme Southern Illinois Wireless Broadband Project (Middle Mile)
Proposed Project Area: Illinois, Kentucky
Description: DJKLink Inc intends to expand their existing wireless broadband network to include those areas of
Extreme Southern Illinois which are unserved or underserved with highspeed broadband internet
service. This will include Middle Mile and Last Mile buildout and upgrade of our network.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: EOS, INC.
Contact: NEAL E MILLER
(217) 2416000 x6210
nmiller@eosinc.com
Project Title: Pleasant Plains Wireless
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Last mile project using licensed WiMax High Speed wireless equipment (3,000k down and 2,000k
up) for new market. WiMax technology provides exceptional penetration and range.
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Broadband USA
(217) 2416000 x6210
nmiller@eosinc.com
Project Title: Rochester Wireless
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Last mile project to replace slower nonlicensed technology (800k down and 300k up) with
licensed WiMax High Speed wireless equipment (3,000k down and 2,000k up) with much better
penetration and range than currently deployed technologies. The improved technology will reach
significantly more premises and provide better overall experience for end users.
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Broadband USA
(217) 2416000 x6210
nmiller@eosinc.com
Project Title: Jacksonville Wireless
Loan Request: $0.00
up) for new market. WiMax technology provides exceptional penetration and range of up to
eighteen miles.
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Broadband USA
(217) 2416000 x6210
nmiller@eosinc.com
Project Title: Mechanicsburg Wireless
Loan Request: $0.00
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Broadband USA
(217) 2416000 x6210
nmiller@eosinc.com
Project Title: Buckhart Wireless
Loan Request: $0.00
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Broadband USA
(217) 2416000 x6210
nmiller@eosinc.com
Project Title: Mason City Wireless
Loan Request: $0.00
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Broadband USA
(217) 2416000 x6210
nmiller@eosinc.com
Project Title: Atterberry Wireless
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Deploy last mile project to replace slower nonlicensed technology (800k down and 300k up) with
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Broadband USA
(217) 2416000 x6210
nmiller@eosinc.com
Project Title: Chatham Wireless
Loan Request: $0.00
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Broadband USA
(217) 2416000 x6210
nmiller@eosinc.com
Project Title: Greenview Wireless
Loan Request: $0.00
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Broadband USA
(217) 2416000 x6210
nmiller@eosinc.com
Project Title: Sherman Wireless
Loan Request: $0.00
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Broadband USA
(217) 2416000 x6210
nmiller@eosinc.com
Project Title: Auburn Wireless
Loan Request: $0.00
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Broadband USA
Applicant: KAIZEN NET, INC.
Contact: JON MCDONALD
(618) 9482000
jon@kaizennet.com
Project Title: Kaizen Net Rural Expansion Project
Description: Kaizen Net of St. Francisville, IL (pop. 759 in the 2000 census) proposes the South Eastern Illinois/
Wabash Valley Expansion (or SEIWVE, pronounced â€œsaveâ€ ) to serve a 100 percent rural
area that has a population density of only 7 households per square mile. The project will provide
broadband availability at speeds up to 3 Mbps in aggregate. This is precisely the kind of company
and service area that the RUS BIP program is designed to serve. The company already offers
discounts to local police and fire departments that request it, and also provides discounted service
to a local library. Kaizen Net welcomes the suggestion of the RUS BIP program that such
discounts be offered to all critical community institutions and SDBs in the service area.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: PAVLOV MEDIA, INC.
Contact: ANGIE ELLIS
(217) 3533024
aellis@pavlovmedia.com
Project Title: Central Illinois Broadband Network
Description: Construct a Last Mile wireless network project in 10 counties surrounding Champaign, Illinois.
Counties covered will include Champaign, DeWitt, Edgar, Ford, Iroquois, Livingston, Macon,
McLean, Piatt, Vermilion. The cities of Bloomington, Champaign, Clinton, Danville, Decatur,
Forsyth, Normal, Pontiac and Urbana are not included in the covered area.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: PEMBROKE, TOWNSHIP OF
Contact: LARRY GIBBS
(815) 9448069
larry.kwolek@yahoo.com
Project Title: PTG CONNECT
Description: Pembroke Township, Illinois is planning to establish PTGConnect,(Pembroke Township Global
Connection), wireless broadband network to serve the immediate tellecommunication and
broadband needs of the community's business, public institutions and residents. Currently, the
community for the most part, is 95% unserved with only 5% underserved. This condition will
continue to impede the econimic, job development and poor quality of life of the residents. Initially,
PTGConnect will create 35 jobs in addition to 100 jobs created by the Township's small business
incubator that is scheduled to open in October 2010.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: SATNET, INC.
Contact: DALE L EMERSON
(815) 4748554
demerson1531@yahoo.com
Project Title: SatNet Last Mile Broadband Enhancement
Description: SatNet will provide broadband access to populations lacking HighSpeed Internet in rural, north
central Illinois via advanced wireless technology. This project, servicing 5148 households and
1531 businesses, will promote inhome broadband access to customers who would otherwise be
limited in their choice of broadband providers. Additionally, it will stimulate small business
development, enhance agribusiness, and support public safety agencies as well as other
community anchor institutions. End users will be afforded opportunities to gain high end
broadband access at low end rates.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: SHAWNEE TELEPHONE COMPANY
Contact: MICHAEL GUFFY
(618) 2764211
mguffy@shawneelink.net
Project Title: Shawneeâ€™s FTTH Project: Focused Economic Revitalization & Sustainable Transformation of
Southern IL
Description: Shawneeâ€™s Southern IL Sustainable Broadband Transformation proposal provides an
opportunity for transforming citizens in underserved, lowincome areas into highly productive
members of the community by first empowering these communities with broadband technology.
Sadly, regarding perhousehold income and unemployment in Illinois, these communities rank
among the lowest and highest, respectively. Shawnee believes its proposal to develop a
broadband network will create new jobs and economic growth, and stimulate innovation and
investment. Shawneeâ€™s FTTH network is capable of 1 Gbps transmission speed and will serve
1,209 households, 438 businesses, and 35 anchor institutions, public schools, libraries, law
enforcement, and medical care facilities. Shawnee requests 85% loan and 15% grant for this
revitalization, costing just over $8 million, including $1 million of new, outside investment.
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Applicant: T6 WIRELESS, INC.
Contact: DANIEL HEATH
(815) 5473885
dan@t6mail.com
Project Title: T6 Rural Broadband Initiative
Proposed Project Area: Illinois, Wisconsin
Description: The T6 Rural Broadband Initiative will provide High Speed Internet access and affordable
telephone service to an 8 county area of Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin who currently
do not have High Speed Internet as an option. The initiative also upgrades the current T6
infrastructure to meet the everincreasing bandwidth demands of our customers. T6 Broadband
has over seven years of experience providing Internet access to the area and to date has brought
a large number of new jobs to the communities we serve. With this initiative, T6 Broadband will be
able to add even more jobs over the next year.
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Applicant: US SONET LLC
Contact: JOHN D ANDREWS
(618) 5483941
jandrews@ussonet.net
Project Title: US SONET 2
Loan Request: $14,968,135.00
Description: US Sonet is proposing a last mile fiber to the home project throughout portions of six counties in
south central Illinois. Those counties include Marion, Fayette, Jefferson, Clinton, Washington and
Montgomery. This proposed expansion area will connect every incorporated and unincorporated
community within the project area to a time tested "Triple Play" provider with a strong history of
quality products and unmatched customer service that is currently operating in this area. US
SONET's proposed expansion area will reach very rural portions of the counties mentioned, and
will provide them with 100 Mbps symettric broadband service, cableTV and telephone services. It
is the belief and philosophy of US SONET's president and employees that everyone, reguardless
of geographical location or economic status deserves the opportuinity to access the world wide
web.
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Indiana
Applicant: AXESS AMERICA LLC
Contact: STEPHEN TREXLER
(206) 4039006
strexler@holleranlaw.com
Project Title: Axxess America Indiana Highspeed Broadband
Proposed Project Area: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan
Description: Axess America LLC represents a totally wireless, ecofriendly solution for high speed internet to
rural areas in Northern and Central Indiana, whether they are unserved or underserved. Utilizing
the latest in wireless internet technology, solar power and topographically optimized tower
placement, Axess American will provide high speed internet to consumers, businesses and
education areas denied this service due to the limitations placed on them by their choice of living
in rural America.
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Applicant: GGF, INC.
Contact: BONNIE ALICE WRAYGERMAN
(574) 5810192
directlinetous@comcast.net
Project Title: FibertotheHome
Proposed Project Area: Indiana
Description: The existing service area is also the proposed known as SyracuseWawasee Lakes Area. This
project will offer voice, data, and video. The data service will offer three plans. Plan oneoffers
Internet speeds of 256Kb/s upstream and 256Kb/s downstream. Plan two offers Internet speeds of
1Mb/s upstram and 1.5Mb/s downstream. Plan three offers Mb/s Internet speeds of 1/Mb/s
upstream and 3Mb/s downstream. TDM voice service will offer both residential and business
packages. IPVideo will be the mean of providing video services. The FTTH equipment will be
centrally located and will be a Passive Optical Network using Gigabit optics. Limitation on the PON
will be 12.4 miles from the central office. The outside fiber will be designed to provide 1:32
concentration to convergence cabinets located in strtegic locations. CLEC currently provided by
U4 consists of voice grade services being resold Embarq
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Applicant: INDIANA TELEPHONE NETWORKS
Contact: BONNIE ALICE WRAYGERMAN
(574) 5810192
directlinetous@comcast.net
Project Title: Fiber in Monti
Description: The ulimate goal of this project is three fold.Frist, bringing fiber to Monticello and second to
Winamac will afford SugarDog the opportunity to serve large business with longneeded true
enterprise class internet service. Currently only the local telephone company is offering T1 style
service to large and medium sized bussiness.T1 service is expensive and leaves most
companies under served. The second goal of the Monticello Broadband Project is to blanket the
town and surrounding lakes with 802.11 b/g/n wireless service. By blanketing the community with
simple low cost broadband service SugarDog will effectively open broadband service to all who
desire service. The third is to run fiber to Carroll County along Lake Freeman. This will off IP Video
Service over IP and 802.11b/g/n Wireless Internet Service.
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Applicant: LIGHTNINGNET, L.L.C.
Contact: GORDON MYERS
(260) 4661031
gojack68@netzero.com
Project Title: We serve the unserved
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Through a series of wireless transmissions, we will get internet access to communities, municipal
and rual. We will provide Broadband internet to people, businesses, and all recipients who are
presently unable to receive this access. We will provide this service utilizing state of the art
technology and equipment necessary for dependable consistent access.
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Applicant: METRO FASTNET LLC
Contact: JOSEPH GILLIS COURSON
(502) 5531513
gil@metrofastnet.com
Project Title: Rural Expansion of The Metro FastNet Broadband Network in Southern IndianaKentucky
Proposed Project Area: Indiana, Kentucky
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Metro FastNet will to serve the last mile areas in the central Indiana 9th Congressional district,the
Kentucky 2nd and Kentucky 4th. The majority of these areas are unserved or underserved by
larger companies. We will partner with local governments to provide all children and students with
access to 21st Century broadband. 5000 unserved rural 112K school children will receive
connection via funding from this project. We also will partner with local communities to provide
primary and backup internet service for first response police, fire and emergency needs. Hospitals
will receive primary or backup service. Utilities can become more green by providing digital
monitoring of water and electric meters. This will allow leaks to be detected immediately. Solar
backup will be used to power our services. We have received numerous letters of support from the
communities in our service area.
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Applicant: NORLIGHT, INC.
Contact: NORMA MICHELE CARLTONZOGLMAN
(812) 4561258
norma.carltonzoglman@norlight.com
Project Title: Illinois VDB Network Expansion
Description: This fixed wireless deployment will consist of a network of 72 towers providing highspeed
broadband of greater than 5 Mbps to endusers. Counties covered include all or parts of Bond,
Calhoun, Cass, Christian, Fayette, Greene, Jersey, Macoupin, Montgomery, Morgan, Pike, Scott
and Shelby. A total of 130 Communities (Census Designated Places) are in the PFSA, designated
VDBEXP. There are 75,253 residential passes and we estimate 2,258 business passes,
accounting for those Served and Without High Speed cumulatively.
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(812) 4561258
Project Title: Kentucky Network Expansion
Description: This project will provide fixed wireless Internet access to unserved and underserved residents of
central and western KY. We will use 3.65GHz WIMax radios to provide >5Mbps service. This
project consists of 4 PFSAs that will pass 66,815 households and approximately 2,004
businesses: GRADDEXP PFSA expands our existing 7county GRADD area wireless coverage
area. This expansion will include 33 augmented or additional tower sites and will transition some
customers to WIMax equipment. SOKYLM PFSA provides coverage to 8 counties south of
GRADD counties and will include 103 tower sites. CrittendenLM PFSA consists of 9 tower sites
to cover Crittenden County, KY. WayneEXP PFSA expands our existing wireless coverage in
Wayne County. We will add 8 additional towers to this network as we extend coverage in Wayne
County and add Clinton County to the existing network.
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(812) 4561258
Project Title: Indiana Network Expansion
Description: This project will provide broadband highspeed wireless Internet access to areas of Harrison
County without access to such services. Reaching almost 27,000 people who currently lack high
speed broadband access. A single PFSA makes up this project: HarrisonIN: This fixed wireless
deployment will consist of a network of 30 towers providing highspeed broadband of greater than
5 Mbps to endusers. Communities (Census Designated Places) in the PFSA include Corydon,
Crandall, Elizabeth, Laconia, Lanesville, Mauckport, New Middletown and Palmyra. There are
12,757 residential passes and we estimate 383 business passes, accounting for those Served and
Without High Speed cumulatively.
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(812) 4561258
Project Title: Illinois Southern Network
Proposed Project Area: Illinois, Missouri
Description: This project will provide broadband highspeed wireless Internet access to areas of Southern
Illinois without access to such services. Reaching more than 66,000 people who currently lack
highspeed broadband access. Two PFSAs make up this project: Omaha: This fixed wireless
deployment will provide highspeed access to the community of Omaha in Gallatin County as well
as parts of the county outside of Omaha, all of which are unserved. SouthernIL: This fixed wireless
deployment will cover all or parts of the counties of Alexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson,
Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski, Saline, Union, White and Williamson, reaching 48 Communities
(Census Designated Places) within the PFSA.
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Applicant: OMNICITY, INCORPORATED
Contact: ERIC STEELE
(765) 5868420
eric@rareshare.org
Project Title: Omnicity Columbiana County Port Authority Rural Broadband Project
Description: Omnicity will provide broadband internet to four rural, unserved and underserved Appalachian
counties in eastern Ohio (Columbiana, Carroll, Harrison and Jefferson). Using fixed base wireless
technology, Omnicity will provide high speed internet access at a significantly lower cost and more
expeditiously than wire based systems. Omnicity has partnered with the Columbiana County Port
Authority to target unserved and underserved communities and their critical public and private
institutions. This project will provide service availability to over 48,000 households (over 14,900 of
which are currently unserved and without highspeed access); 5,700 businesses; and over 800
educational and government facilities, many of which are currently limited to dialup or satellite
internet as their only internet options.
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Applicant: OMNICITY, INCORPORATED
Contact: ERIC STEELE
(765) 5868420
eric@rareshare.org
Project Title: Omnicity Northern Indiana Rural Broadband Project
Description: Omnicity will provide broadband internet to 25 rural, underserved counties in central and northern
Indiana. Using 802.16e2005 compliant WiMax technology, Omnicity will provide high speed
internet access at a significantly lower cost and more expeditiously than wire based systems such
as DSL or fiber. Omnicity will target underserved communities and their critical public and private
institutions. This project will provide service availability to over 500,000 households (1.3 million
individuals), over 43,000 businesses, and nearly 7000 critical community entities, many of which
are currently limited to dialup or satellite internet as their only internet options. This project is
expected to create 59 jobs in the first two years during implementation and initial growth, with an
additional 13 jobs created in year three through five as the networks expands.
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Applicant: PERRY SPENCER RURAL TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE INC
Contact: JAMES M. DAUBY
(812) 3572123
jdauby@psci.net
Project Title: PSC Spencer Co., IN Rnd 2 Project
Description: It consists of a 2.5 GPON Fiber to the Home (FTTH) and a 3.65 GHz WiMax BB Network. This will
connect facilities, schools, libraries, health facilities, govâ€™t, residential or businesses. The rates
are proposed at 80 Mbps on the FTTH network and a min. of 3 Mbps on the WiMAX network. The
project will be connected to PSCâ€™s existing Service Area in Dubois and Perry Co.
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Applicant: SITCO, LLC
Contact: TOM KOLB
(812) 6184444
tkolb@sitcosolutions.com
Project Title: TriState Rural Broadband Development
Proposed Project Area: Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky
Description: SITCO, LLC (â€œSitcoâ€ ) of Evansville, Indiana proposes the Tristate Rural Broadband
Development project using reliable fixed wireless broadband equipment and a proven and
powerful backbone to deliver to service to a 100% rural area that is vastly underserved,
incorporating areas in Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky
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Iowa
Applicant: BREDA TELEPHONE CORP.
Contact: CHARLES J DEISBECK
(712) 6732311
cdeisbeck@westianet.com
Project Title: Breda and Lidderdale Town and Rural FibertothePremises Overbuild
Proposed Project Area: Iowa
Description: Breda Telephone Corp. proposes to overbuild two out of its seven rural ILEC exchanges which are
adjacent to each other in west, central Iowa, with fiber to the premises. The proposed project
overbuild would allow high speed Internet and video services to reach all of the customers in the
Breda and Lidderdale exchanges, in addition to their present landline phone services.
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Applicant: CENTRAL SCOTT TELEPHONE CO, INC
Contact: CHARLES L REBMAN
(563) 2859611
Butch@centralscott.com
Project Title: Central Scott Wireless Build Out Project
Proposed Project Area: Illinois, Iowa
Description: The Central Scott Wireless Build Out Project will serve one proposed funded service area (PFSA)
in rural eastern Iowa and western Illinois. The Central Scott PFSA consists of 45 communities and
their surrounding rural areas in Muscatine, Cedar, Scott, and Clinton Counties in Iowa and
Whiteside, Rock Island, Henry, and Mercer Counties in Illinois. In this PFSA, Central Scott
Telephone Companyâ€™s proposed network will pass 51,517 households and 1,356 businesses.
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Applicant: CLEAR LAKE INDEPENDENT TELEPHONE CO INC
Contact: THOMAS A. LOVELL
(641) 3578800
tomlovell@cltel.com
Project Title: Clear Lake Independent Telephone Company: FibertotheHome Broadband Deployment Project
Description: In an effort to provide superior service and connectivity to businesses and residences within their
traditional incumbent service area, Clear Lake Independent Telephone Company proposes a
FibertotheHome broadband deployment that will not only bring services to previously unserved
households, but provide improved service throughout the footprint.
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Applicant: COMMUNITY WIRELESS
Contact: JEREMY S CRAWFORD
(319) 8512101
jeremycrawford1972@gmail.com
Project Title: Community Wireless
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Community Wireless is a newly formed LLC designed to bring or increase the availability of
broadband internet services to rural communities that would otherwise be underserved or
disadvantaged by inadequacies of existing systems. Our mission is to provide broadband services
that enhance the quality of life in communities, increase economic viability, and resolve gaps in
information exchange.
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Applicant: ELLSWORTH COOPERATIVE TELEPHONE ASSOCIATION
Contact: JOSH ANGOVE
(515) 8364431
jangove@netins.net
Project Title: Ellsworth FibertotheHome Broadband Deployment Project
Description: The Ellsworth FibertotheHome Broadband Deployment Project will provide high speed Internet
service in the communities of Ellsworth and Garden City, Iowa, and their surrounding rural areas
via a fibertothehome network. This network will provide service to 502 households and 305
businesses in the area.
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Applicant: FARMERS\' MUTUAL TELEPHONE COMPANY
Contact: RENEE KNOOP
(641) 7492531
rknoop@omnitel.biz
Project Title: Farmers Mutual Telephone Company FibertothePremises Overbuild
Description: Farmers Mutual Telephone Company is proposing, in their application to RUS under the BIP
program, to construct a fibertothepremises (FTTP) network. The FTTP overbuild will allow
Farmers Mutual Telephone Company to provide greater than 20Mbps broadband access to 1,557
households and 72 businesses in the exchange areas of Floyd, Rockford, Nora Springs and Rudd,
IA.
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Applicant: FARMERS\' TELEPHONE COMPANY OF RICEVILLE, IOWA, THE
Contact: RENEE KNOOP
(641) 7492531
rknoop@omnitel.biz
Project Title: Farmers Telephone Company FibertothePremises Overbuild
Description: Farmers Telephone Company is proposing, in their application to RUS under the BIP program, to
construct a fibertothepremises (FTTP) network. The FTTP overbuild will allow Farmers
Telephone Company to provide greater than 20Mbps broadband access to 3,284 households and
148 businesses in the exchange areas of:Little Cedar, New Haven, Plymouth, Riceville, Marble
Rock, Greene, St. Ansgar and Stacyville, IA.
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Applicant: GRAND MOUND COOPERATIVE TELEPHONE ASSOCIATION
Contact: DON ROBERTSON
(563) 8473006
drobertson@gmcta.coop
Project Title: Grand Mound Broadband Deployment Project
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Since its start as a series of farmers with a shared telephone line in 1885, to its incorporation as
Farmers Mutual Telephone Company in 1902, to its current incarnation as Grand Mound
Cooperative Telephone Association, GMCTA has always had its roots deep into the heart of Iowa
farm country. Located in rural eastern Iowa, Grand Mound Telephone's Broadband Deployment
Project proposes to provide fibertothehome technology for its Grand Mound exchange, pushing
broadband services out to unserved portions of its service territory and bringing Internet
connectivity to rural locations.
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Applicant: HAWKEYE TELEPHONE COMPANY
Contact: AARON LOUCKS
(563) 4273222
hawkitel@netins.net
Project Title: Hawkeye, Iowa Rural FTTP
Description: The Hawkeye, Iowa Rural FTTP Project is a last mile, fibertothepremise project designed to
provide highspeed broadband services to the unserved and underserved rural customer premises
in the Hawkeye, Iowa telephone exchange located in Fayette County, Iowa. This project will allow
broadband connectivity to homes, businesses, schools, emergency services and other anchor
institutions in the area and will promote potential business growth and expansion of available
services to the community by these entities.
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Applicant: HOSPERS TELEPHONE EXCHANGE, INC
Contact: DAVE RAAK
(712) 7528100
dave@hosperstel.com
Project Title: HTC FibertotheHome Broadband Deployment Project
Description: The HTC FibertotheHome Broadband Deployment Project will provide high speed Internet
service in the town of Hospers, Iowa, and its surrounding rural areas via a fibertothehome
network. This network will provide service to 859 households and 168 businesses in portions of
Lyon, Oâ€™Brien, Osceola, and Sioux Counties.
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Applicant: IOWA TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES, INC.
Contact: DAVID PORTER
(641) 7872928
David.Porter@IowaTelecom.com
Project Title: Connecting Rural Iowa: HighSpeed Broadband Expansion 2
Proposed Project Area: Iowa, Minnesota
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Iowa Telecom proposes to establish new DLC/DSL nodes to expand highspeed broadband
capability to 80 proposed funded service areas throughout Iowa. Each project will consist of
burying fiber transport from the serving central office to the new node location or of connecting the
new node to nearby existing fiber cable or to fiber cable placed in the middlemile application that
Iowa Telecom also has filed in Round 2. The last mile networks that will be created through the
various projects in this application will be capable of delivering broadband speeds of 3 mbps up to
15 mbps for residential and business customers between their premises and the DLC/DSL node.
Areas that Iowa Telecom will serve with this project are primarily small outlying residential
communities. We anticipate that this project will pass approximately 9,939 households and a
relatively small amount of businesses
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(641) 7872928
Project Title: Middle Mile Fiber Expansion for Homeland Security and Rural Connectivity
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Iowa Telecom proposes to construct fiber optic facilities on 40 different routes between central
offices and other critical locations throughout Iowa. This project would replace interoffice copper,
provide diverse interoffice fiber between numerous Iowa Homeland Security County Emergency
Management Centers, provide Ethernet and TDM backhaul and eliminate several facility
bottlenecks. Iowa Telecom proposes to offer speeds from DS1 to OC48 transmission speeds or
100 mbps to 1 gbps Ethernet transmission speeds over this middle mile network. These
capabilities will permit vendors to offer highspeed retail broadband services in unserved/
underserved communities. Areas that Iowa Telecom will serve with this project are primarily small
outlying residential communities. We anticipate that this project will pass approximately 12,650
households and a relatively small amount of businesses.
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(641) 7872928
Project Title: Connecting Rural Iowa: HighSpeed Broadband Expansion 1
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Iowa Telecom proposes to establish new DLC/DSL nodes to expand highspeed broadband
capability to 42 proposed funded service areas throughout Iowa. Each project will consist of
burying fiber transport from the serving central office to the new node location or of connecting the
new node to nearby existing fiber cable or to fiber cable placed in the middlemile application that
Iowa Telecom also has filed in Round 2. The last mile networks that will be created through the
various projects in this application will be capable of delivering broadband speeds of 3 mbps up to
15 mbps for residential and business customers between their premises and the DLC/DSL node.
Areas that Iowa Telecom will serve with this project are primarily small outlying residential
communities. We anticipate that this project will pass approximately 2,908 households and a
relatively small amount of businesses
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Applicant: IOWA WIRELESS SERVICES LLC
Contact: TONY LEE
(202) 3448065
tslee@venable.com
Project Title: Advanced Wireless Broadband Services for Rural Areas in Southwest Iowa
Proposed Project Area: Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska
Loan Request: $22,046,836.00
Description: Iowa Wireless Services, LLC ("i wireless") proposes to provide broadband wireless service in 14
rural counties in Southwest Iowa. The project will employ advanced HSPA broadband technology
with speeds of up to 14 Mbps, with upgrade potential up to 168 Mbps. The wireless network will
give rural residents access to broadband services that most would not otherwise have due to the
high cost of deploying wireline services in rural areas. i wireless has specifically targeted this
project for areas outside of town and municipal boundaries as broadband wireline services in the
rural areas covered by the project generally do not extend far beyond those borders.
Approximately 28,854 households and 12,174 businesses will be passed by the project.
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Applicant: LOCAL INTERNET SERVICE COMPANY
Contact: DAVID LAWRENCE MAGILL
(641) 2097104
dmagill@liscocorp.com
Project Title: LISCO Des Moines and Lee Counties Broadband Project
Loan Request: $14,435,845.00
Description: To expand highspeed broadband into rural communities of Des Moines and Lee counties in
southeast Iowa using wireless and fibertothepremise technologies.
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Applicant: LONG LINES WIRELESS, LLC
Contact: MICHAEL SALSBURY
(712) 2714000
Mike.Salsbury@longlines.biz
Project Title: Siouxland Wireless Broadband Project
Proposed Project Area: Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota
Loan Request: $14,213,067.00
Description: Long Lines Wireless LLC, through the Siouxland Wireless Broadband project, will upgrade and
expand its existing wireless and fiber networks to provide highspeed HSPA+ broadband services
to rural, underserved residents, businesses, public safety agencies and critical community facilities
in NE Iowa and parts of SE South Dakota and NE Nebraska. HSPA+ is one of the most successful
and widely deployed commercial mobile broadband services available. The project will provide
quality broadband access to a total population of 585,353 and 24,081 businesses including 4,862
critical community institutions. Continuing its strong history of community partnership, the project
will provide a fully mobile broadband solution at speeds not previously available to promote
broadband usage, create jobs, and stimulate local economies in this rural part of America.
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Applicant: MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC UTILITY OF THE CITY OF CEDAR FALLS, IOWA
Contact: NEIL VERNON SHAW
(303) 5545854
nshaw@uptownservices.com
Project Title: CFU Broadband Expansion
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Cedar Falls Utilities (CFU) currently operates a hybrid fiber coax (HFC) system serving nearly all
homes and businesses within the city limits of Cedar Falls. This system has been operational
since 1996 and provides broadband service of up to 100 Mbps. If funded, CFU intends to extend
their broadband capabilities into an 89 square mile rural service area immediately north and west
of the current HFC system boundaries. This new broadband system will employ a combination of
state of the art broadband wireless (WiMax) and fiber to the premises (FTTP) technologies. In
doing so, CFU would increase the availability, affordability and adoption of broadband services
and speed in rural Black Hawk, Butler and Grundy counties. It is estimated that the proposed
funded service area is at least 90% unserved with broadband services.
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Applicant: SOUTHWEST TELEPHONE EXCHANGE, INC.
Contact: PAT MCGOWAN
(641) 7654601
pmcgowan@I35SWT.com
Project Title: Southwest Iowa FibertotheHome Broadband Deployment Project
Description: The Southwest Iowa FibertotheHome Broadband Deployment Project will provide broadband
service to the towns of Imogene, Emerson, and Henderson, Iowa, and their surrounding rural
areas via a fibertothehome network. The network will provide service to 587 homes and 55
businesses in Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, and Pottawattamie Counties.
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Applicant: WINNEBAGO COOPERATIVE TELECOM ASSOCIATION
Contact: TERRY WEGENER
(641) 5926105
terrywegener@wctatel.com
Project Title: WCTA 2010 Broadband Initiative
Proposed Project Area: Iowa, Minnesota
Description: WCTA will expand the existing portions of its fiber network by providing FTTP for rural portions of
about 21 communities in Iowa and Minnesota, and will provide bandwidth of over 5Mbps for
advanced voice, video, and data services. The proposed service area is 100% rural and serves
population in six counties. WCTA will utilize an experienced team of professionals to manage,
deploy, operate, and maintain this new infrastructure, contributing to project success, efficient
timeframes, and reducing the overall costs of deployment and maintenance.
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Kansas
Applicant: EAGLE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Contact: KURT K DAVID
(785) 6254000
kdavid@eaglecom.net
Project Title: Eagle Last Mile Upgrade
Description: Eagle Communications will connecting our current systems in the Abilene, KS area to the systems
in the Marion, KS area. All of the systems will be upgraded to 1Gig systems and we will roll out
DOCSIS 3.0 to better serve the High Speed Broadband needs of these communities.
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Applicant: H \& B COMMUNICATIONS INC
Contact: ROBERT KOCH
(785) 2524000
robkoch@hbcomm.net
Project Title: FTTH Rural Ellinwood & Claflin, Kansas
Description: This FTTH project will provide highspeed broadband to just over 750 households, 91 businesses,
and 23 community anchor institutions in the 62% underserved rural communities surrounding
Claflin and Ellinwood, Kansas.
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Applicant: HOME COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Contact: CARLA SHEARER
(620) 6543381
cshearer@homecomminc.com
Project Title: Rural Canton FTTP
Description: Home Communications, Inc. headquartered in Galva, Kansas, proposes to construct fibertothe
premises throughout the rural portion of the Kansas telephone exchange of Canton.
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Applicant: IDEATEK SYSTEMS, INC.
Contact: DANIEL P FRIESEN
(620) 5435003
daniel@ideatek.biz
Project Title: Prairie Light Project
Description: The Prairie Light Project is a nextgeneration broadband deployment opportunity using a Fiber to
the Farm (FttF) model to deliver a robust, scalable and futureready fiber optic communications
path to every rural farm, home, and business in an area over 361 square miles of underserved
South Central Kansas. The project includes only rural and mostly underserved subscriber areas
including some 2,200 households; approximately 247 businesses; and will help retain or create at
least 50 new jobs. Approximately 61% of the area is defined as underserved. This project was
developed by IdeaTek Systems, a Kansas Department of Commerce Merit Award winner with
experience providing local Fiber to the Home and ISP/telephone operator services, headquartered
in Buhler, Kansas.
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Applicant: IOWA TRIBE OF KANSAS AND NEBRASKA
Contact: ALAN KELLEY
(785) 5953258
akelley@iowas.org
Project Title: Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska FibertothePremise
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The Applicant, the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, is a sovereign American Indian nation and
is seeking to provide advanced communication services on its federallyrecognized lands. The
Applicant's 100 percent rural PFSA is effectively unserved by broadband today. Applicant has
designed an economical and sustainable FibertothePremise network that will serve the technical
needs of its people for many years to come. Granting this application would, in addition to bringing
broadband to an unserved rural area, lend support to other economic development projects being
pursued by the Applicant. Further, it would allow the Applicant to provision communication
services on its land, an action that has been recognized as a sovereign right by the federal
government. This application represents a remarkable opportunity not just for the Iowa Tribe but
for the whole country.
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Applicant: J.B.N. TELEPHONE COMPANY, INC
Contact: KARL KEN VANDERSLUIS
(785) 8662310
kvandersluis@jbntelco.com
Project Title: JBN East Towns
Description: JBN Telephone Company, Inc., headquartered in Holton KS., proposes to construct fibertothe
premises throughout six towns in their eastern exchange area. This includes the towns of Corning,
Goff, Havensville, Netawaka, Soldier and Wetmore.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: KANSAS BROADBAND INTERNET, INC
Contact: PHILIP L MILLER
(785) 8250199
lee@ksbroadband.net
Project Title: Eastern Kansas WiMax Project
Description: This â€œshovel readyâ€ project is a cost effective wireless network using 4G WiMax technology
to deliver high speed internet to rural areas. Key features of this network design are being able to
rapidly deploy robust service offerings into new areas at a fraction of the cost of wire line networks
and meeting the higher service level demands of todayâ€™s educational, entertainment and
business needs.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: PEOPLE\'S TELECOMMUNICATIONS LLC
Contact: KATHRYN M FAIRCLOTH
(913) 7572500
kathy@peoplestelecom.net
Project Title: Peoples Telecommunications Rural FTTP
Proposed Project Area: Kansas, Missouri
Description: Peoples Telecommunications, LLC headquartered in LaCygne, Kansas, proposes to construct
fibertothe premises within its certificated service area, the Kansas telephone exchange of
LaCygne.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: PIXIUS COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
Contact: JOHN E SMITH
(316) 2198596
jsmith@pixius.com
Project Title: Fixed Wireless Last Mile Infrastructure Proposal for Kansas and portions of IA, MO, NE and OK
Proposed Project Area: Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma
Loan Request: $19,222,382.00
Description: Pixius Communications, LLC is requesting grant and loan funding to construct a fixed wireless last
mile network that will support (1) the expansion of Pixiusâ€™ fixed wireless last mile broadband
service in rural unserved and underserved areas; and (2) provision of collocation space for public
safety agencies within the Proposed Funded Service Area (PFSA). The project covers 98 counties
in Kansas and certain surrounding counties in Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: SOUTH CENTRAL WIRELESS INC
Contact: ERIC L RYKER
(620) 9308060
eryker@sctelcom.com
Project Title: South Central Wireless Attica, Kansas Fiber to the Premise
Description: South Central Wireless, Inc., will construct a fibertothepremise infrastructure for Attica, KS (365
establishments passed) and offer voice and high speed services. High speed services ranging
from 1.5Mbps to 20Mbps (including symmetric rates) will be immediately offered to all consumers
and businesses in Attica. The proposed technology for this system will be immediately capable of
dedicated 100Mbps highspeed services for each customer without further investment of time or
finances. Attica does not have wireline facilitiesbased broadband service available. The 314
residences of Attica do not have access to terrestrial based highspeed services. The estimated
cost of the project is $4,639 per establishment passed and the award request is $3,062 per
establishment.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: TWIN VALLEY TELEPHONE, INC.
Contact: ERIC TABOR
(785) 4279517
eric.tabor@tvtinc.net
Project Title: Last Mile Broadband for Underserved Counties in Rural Kansas
Description: Twin Valley Telephone, Inc. (TVT) proposes to provide lastmile fixed and mobile broadband
access to underserved rural areas of northcentral Kansas. Using licensed and registered wireless
spectrum, TVT will leverage its existing stateofart fiber optic network and rely upon its
experienced management team in rapidly deploying affordable broadband service at speeds up to
10 Mbps. The proposed project will make affordable broadband access available to over 20,000
households, over 2,000 businesses, and 382 critical community facilities and public safety entities
in the proposed funded service areas. With construction ready to begin immediately upon funding,
the project will create at least 15 new jobs and provide twentyfirst century infrastructure for an
immediate economic boost and longterm rural economic development.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: WAVE WIRELESS, L.L.C.
Contact: GALEN MANNERS
(620) 4239283
galen@wavewls.com
Project Title: Wave Wireless Southeast Kansas Broadband Expansion Project
Description: Wave Wireless of Parsons, Ks (pop. 11,514 in the 2000 census) proposes the Wave Wireless
Southeast Kansas Broadband Expansion project, covering 849 square miles of rural Kansas land,
the vast majority of which has no access to high speed services. This 100% rural area has an
overall household density of 3.6 per square mile. Overall, the network will pass at least 72 critical
community institutions. Wave Wireless has always worked with the various communities of
Labette County, KS. It offers service to town governments and it offers service to schools. Most
importantly, it offers service to people. Today, broadband is no longer a luxury; for most, it is a
necessity. Currently, the network uses industrystandard unlicensed spectrum radios. Wave
Wireless, LLC plans to deliver significant upgrades upon the receipt of stimulus grant money.
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Broadband USA
Kentucky
Applicant: C N I WIRELESS INC
Contact: ROY TAYLOR
(606) 6798917
cniwireless@aol.com
Project Title: First 4G Broadband For Rural Kentucky
Description: CNI Wireless plans to construct a 4G mobile Wimax umbrella over the mountains and valleys of 7
counties of rural Eastern Kentucky. CNI Wireless effectively addresses critical infrastructure for
core community facilities including schools, hospitals, clinics, municipal buildings, libraries, post
offices, public safety buildings, churches and more, while enabling state and local efforts in
telemedicine, distance learning, library universal access, public safety communications, natural
disaster response and educational learning portals.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: DALEMEDIA, INC.
Contact: ROGER DALE HANCOCK
(606) 3073163
dhancock@windstream.net
Project Title: SNOWHILL NC FTTH
Description: DaleMedia proposes to build a fibertothehome network to provide high speed broadband to the
many unserved and underserved households in Greene County North Carolina. With this network
DaleMedia plans to to provide affordable broadband service to 7,205 households as well as 3,476
businesses, and 28 critical community facilities.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: FOOTHILLS RURAL TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE, CORPORATION, INC.
Contact: THOMAS E PRESTON
(606) 2979111
tpreston@foothills.coop
Project Title: Foothills Broadband Initiatives Project
Description: Fibertothepremise/Last Mile construction project in parts of Magoffin and Lawrence counties in
Kentucky.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: LIBERTY COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Contact: VONA VIRGINIA FUELLHART
(858) 3938995
vona@libertybb.com
Project Title: GC(FTTH)HCT/SC
Proposed Project Area: Indiana, Kentucky
Description: We want to provide high speed internet to the rural areas of Gallatin, Carrol, Henry and Trimble
Counties in Ky, and the southern portions of Switzerland County, In., In Gallatin county and a
portion of Switzerland County, In. we plan to build a Fiber to the home system, we already have
cable tv in some of this area and this would be a top of the line system that would provide 20 MBS
to the community, as well as an new Industrial Park being built in Indiana, this type of system will
bring many years of great internet access for both resident and commercial use. This system
would help to bring several hundred jobs to the community. We also plan to install additional
wireless internet systems to Henry, Carrol, and Trimble Counties, in Ky as well as some areas of
Switzerland County Indiana, This will provide at least 3 Mbs with easy access to subscribers.
THANK YOU.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: MAYFIELD, CITY OF
Contact: MARTY IVY
(270) 2474661
gensupt@mewsbb.net
Project Title: Mayfield Electric and Water Systems FTTP Network Project
Description: This is an application to the RUS' BIP program to construct a Fiber to the Premise (FTTP) network
that would touch each and every building, both residential and commercial, in Mayfield, KY. Each
of these buildings will be offered affordable voice, video and data services.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: MIKROTEC CATV, LLC
Contact: JAMES O CAMPBELL
(606) 4789401
jcamp@mis.net
Project Title: Connect Eolia, Oven Fork, and Partridge
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The proposed project would provide broadband Internet service to the small rural communities of
Eolia, Oven Fork, and Partridge in the Persistent Poverty County of Letcher County, Kentucky.
Residents of the proposed funded service area have launched a website, petition, and letter
writing campaign, declaring, â€œWe Deserve Broadbandâ€ (see
www.wedeservebroadband.com). As the local cable TV provider serving the proposed funded
service area, experienced project leaders aim to provide broadband Internet service to better
serve these isolated communities of Eolia, Oven Fork, and Partridge, tucked in a valley amidst
rugged mountain terrain deep in the heart of the Appalachian coalfields.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: PEOPLES RURAL TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE CORP, INC.
Contact: JOHNIE MICHAEL STIDHAM
(606) 2870050
stidhamjm@prtcnet.org
Project Title: Broadband Infrastructure Investment in Persistent Poverty counties: Jackson and Owsley counties, KY
Description: The project will provide broadband service to end users in Jackson and Cow Creek, which are
impoverished rural areas in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The project will deploy a fiber to the
premises architecture that will allow end users to experience broadband service at speeds of up to
18 Mbps and to enjoy the same economic, educational, and social opportunities that broadband
has afforded subscribers in neighboring communities.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: REIMER COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
Contact: RONALD JOHN REIMER
(859) 2269154
ron@mykrcc.com
Project Title: ACCESS OWEN COUNTY
Description: Just as twoway communication has always been utmost importance in the past, it is even more
critical to the present and future. This Loan/Grant application is submitted to improve
communication access to the majority of the population in Owen County. It covers approximately
111 square miles, incorporating 3100 housing units and 140 businesses. Our application is
designed to place fiber (HFC) to nodes (serving sections) throughout the cabled area. With fiber,
the existing coaxial plant can deliver with improved performance and reliability the
communications for voice, data and video. In areas where the coaxial plant cannot support the
services, fiber (RFoG) will be used to connect directly to the home. Signal technology will be by
RF in analog and digital format. Voice will ride on IP (Internet Protocol) transported to the headend
by digital RF which delivers both video and data.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: THACKERGRIGSBY TELEPHONE COMPANY, INCORPORATED
Contact: BRIAN BURCH
(859) 2319831 x206
b.burch@fecinc.com
Project Title: Breathitt County Broadband
Description: ThackerGrigsby Telephone Company plans to deploy a fiberoptic network in portions of Breathitt
County, Kentucky. This network will be capable of providing broadband internet access to end
users, community anchor institutions and public safety entities. It is ThackerGrigsby's intent to
bring affordable broadband access to this area to enhance economic development and education.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: WEST KENTUCKY RURAL TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE CORPORATION INC
Contact: MARTIN WATERMAN CLIFT
(270) 6741000
mclift@wk.net
Project Title: West Kentucky and West Tennessee Broadband FTTH Initiative
Loan Request: $61,900,001.00
Description: This project would construct fiber optic communication lines to the home(FTTH)throughout all of
the current operating territories of WK&T using the most up to date technology on the market. That
territory encompasses 21,072 households specified areas in eleven counties, in West Kentucky
and West Tennessee. Broadband internet speeds of up to 20mps will be offered. Such
construction would materially improve the economic foundation for that region for the immediate
and long term foreseeable future.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: WILLIAMSTOWN, CITY OF
Contact: DOUGLAS CARLTON CRUMLEY BECKHAM
(859) 8246351
dbeckham@wtownky.org
Project Title: Deployment of Broadband to Corinth, KY & Other Areas in Grant County, KY and Owen County, KY
Description: The City of Williamstown, KY ("Applicant")proposes to deploy high speed broadband services to
Corinth, KY and Other Areas in Grant County, KY and Owen County, KY ("proposed service
area"). The high speed broadband services will be deployed over a FiberToTheHome system.
The proposed service area is rural and unserved.
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Broadband USA
Louisiana
Applicant: BROADBAND IP, INC.
Contact: JOHN (JAY) H. LYLES
(225) 2927500
jlyles@iesolutions.us
Project Title: Louisiana Delta Wireless Broadband Initiative (LDWBI)
Proposed Project Area: Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi
Description: The Louisiana Delta Wireless Broadband Initiative is an important proposal for providing 3 mbps
high speed wireless internet to Louisianaâ€™s most unserved region. Its southern tip borders the
northern reach of Broadband IPâ€™s service region. It runs contiguously north to parishes
bordering the Monroe MSA through 14 parishes in the Delta Regional Authority. These are among
the poorest counties in the state and country, according to historical U.S. Census data. Broadband
IP is proposing this project because it is the best positioned wireless internet service provider to
serve these residents and businesses. The backbone of this last mile project will be built in
accordance with permits issued by the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development
to place our transmission equipment on their microwave tower network that runs south to north
directly through these 14 delta parishes.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: COMMAND CONNECT, L.L.C.
Contact: STEPHEN ROBERTS
(901) 7633333
SRoberts@wisteriacapital.com
Project Title: ConnectUS
Proposed Project Area: Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas
Loan Request: $42,683,629.00
Description: Command Connect, LLCâ€™s ConnectUS project will provide wireless high speed broadband
service in rural areas of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. The project will utilize LTE
and WiMax technology and will cover 551,651 households and 60,910 businesses. The project will
create a total of 274 jobs of which 162 will be construction jobs and 112 jobs will be within the
company.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: MONROE, CITY OF
Contact: BRUCE FREDERICK HOFFMAN
(985) 6460746
bruce@gulfgeoexchange.com
Project Title: City of Monroe Broadband Initiative
Proposed Project Area: Louisiana
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The City of Monroe will expand access to broadband within the City boundaries. The PPP will
assist the Act in the government's efforts to significantly expand the reach and quality of
broadband services. The PPP will spur job creation, stimulate longterm economic growth and
narrow gaps in broadband deployment.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: NEXUS SYSTEMS, INC.
Contact: MARK LYNN STEVENSON
(318) 3400750
msteve@nexussystems.net
Project Title: West Carroll Parish Infrastructure Project
Proposed Project Area: Arkansas, Louisiana
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: This private/public partnership, West Carroll Parish Infrastructure Project, will target 47 anchor
institutions in rural economically distressed West Carroll Parish. The project provides access and
use of fiber broadband services to under & unserved areas to increase jobs, spur investments in
technology, promote economic development, improve education and health care and enhance
public safety communications that are virtually nonexistent at this time.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: NIX COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
Contact: DAN NIX
(318) 3687467
billing@clearskywisp.com
Project Title: Union Parish Louisiana
Proposed Project Area: Arkansas, Louisiana
Description: Union Parish Louisiana is a mostly rural area with limited access to High speed internet service,
DSL is available in 4 small towns, and Centurylink Telephone Company has service in the
Northeast Corner of the Parish. This project will provide high speed to the majority of residents of
the Parish. There are several senior centers that will be given special consideration, as well as
reduced rates for seniors living at home on fixed incomes. Although this will be a for profit
business, it will also be a part of the community it serves with customer service and a good
neighbor attitude being at the forefront of the business.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: RURAL COMMUNITY BROADCASTING SERVICES
Contact: KENNETH DAWSON
(225) 7841013
bill@bdepewenterprises.com
Project Title: RCBS Wireless Last Mile & Optic Backbone
Proposed Project Area: Louisiana, Mississippi
Loan Request: $12,082,665.00
Description: The Rural Community Broadcasting Service (RCBS) project will provide the first ever 4G high
speed broadband Internet service to underserved areas in Central Louisiana, including West
Feliciana, East Feliciana and Pointe Coupee.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: SKYRIDER COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Contact: JAMIE MOORE
(318) 2672515
jamie@skyrider.net
Project Title: E.N.A.B.L.E. Enhanced Networks Advancing Broadband in Louisiana Economically
Description: This project consists of providing broadband connectivity to rural areas. this will be achieved by
using a combination of fiber and licensed RF microwave backhauls to distribution points
throughout the rural area. From these points we will deploy a WiMax product to provide
connectivity to residential, business, and government agencies. We are uniquely qualified for
approval of this application.
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Broadband USA
Maine
Applicant: SPX CORPORATION
Contact: KERRY W. COZAD
(207) 6558133
kerry.cozad@spx.com
Project Title: SPX Rural Wireless Solution
Proposed Project Area: Maine
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The SPX Rural Wireless Solution project is the deployment of 5 communication sites for last mile
wireless broadband access in rural Maine. The illustrative coverage areas would make service
available to nearly 88,000 persons. The coverage areas have a combined average population
density of 9 persons/square mile. With a project cost of approximately $200 per premise covered,
the system overcomes an economic roadblock to broadband access in rural areas where the costs
of running wire (cable or fiber) or installing multiple wireless transceiver sites are currently
prohibitive. Broadband service will be provided by existing ISPs, thereby expanding their existing
coverage areas. These initial sites can then be used as â€œmodelsâ€ for implementing the
technology across Maine and nationwide.
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Broadband USA
Maryland
Applicant: ALLCITY WIRELESS, LLC
Contact: PHILIP MCQUADE
(443) 9511392
philip@allcitywireless.com
Project Title: Delmarva Commonwealth Rural Broadband
Proposed Project Area: Virginia
Description: Residents of the southern portion of the Delmarva Peninsula need a broadband communications
network to have equal access to government and education services, and to participate fully in the
21st Century economy. The Delmarva Commonwealth Rural Broadband Project will create a rural
broadband wireless network to provide affordable highspeed wireless broadband connectivity to
all the households on the Virginia Eastern Shore.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: B\&B WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS GROUP, INC.
Contact: NEAL SMITH
(703) 6349514
neal@cclearsolutions.com
Project Title: Enhanced Broadband Access for Eastern Shore Underserved Communities
Proposed Project Area: Maryland
Description: iBurst America plans to bring wireless high speed and broadband internet access to underserved
rural areas on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. This service will establish a number of services and
enhancements to the local community. The availability of affordable high speed internet can
enhance the service offerings by the schools, colleges and universities to provide internetbased
resources available both on and off campus, libraries and public safety institutions would be able
to operate effective alert and informational services to their constituencies. The iBurst wireless
broadband network will offer service to more than 110,000 individuals, households, businesses
and community institutions. Using proven technology, iBurst America is uniquely positioned to
bring a highquality, high performing solution to communities that otherwise would have limited or
no high speed service.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: BROADBAND CONNECT INC
Contact: JOHN LEE HUGGINS
(301) 7065433
jhuggins@techalliancellc.com
Project Title: St. Mary Parish Louisiana Broadband Connect Initiative
Description: The Last Mile broadband network will include a mix of fiber optic and wireless technologies, with a
fiber optic Middle Mile backbone serving a series of wireless broadband cells. Last mile will be
delivered Parishwide, via fiber cable to the premise (FTTP) to subscribers, where there are
operational and/or economically reasons to do so; with WiMax wireless systems covering the
remaining subscribers. The intent is the provide the entire Parish with highspeed internet access.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: FREEDOM WIRELESS BROADBAND, LLC
Contact: BRUCE P HALL
(410) 2593901
bruce@fwbnet.net
Project Title: Carroll County Wireless Broadband System
Proposed Project Area: Maryland
Description: Freedom Wireless Broadband, LLC (FWB) proposes to build out a wireless broadband network to
provide Internet access service to all communities in Carroll County, Maryland. The project
addresses is the limited availability of high speed broadband access and unserved areas
throughout Carroll County. The proposed project will provide broadband speeds ranging from 756
Kbps symmetrical, up to 10 Mbps symmetrical to 52,465 households, 6301 businesses and 253
Critical Community Facilities in the Proposed Funded Service Area. FWB seeks to serve the
broadest possible scope of broadband users, creating a significant business and social impact by
raising the percentage of â€œonlineâ€ persons and organizations.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: JENESIS COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Contact: JEFFREY GILCHRIST
(866) 2689649
jgilchrist@jenesis.com
Project Title: Bertie County Broadband Installation
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: We propose to install an LTE communications tower and seven libraries near the receiving towers
in Windsor, Colerain, Merry Hill, Askeville, Aulander and Powellsville, North Carolina which will
provide broadband access to these last mile areas in Bertie County, North Carolina.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: LYRIC COMMUNICATIONS
Contact: LISA RICHLAND
(410) 6028012
lsrichland@gmail.com
Project Title: Industrial Heartland Broadband Initiative
Loan Request: $24,865,010.00
Description: Lyric Communicationsâ€™ Industrial Heartland Broadband Initiative will build a lastmile fiberto
thehome network to bring broadband services to underserved communities in the Lower
Anthracite Coal Region of central Pennsylvania. The network will offer an affordable tripleplay of
voiceoverIP, video and highspeed data to 37,902 households and 2,024 businesses in Americaâ
€™s first cradle of industrialization. The network is vital to spurring economic revitalization,
including growth in green energy research and technology development. It will create hightech
jobs, serve public safety entities at no cost for 5 years, and provide costeffective connectivity for
public service agencies at discounted rates. The initiative's SONETbased optical core uses 288
fiber strands to yield 10 GB/s of duplex bandwidth, providing reliability, redundancy, and scalability.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: UTOPIAN WIRELESS CORPORATION
Contact: RUDOLPH J GEIST
(240) 8219700 x101
rudy@utopianwireless.com
Project Title: Utopian Woodlawn WiMax Project
Description: This Project will bring WiMAX infrastructure to rural communities in and around Woodlawn, TN.
Utopian will provide 4G portable/mobile broadband access over licensed 2.5 GHz spectrum to
underserved households and businesses and provide discounted services to community anchor
institutions. The project prioritizes job creation and economic development through improved
access to broadband.
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Broadband USA
(240) 8219700 x101
Project Title: Utopian Conneaut WiMax Project
Description: This Project will bring WiMAX infrastructure to rural communities in and around Conneaut, OH.
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Broadband USA
(240) 8219700 x101
Project Title: Utopian Leoma WiMax Project
Description: This Project will bring WiMAX infrastructure to rural communities in and around Leoma, TN.
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Broadband USA
(240) 8219700 x101
Project Title: Utopian Transfer WiMax Project
Description: This Project will bring WiMAX infrastructure to rural communities in and around Transfer, PA.
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Broadband USA
(240) 8219700 x101
Project Title: Utopian Prague WiMax Project
Description: This Project will bring WiMAX infrastructure to rural communities in and around Prague, OK.
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Broadband USA
(240) 8219700 x101
Project Title: Utopian Wewoka WiMax Project
Description: This Project will bring WiMAX infrastructure to rural communities in and around Wewoka, OK.
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Broadband USA
(240) 8219700 x101
Project Title: Utopian Garrettsville WiMax Project
Description: This Project will bring WiMAX infrastructure to rural communities in and around Garrettsville, OH.
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Broadband USA
(240) 8219700 x101
Project Title: Utopian Mineral WiMax Project
Description: This Project will bring WiMAX infrastructure to rural communities in and around Mineral, VA.
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Broadband USA
(240) 8219700 x101
Project Title: Utopian Hornbeak WiMax Project
Description: This Project will bring WiMAX infrastructure to rural communities in and around Hornbeak, TN.
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Broadband USA
(240) 8219700 x101
Project Title: Utopian Hamilton WiMax Project
Description: This project will bring WiMAX infrastructure to rural communities in and around Hamilton, AL.
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Broadband USA
(240) 8219700 x101
Project Title: Utopian Riegelwood WiMax Project
Description: This Project will bring WiMAX infrastructure to rural communities in and around Riegelwood, NC.
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Broadband USA
(240) 8219700 x101
Project Title: Utopian Shoals WiMax Project
Description: This project will bring WiMAX infrastructure to rural communities in and around Shoals, AL.
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Broadband USA
(240) 8219700 x101
Project Title: Utopian Ashford WiMax Project
Description: This project will bring WiMAX infrastructure to rural communities in and around Ashford, AL.
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Broadband USA
(240) 8219700 x101
Project Title: Utopian Demopolis WiMax Project
Description: This project will bring WiMAX infrastructure to rural communities in and around Demopolis, AL.
institutions. The project prioritizes job creation and economic development in the community
through improved access to broadband.
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Broadband USA
(240) 8219700 x101
Project Title: Utopian Searcy WiMax Project
Description: This project will bring WiMAX infrastructure to rural communities in and around Searcy, AR.
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Broadband USA
(240) 8219700 x101
Project Title: Utopian Pelham WiMax Project
Description: This project will bring WiMAX infrastructure to rural communities in and around Pelham, GA.
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Broadband USA
(240) 8219700 x101
Project Title: Utopian Willard WiMax Project
Description: This Project will bring WiMAX infrastructure to rural communities in and around Willard, NC.
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Broadband USA
(240) 8219700 x101
Project Title: Utopian Monmouth WiMax Project
Description: This Project will bring WiMAX infrastructure to rural communities in and around Monmouth, IL.
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Broadband USA
(240) 8219700 x101
Project Title: Utopian Flora WiMax Project
Description: This Project will bring WiMAX infrastructure to rural communities in and around Flora, IL. Utopian
will provide 4G portable/mobile broadband access over licensed 2.5 GHz spectrum to
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Broadband USA
(240) 8219700 x101
Project Title: Utopian Bushnell WiMax Project
Description: This Project will bring WiMAX infrastructure to rural communities in and around Bushnell, IL.
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Broadband USA
(240) 8219700 x101
Project Title: Utopian White Hall WiMax Project
Description: This Project will bring WiMAX infrastructure to rural communities in and around White Hall, IL.
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Broadband USA
(240) 8219700 x101
Project Title: Utopian Moberly WiMax Project
Description: This project will bring WiMAX infrastructure to rural communities in and around Moberly, MO.
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Broadband USA
(240) 8219700 x101
Project Title: Utopian Benton WiMax Project
Description: This project will bring WiMAX infrastructure to rural communities in and around Benton, MO.
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Broadband USA
(240) 8219700 x101
Project Title: Utopian Cairo WiMax Project
Description: This Project will bring WiMAX infrastructure to rural communities in and around Cairo, IL. Utopian
will provide 4G portable/mobile broadband access over licensed 2.5 GHz spectrum to
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Broadband USA
(240) 8219700 x101
Project Title: Utopian Kinsman WiMax Project
Description: This Project will bring WiMAX infrastructure to rural communities in and around Kinsman, OH.
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Massachusetts
Applicant: VANU COVERAGE CO.
Contact: ALOK SHAH
(617) 8641711 x201
abshah@vanu.com
Project Title: OpenAccess Mobile Broadband for Rural Maine
Loan Request: $29,481,042.00
Description: Vanu Coverage Co. proposes to deploy a multistandard wireless network that provides open
access to existing retail mobile wireless operators. This unique approach will bring voice and
broadband data, as well as service provider choice, to unserved and underserved areas in
Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine where broadband deployments previously have been cost
prohibitive. This application describes the portion of the network in Maine with which we propose
to offer service to almost 139,000 households and over 17,000 businesses.
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Broadband USA
Contact: ALOK SHAH
(617) 8641711 x201
abshah@vanu.com
Project Title: OpenAccess Mobile Broadband for Rural Vermont
Proposed Project Area: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont
Loan Request: $11,510,958.00
prohibitive. This application describes the portion of the network in Vermont with which we
propose to offer service to almost 77,000 households and over 11,000 businesses.
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Contact: ALOK SHAH
(617) 8641711 x201
abshah@vanu.com
Project Title: OpenAccess Mobile Broadband for Rural New Hampshire
Proposed Project Area: New Hampshire, Vermont
prohibitive. This application describes the portion of the network in New Hampshire with which we
propose to offer service to almost 19,000 households and 2,800 businesses.
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Applicant: VITREUM COMMUNICATIONS GROUP LLC
Contact: JAMES A GLAVIN
(508) 6933322
jag@texelcom.com
Project Title: Dukes County, Massachusetts FTTx Project
Proposed Project Area: Massachusetts
Loan Request: $62,325,150.00
Description: This project will build a fiber to the premises, last mile, active (AON) network delivering ultra
broadband, synchronous data, carrier class telephony, digital multimedia, and wireless
applications across Marthaâ€™s Vineyard and Cuttyhunk, an unserved and under served rural
area. The network includes Serving Fiber Centers connected via a fiber transport ring anchored by
an island CO, accessing the mainland via a purposebuilt submarine fiber cable, connecting two
network operating centers (NOC) by an arrangement with the Open Cape Initiative, a Round 1
NTIA middle mile grant recipient. Backup digital microwave links to the mainland will connect
directly to the company NOC where headend, data and satellite equipment reside. Open
connectivity from 15Mbps to 10Gbps will be offered across all served areas to all businesses and
households and discounted to community and governmental entities.
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Michigan
Applicant: AGRIVALLEY BROADBAND, INC.
Contact: EDWIN H EICHLER
(989) 4534391
eheichler@avci.net
Project Title: Northern Michigan Broadband Upper Peninsula
Description: Northern Michigan BroadbandUP is a shovel ready economic development and broadband
infrastructure project focused on unserved and underserved areas in six (6) eastern counties of
Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and will bring state of the art high speed wireless Long Term
Evolution (LTE) broadband over a 700 MHz licensed frequency, providing data services up to 50
Mb/s to over 43,000 homes, 3700 businesses and 1125 anchor institutions. The project has been
strategically designed to provide wireless broadband to end users in rural areas that cannot
economically be reached by cable or fiber connections but will support roaming Internet access via
cell phones and handheld devices. The infrastructure will meet the current and future needs of the
proposed service area. Funding for this project will create roughly 170 new jobs with the total cost
being $13,315,190.
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(989) 4534391
eheichler@avci.net
Project Title: Northern Michigan Broadband Northwest
Description: Northern Michigan Broadband NW is a shovel ready economic development and broadband
infrastructure project focused on unserved and underserved areas in nine (9) northwestern
counties of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, and will bring state of the art high speed wireless Long
Term Evolution (LTE) broadband over a 700 MHz licensed frequency, providing data services up
to 50 Mb/s to almost 112,000 homes, 12,229 businesses and 2923 anchor institutions. The project
has been strategically designed to provide wireless broadband to end users in rural areas that
cannot economically be reached by cable or fiber connections but will support roaming Internet
access via cell phones and handheld devices. The infrastructure will meet the current and future
needs of the proposed service area. Funding for this project will create roughly 190 new jobs with
the total cost being $14,968,131.
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(989) 4534391
eheichler@avci.net
Project Title: Northern Michigan Broadband Southeast
Description: Northern Michigan Broadband SE is a shovel ready economic development and broadband
infrastructure project focused on unserved and underserved areas in eight (8) southeastern
to 50 Mb/s to over 93,200 homes, 6,252 businesses and 1,417 anchor institutions. The project has
been strategically designed to provide wireless broadband to end users in rural areas that cannot
proposed service area. Funding for this project will create an expected 169 new jobs with the total
cost being $13,245,890.
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(989) 4534391
eheichler@avci.net
Project Title: Northern Michigan Broadband Northeast
Description: Northern Michigan Broadband NE is a shovel ready economic development and broadband
infrastructure project focused on unserved and underserved areas in 8 northeastern counties of
Michigan's Lower Peninsula, and will bring high speed wireless Long Term Evolution (LTE)
broadband over a 700 MHz licensed frequency, providing data services up to 50 Mb/s to over
64,400homes, 4,855 businesses and over 1,200 anchor institutions. The project has been
strategically designed to provide wireless broadband to end users in rural areas that cannot
proposed service area. Funding for this project will create approximately 180 new jobs with the
total cost of this project being $14,033,474.
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(989) 4534391
eheichler@avci.net
Project Title: Northern Michigan Broadband Southwest
Description: Northern Michigan Broadband SW is a shovel ready economic development and broadband
infrastructure project focused on unserved and underserved areas in eight (8) southwestern
to 50 Mb/s to over 113,000 homes, 7,626 businesses and 2,016 anchor institutions. The project
has been strategically designed to provide wireless broadband to end users in rural areas that
cannot economically be reached by cable or fiber connections but will support roaming Internet
access via cell phones and handheld devices. The infrastructure will meet the current and future
needs of the proposed service area. Funding for this project will create 184 new jobs with the total
cost being $14,622,156.
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Applicant: AIR ADVANTAGE LLC
Contact: SCOTT ZIMMER
(989) 6529500
szimmer@airadvantage.net
Project Title: Michigan Thumb Area Broadband Expansion Project II
Loan Request: $32,300,000.00
Description: This project will bring Broadband to Last Mile consumers in 13 counties which make up an area
commonly known as the Great Lakes Bay Region and Thumb Area of Michigan. Over 304,000
households will have access to Broadband services up to and in excess of 3MB as a result of this
project. This project will use a hybrid system of fiber and wireless technologies to deliver voice and
data to currently underserved residents. This project will create up to 142 direct jobs and nearly
400 indirect and induced jobs upon successful funding.
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Applicant: ALLBAND COMMUNICATIONS COOPERATIVE
Contact: RONALD KERNER SIEGEL
(989) 3699999
ron.siegel@allband.org
Project Title: Allband F.I.B.E.R. I : Federal Investment in Broadband for Economic Recovery I
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Provide Â Fiber to the Home (FTTH) last mile highspeed data and VoIP services to Allband
Communications Cooperative's surrounding rural community in Northeastern Michigan. New
access to broadband over fiber will spur economic activity in one of the most economically
distressed states in our country and create/save jobs. Subscribers will enjoy an enhanced quality.
Anchor Institutions will also benefit from the new services.
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Applicant: ALLBAND COMMUNICATIONS COOPERATIVE
Contact: RONALD KERNER SIEGEL
(989) 3699999
ron.siegel@allband.org
Project Title: Allband F.I.B.E.R. II: Federal Investment in Broadband for Economic Recovery II
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Provide Fiber to the Home (FTTH) last mile highspeed data and VoIP services to Allband
Communications Cooperative's surrounding rural community in Northeastern Michigan. New
access to broadband over fiber will spur economic activity in one of the most economically
distressed states in our country and create/save jobs. Subscribers will enjoy an enhanced quality.
Anchor Institutions will also benefit from the new services.
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Applicant: AZULSTAR MOBILE NM LLC
Contact: TYLER VAN HOUWELINGEN
(616) 6389057
tyler@azulstar.com
Project Title: Comprehensive Community Application for New Mexico WiMAX
Description: AzulStar, together with private investors, partner New Mexico ISPs, local community and public
institutions are seeking ARRA stimulus grants/loans for the creation of a 4G wireless broadband
network for the rural and underserved areas within 5 counties in New Mexico. AzulStar will deploy
mobile 2.5GHz WiMAX, which is a nonproprietary, 4th generation (4G) wireless broadband
technology that outpaces all other broadband technologies for both price and performance. The
innovative network will use some 60MHz of licensed spectrum at 2.5GHz to deliver fixed and
mobile connections of 10Mbps and beyond. The highly advanced system will have a lasting
impact on New Mexico by creating a platform for innovation and sustainable economic growth.
Given the highly rural and sparse nature of the area being targeted, federal financial assistance is
essential in order to make this vision a reality.
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Applicant: BANYAN ONLINE SERVICES LLC
Contact: ANTHONY E CHEVALIER
(810) 3923593
tony@banyanol.com
Project Title: Townships left behind in St Clair County Michigan
Description: Our project is a last mile project and will make use of 4G WiMax technology to provide broadband
internet service to proposed areas of St Clair County Michigan. The project will make use of
existing tower structures in the County for deployment of the service. As part of our service
offering we will offer discounted service to Anchor Institutions and Small Disadvantaged Business.
Included in the coverage is a county park. We will work with the County to make WIFI service
available to residents while visiting the park. The equipment provider has been approved by RUS
for rural deployment and is capable of speeds in excess of the NOFA requirement. Currently there
are no options for broadband service in our proposed service area. One of our letters of support
states that one township has contacted a cable company and was unsuccessful in bringing
broadband service to their township.
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Applicant: BBT WIRELESS
Contact: SERENA ALEXANDRA NORRIS
(616) 7266040
snorris@hanc.com
Project Title: BB Wireless HMI
Description: This last mile project will bring wireless highspeed internet service, internet telephony services,
and other broadband applications in accordance with the goals of the Rural Utilities Services
Broadband Initiative Program (BIP) to many unserved and underserved communities and
residences of this rural area in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
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Applicant: BOARDMAN RIVER COMMUNICATIONS
Contact: GARY LEE JOHN
(231) 3692500
gary@brconline.net
Project Title: Traverse Bay Broadband Initiative
Loan Request: $24,398,859.00
Description: Boardman River Communications with TBEDCâ€™s 5 County Study, proposes a Fibertothe
Premise (FTTP) broadband network with a Gigabit Internet access to chronically underserved
Kalkaska County and Eastern rural Grand Traverse County, MI. This 598mile fiber optic network
connects 11,238 homes, 821 businesses and 107 Critical Facilities within 17 twps covering 598sq
mi. Building on Merit's Round I REACH3MC Network, we will be open to other providers needed
to enhance our Federally Recognized Recovery Zone. As a rural part of MI Lower Peninsula,
Kalkaska County & adjacent Townships average 30 residents per square mile. 2000 US Census
states our per capita income is $16,309; significantly below the National average of $30,906. Less
than 10% of our population has a bachelorâ€™s degree or higher compared to the Michigan
average of 21.8%. This project adds 80+ local jobs and saves 225+ local jobs
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Applicant: CARR TELEPHONE COMPANY
Contact: MITCH BOGNER
(231) 8982244
mbogner@carrinter.net
Project Title: Carr Telephone BIP for Lake County, Michigan, 2010 Winter Program
Description: This Project delivers a broadband solution using BPON FTTH and Motorola Point to Multipoint
Wireless Technologies, to serve the underserved and unserved areas of Lake County, Michigan.
Located in the north western part of the State, Lake County is a very rural and depressd part of
Michigan. It contains three existing served areas, Baldwin and Luther, both served by AT&T with
copper DSL to 18KF from their central office locations.The third Location is served by CARR
Telephone. Existing services for are located within Sweetwater Township and Lake Township and
serves Telephone, Broadband Services as well as Cable Television. Carr proposes to extend its
serving areas into the underserved and unserved areas of Lake County. Without this funding there
is little chance that residents would be able to access high speed broadband services within the
existing underserved lake community areas.
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Applicant: CHERRY CAPITAL CONNECTION, LLC
Contact: TIMOTHY G MAYLONE
(231) 5905217
tim@cccwifi.com
Project Title: ERBroadband Area Maximization (ERBAM) in support of education, libraries and economic
development
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: ERBAM a citizen grass root effort working to create a business strategy to utilize broadband to
the maximum potential. Our focus area is defined as all areas incorporating the Elk Rapids,
Woodland, Benzie County and FrankfortElberta Schools. We believe the full use of broadband
will return the maximum benefit for education, medical, agriculture, governmental, cultural, public
safety.
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Applicant: CHIPPEWA, COUNTY OF
Contact: MICHAEL WYLIE
(636) 6340109
mike@championmanagement.net
Project Title: Eastern Upper Penninsula Project
Loan Request: $18,521,702.00
Description: The Eastern Upper Peninsula Fiber Project is a coalition of local government working with private
businesses to bring fiber to the rural EUP of Michigan. This is a combined cooperative effort
between government agencies and private business to develop the comprehensive plan for the
fiber transport network. This network will be an open network that will allow multiple providers to
get their services out to everyone in the rural EUP of Michigan. Chippewa County is the lead
applicant for the grant to build a cost effective Last Mile fiber to the Home network. Luce County
and Mackinac County have joined Chippewa in their Grant application to cover the entire area in
the fiber network. These three counties share borders and many public service, law enforcement
and health agencies are linked between the counties. This network will cover 2,363 miles and
reach 14,950 homes in the three counties.
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Applicant: CLIMAX TELEPHONE COMPANY
Contact: SCOTT DAVID BOWLES
(260) 6278888
grants@spectrumeng.com
Project Title: FTTX BROADBAND SERVICE TO RURAL CLIMAX, MI
Description: Climax Telephone Company (CTC) ILEC serves the rural communities of Climax and Scotts, MI. It
is CTC's desire to connect the Climax and Scotts communities to the municipal, public safety,
education, medical and business communities of metropolitan Battle Creek and Kalamazoo, MI.
The funding request is to overbuild the rural and underserved ILEC service territory with FTTx
including 781 home and 51 business passings upgrade the video headend to digital, and add
high definition programming.
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Applicant: CRYSTAL AUTOMATION SYSTEMS, INC
Contact: STEVEN ROBERT MEINHARDT
(989) 3307788
steve@casair.net
Project Title: Mid Michigan Broadband ARRA Project
Description: This project provides highspeed broadband to rural households and businesses over fixed
Wireless WiMax and fiber optic cable that have no other options. The fiber optic backhaul installed
between towers is routed past the majority of anchor institutions and more densely populated
areas. This makes available very highcapacity to health care, libraries, schools, colleges,
government, public housing, community organizations and cell towers. This infrastructure will
handle todayâ€™s needs and will become the foundation for future needs.
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Applicant: CUSTOM SOFTWARE, INC.
Contact: GLENN A WILSON
(989) 6851001
glenn@customsoft.net
Project Title: Northeast Michigan Broadband Deployment
Loan Request: $64,753,180.00
Description: This project proposes to build a network of fibertothehome facilities and a number of fixed
wireless towers to offer broadband services to the unserved residents in nine counties in the
northeastern portion of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. All areas, where existing service is greater
than 1 Mbps, have been excluded from this proposal. This project will also benefit all anchor
institutions, especially those with issues around homeland security, and educational growth
opportunities in schools and libraries.
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Applicant: INDUSTRIAL GRADE BROADBAND
Contact: GLENN PATRICK BRADY
(734) 4783260
glenn.brady@igbllc.com
Project Title: "A Green Bridge to Everywhere" Crawford County, Michigan
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: IGBâ€™s â€œA Green Bridge to Everywhere â€“ Crawford County, Michiganâ€ project will
utilize a futureproof network and a hybrid PONBPL last mile solution to reach 1,459 under and
unserved rural households in Crawford County, Michigan. With a 50% penetration rate, we expect
the project to cost $705.59/home passed and a total project cost of $617,737 for the county. This
project will serve a target population of approximately 730 users and support an average speed of
at least 15Mbps/user.
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(734) 4783260
Project Title: "A Green Bridge to Everywhere" Lenawee County, Michigan
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: IGBâ€™s â€œA Green Bridge to Everywhere â€“ Lenawee County, Michiganâ€ project will
unserved rural households in Lenawee County, Michigan. With a 50% penetration rate, we expect
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(734) 4783260
Project Title: "A Green Bridge to Everywhere" Otsego County, Michigan
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: IGBâ€™s â€œA Green Bridge to Everywhere â€“ Otsego County, Michiganâ€ project will utilize
a futureproof network and a hybrid PONBPL last mile solution to reach 1,578 under and un
served rural households in Otsego County, Michigan. With a 50% penetration rate, we expect the
project to cost $665.46/home passed and a total project cost of $630,014 for the county. This
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(734) 4783260
Project Title: "A Green Bridge to Everywhere" Emmet County, Michigan
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: IGBâ€™s â€œA Green Bridge to Everywhere â€“ Emmet County, Michiganâ€ project will utilize
served rural households in Emmet County, Michigan. With a 50% penetration rate, we expect the
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(734) 4783260
Project Title: "A Green Bridge to Everywhere" Iosco County, Michigan
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: IGBâ€™s â€œA Green Bridge to Everywhere â€“ Iosco County, Michiganâ€ project will utilize a
futureproof network and a hybrid PONBPL last mile solution to reach 1,643 under and unserved
rural households in Iosco County, Michigan. With a 50% penetration rate, we expect the project to
cost $645.81/home passed and a total project cost of $636,609 for the county. This project will
serve a target population of approximately 821 users and support an average speed of at least
15Mbps/user.
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(734) 4783260
Project Title: "A Green Bridge to Everywhere" Manistee County, Michigan
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: IGBâ€™s â€œA Green Bridge to Everywhere â€“ Manistee County, Michiganâ€ project will
unserved rural households in Manistee County, Michigan. With a 50% penetration rate, we expect
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(734) 4783260
Project Title: "A Green Bridge to Everywhere" Grand Traverse County, Michigan
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: IGBâ€™s â€œA Green Bridge to Everywhere â€“ Grand Traverse County, Michiganâ€ project
will utilize a futureproof network and a hybrid PONBPL last mile solution to reach 2,111 under
and unserved rural households in Grand Traverse County, Michigan. With a 50% penetration
rate, we expect the project to cost $557.61/home passed and a total project cost of $706,252 for
the county. This project will serve a target population of approximately 1,055 users and support an
average speed of at least 15Mbps/user.
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(734) 4783260
Project Title: "A Green Bridge to Everywhere" Cheboygan County, Michigan
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: IGBâ€™s â€œA Green Bridge to Everywhere â€“ Cheboygan County, Michiganâ€ project will
unserved rural households in Cheboygan County, Michigan. With a 50% penetration rate, we
expect the project to cost $494.17/home passed and a total project cost of $749,565 for the
county. This project will serve a target population of approximately 1,264 users and support an
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(734) 4783260
Project Title: "A Green Bridge to Everywhere" Mason County, Michigan
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: IGBâ€™s â€œA Green Bridge to Everywhere â€“ Mason County, Michiganâ€ project will utilize
served rural households in Mason County, Michigan. With a 50% penetration rate, we expect the
project will serve a target population of approximately 1,188 users and support an average speed
of at least 15Mbps/user.
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(734) 4783260
Project Title: "A Green Bridge to Everywhere" Muskegon County, Michigan
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: IGBâ€™s â€œA Green Bridge to Everywhere â€“ Muskegon County, Michiganâ€ project will
unserved rural households in Muskegon County, Michigan. With a 50% penetration rate, we
expect the project to cost $539.20/home passed and a total project cost of $790,741 for the
county. This project will serve a target population of approximately 1,467 users and support an
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(734) 4783260
Project Title: "A Green Bridge to Everywhere" Monroe County, Michigan
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: IGBâ€™s â€œA Green Bridge to Everywhere â€“ Monroe County, Michiganâ€ project will utilize
served rural households in Monroe County, Michigan. With a 50% penetration rate, we expect the
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(734) 4783260
Project Title: "A Green Bridge to Everywhere" Hillsdale County, Michigan
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: IGBâ€™s â€œA Green Bridge to Everywhere â€“ Hillsdale County, Michiganâ€ project will
unserved rural households in Hillsdale County, Michigan. With a 50% penetration rate, we expect
the project to cost $493/home passed and a total project cost of $749,727 for the county. This
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Applicant: INSIDEMYCITY LLC
Contact: SCOTT DAVID ASCHENBRENNER
(810) 3091608
saschenbrenner@insidemycity.net
Project Title: insideMyCityGateway To Rural America 2010
Description: insideMyCity, a proposed Rural CLEC, offering regulated and unregulated services to markets that
have less than 1,500 homes and currently have one provider of service such as the local phone
company. The funds from this Grant will be used to enhance residential and business
communications as well as provide vital connectivity to remote fire, police, ambulance and public
sector organizations.
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Applicant: KEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Contact: KEVIN CLARK SCHOEN
(517) 9993250
schoen.kevin@acd.net
Project Title: BerrienCass Rural Broadband
Description: Design and construct a lastmile terrestrial broadband network infrastructure connecting to but not
including construction of middle and first mile fiber optic cable. It will consist of building FiberTo
TheHome (and businesses), plus fixed wireless equipment and towers, to provide highspeed
broadband to 26,153 unserved houses, and a total of 6,104 unserved businesses, Public Safety
Entities and Critical Community Facilities in the rural areas of Berrien and Cass Counties.
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Applicant: LIGHTHOUSE VIRTUAL CONNECTIONS, INC.
Contact: DONALD KORFF
(269) 8168601
DK_Light@ymail.com
Project Title: Marcellus Connectivity Initiative
Description: Lighthouse Virtual Connections, Inc. seeks to extend the broadband network within the state of
Michigan to the rural communities surrounding the village of Marcellus. Offering Internet access at
highspeeds, Lighthouse wishes to provide a fiberoptic network, terminating in a dependable
wireless system in order to better serve the 3,109 households, 242 businesses, and various
anchor institutions included in the targeted service area.
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Applicant: MASON, COUNTY TREASURER
Contact: JOHN GERTS
(231) 8435850
jkgerts@westshore.edu
Project Title: Mason County Municipal Fiber to the Premises Project Michigan
Description: Michigan has the nation's highest unemployment percentage. The Lake Michigan shoreline is truly
an enviable place to live and work. In Mason County there is a digital divide between those with
access to broadband and the underserved or unserved. This project will recitfy this inequality;
allowing stay at home moms, work at home entrepreneurs and businesses to prosper in the global
market.
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Applicant: METRAMAX GR, LLC
Contact: TYLER VAN HOUWELINGEN
(616) 6389057
tyler@azulstar.com
Project Title: Comprehensive Community Application for Southern Michigan WiMAX
Proposed Project Area: Indiana, Michigan
Loan Request: $20,000,000.51
Description: AzulStar, together with Clearwire, private investors and local community and public institutions are
proposing the creation of a 4G wireless broadband network encompassing the rural and
underserved areas within 17 counties in Southern Michigan. The network will utilize mobile
WiMAX at 2.5GHz, which is a nonproprietary, 4G wireless broadband technology that outpaces
all other broadband technologies in terms of both price and performance. The innovative network
will use some 60MHz of licensed spectrum at 2.5GHz to deliver fixed and mobile connections of
10Mbps and beyond. The highly advanced system will have a lasting impact on the target areas
by creating a platform for innovation and sustainable economic growth. Given the highly rural and
sparse nature of the area being targeted, federal financial assistance is essential in order to make
this vision a reality.
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Applicant: MIDWEST ENERGY COOPERATIVE
Contact: DAVID ALLEN
(269) 4451081
midwest@pulsebroadband.net
Project Title: Midwest Energy Cooperative FibertotheHome Project
Description: Midwest Energy Cooperative is a 501 (c) 12 organization. Midwest Energy proposes to build and
operate a fibertothe home (FTTH) broadband communications network to bring broadband and
provide value to its cooperative members. Midwest Energy has designed the network to ensure
that community anchor institutions have access to very highbandwidth broadband to provide
essential services to the community as described herein.
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Applicant: PASTY NET INC
Contact: CHARLES R HOPPER
(906) 3375979
both@pasty.com
Project Title: Fiber for the Keweenaw
Description: Locally established wireless and dialup Internet provider Pasty.net, Inc. proposes to purchase
equipment and construct 297 miles of fiber optic network to serve the historic Keweenaw
Peninsula. 2,617 unserved and underserved households, businesses and anchor institutions will
receive 100 Mbit service. This includes voice, IPTV, future smartgrid transport, and Internet
access consistent with the FCC's National Broadband Plan.
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Applicant: SPEEDNET LLC
Contact: JOHN OGREN
(248) 5210612
john.ogren@me.com
Project Title: SpeedNet Rural Intiative
Proposed Project Area: Illinois, Iowa
Description: SpeedNet LLC, a leading provider of wireless broadband services in Michigan, is proposing to
utilize licensed 2.5 GHz band spectrum and standardsbased WiMAX 802.16e technology to bring
highspeed broadband service to 18 rural counties in Iowa and Illinois where the majority of
premises currently lack High Speed Access. The proposed system initially will consist of 144 base
stations and ancillary facilities, and will be capable of reaching 32,651 households and 17,891
businesses in the proposed funded service area.
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Applicant: WEST MICHIGAN BROADBAND, LLC
Contact: DON NOORDYK
(231) 4142887
donnoordyk@yahoo.com
Project Title: West Michigan Broadband
Description: West Michigan Broadband seeks to expand its coverage area through the use of USDA funding to
provide high speed Internet services to underserved rural areas of West Michigan.
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Minnesota
Applicant: ARROWHEAD ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Contact: TERESA HANNAY
(616) 2935880
arrowhead@pulsebroadband.net
Project Title: Arrowhead Electric Cooperative FibertotheHome Project
Description: Arrowhead Electric Cooperative proposes to build and operate a fiber optic network to the
residential and commercial members of the cooperative as well to underserved safety and anchor
agencies in our service area. This project is designed as an open network allowing multiple
qualified vendors to offer services on the system.
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Applicant: FARMERS MUTUAL TELEPHONE COMPANY
Contact: JOHN SCHULTZ
(651) 9677196
jschultz@urekabroadband.com
Project Title: Farmers TelephoneLac qui Parle County FTTP Project
Description: Farmers Mutual Telephone Company in partnership with Lac qui Parle County will provide Fiber to
the Premise technology to the remaining 1561 households and 165 businesses and 12 Critical
Community Facilities within the county. This network will provide highspeed data, voice and
television services to areas of the County with limited access to technology choices. The entire
budget for the project will be $9.686 million ($9.653 million in BIP) dollars. This deployment will
make Lac qui Parle one of the leading technology counties in the state. Lac qui Parle County
Economic Development Authority (EDA) will lead economic development efforts within the County
in coordination with this network build to best leverage the network for education, health care,
public safety and economic development.
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Applicant: FEDERATED TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE
Contact: KEVIN BEYER
(320) 3247111
kbeyer@fedtel.net
Project Title: Rural Morris, MN
Description: This project consist of building a FTTP system to deploy voice, video, and data services to the
Rural Morris, MN exchange. The PFSA is primarily located in Stevens County, with a small portion
in Grant County. The PFSA includes 408 residential, 20 Business and 2 anchor institutions.
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Applicant: FEDERATED TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE
Contact: KEVIN BEYER
(320) 3247111
kbeyer@fedtel.net
Project Title: Rural Appleton, MN
Description: This project consists of building a FTTP system to deploy voice, video, and data services to the
Rural Appleton, MN exchange. The PFSA is primarily located in Swift County, with small portions
in Big Stone and Chippewa Counties. The PFSA includes 152 residential, 7 Business and 1
anchor institution.
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Applicant: FOND DU LAC RESERVATION
Contact: JASON ROMAN HOLLINDAY
(218) 8782625
jasonhollinday@fdlrez.com
Project Title: Fond du Lac Broadband Project
Description: The Fond du Lac Wireless Broadband Project would create a wireless broadband/high speed
Internet system on the Fond du Lac Reservation. The system would provide internet access to
over 300 homes, and several community facilities. The procurement of high speed internet on the
Reservation will be used as an economic tool and assist people to educate themselves, open a
new marketplace for goods and services, create a more marketable workforce and open new job
opportunities. The project will require the construction and installation of six towers and base
station. Cost estimated for the towers and the base station is $1,416,792.00. A more detailed
scope of work is located in the attachments with the "FDL Wireless Study."
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Applicant: JAGUAR COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Contact: DONNY TJELEMAN SMITH
(507) 2141001
dsmith@jagcom.net
Project Title: Southeastern Minnesota Open Fiber Initiative (SMOFI)
Loan Request: $15,275,173.00
Description: The Southeastern Minnesota Open Fiber Initiative (SMOFI) is an â€œOpen Accessâ€ Fiberto
thePremise (FTTP) project, which will connect virtually every home, business, community anchor
institution and critical facility in the Southern Minnesota counties of Steele and Dodge, and parts of
Rice, which are predominantly unserved or underserved. The project will deliver broadband
speeds of up to 1Gbps to every premise served and sets aside 25% of earned revenues for future
expansion to rural and remote areas. The project will pass 16,414 households, 1,580 businesses
and 515 Community Anchor Institutions and Critical Facilities. The project will be a critical part of
the Mayo Clinicâ€™s â€œBEACONâ€ rural telehealth initiative. SMOFI will implement specific
and substantive programs to deliver service to, and support community anchor institutions abilities
to deliver services to the public.
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Applicant: KASSON \& MANTORVILLE TELEPHONE COMPANY
Contact: MARY EHMKE
(507) 6342511
mehmke@kmtel.com
Project Title: Kasson & Mantorville Telephone Company: FibertotheHome Broadband Deployment Project
Description: The Kasson & Mantorville Telephone Company FibertotheHome Broadband Deployment
Project is a build out of existing infrastructure into underserved rural areas throughout the current
serving company footprint. The project proposes to build fiber routes and improve network
infrastructure to enable more robust high speed broadband connections to homes and businesses.
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Applicant: LAKE, COUNTY OF
Contact: GARY FIELDS
(651) 3433128
gfields@nationalpublicbroadband.org
Project Title: Lake County Fiber Network
Loan Request: $56,413,705.00
Description: The Lake County Fiber Network will provide fibertothepremise connectivity to all homes and
businesses in Lake County and eastern Saint Louis County, MN. The network will deliver state of
the art voice, video and data services at affordable prices.
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Applicant: NEXTERA COMMUNICATIONS LLC
Contact: GREG ARVIG
(218) 8186410
garvig@nextera.net
Project Title: Fort Ripley Broadband Project
Description: Nextera Communications currently serves Brainerd, Baxter and Little Falls with voice and data
services. Based on the proposed application Nextera will construct 7 tower sites with 4G wireless
technology to serve the unserved areas surrounding Brainerd, Baxter and Little Falls. The 4G
wireless system will be capable of delivering up to 5M in bandwidth to end users. Towers will be
connected via a 200M backbone microwave radio system and the proposed MSED fiber system if
the companion MSED grant is awarded. The proposed system will leverage existing infrastructure
to create a cost effective broadband solution to unserved markets.
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Applicant: NORTHEAST SERVICE COOPERATIVE
Contact: LYLE KEVIN MACVEY
(218) 7487623
lmacvey@nesc.k12.mn.us
Project Title: ArrowheadConnect Cook County
Description: Fiber to the Home project leveraging the NESC Northeast Middle Mile Project funded in Round 1.
This project will provide fiber based broadband to 6,235 households in one of the sparsest and
northern most counties in MN. The project employs a new public sector management model that
will engage and have strong local incumbent and cable carrier support. The model is unique in
that nothing like it has been proposed before and stands to be the future model for deploying
networks in sparsely populated, large rural areas. The model provides for both a "unbundled fiber
to the home" carrier service and a bundled "lit" service to support low income and those that
cannot afford along with connecting critical services to the regional network. It also has strong
participation with the funded NESC Middle Mile Fiber Project and other ARRA funded projects in
the region.
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Applicant: PAUL BUNYAN RURAL TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE
Contact: GARY JOHNSON
(218) 4441234
gjohnson@paulbunyan.net
Project Title: Northern Minnesota Broadband Extension Initiative
Description: The rapid growth and ensuing spread of communities in the rural landscape poses a challenge for
Internet services providers. Paul Bunyan Telephone's Northern Minnesota Broadband Extension
Initiative proposes to fill this need by extending broadband services to areas lacking in those
services.
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Applicant: SJOBERG\'S INC
Contact: RICHARD J SJOBERG
(218) 6813044
rsjoberg@mncable.net
Project Title: Northwest Minnesota Fiber Project
Description: Sjoberg's inc proposes to build state of the art, fiber to the premises (RF over Glass) extensions to
4 unserved/ underserved areas near Thief River Falls and Roseau, MN. Sjoberg's will provide
these areas with 40 Mb/s Broadband service, cable TV and telephone service. This will provide
new jobs and simulate economic activity in the local business and farm community.It will also be
used in conjunction with Emergency Services and Healthcare.
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Applicant: UPSALA COOPERATIVE TELEPHONE ASSOCIATION
Contact: TONY GEBHARD
(320) 5732122
tony@sytekcom.com
Project Title: MN TriCounty Wireless Broadband Initiative
Description: Sytek Communication has a long history of being a successful and progressive
telecommunications company for over 100 years. Careful analysis of the potential current
unserved market shows an opportunity to fill the void of Broadband services which is either not
available or substandard. The Company will be able to leverage their affiliation from their
extensive industry contacts, which they have gained through industry affiliations, and other third
party contacts which will all help support the rural communities. The Minnesota TriCounty
Broadband Project would be an extension to the current Broadband project on which we are
working. Sytek Communications would manage a wireless broadband system that would serve
more than 1,600 square miles of 4G (WiMax) coverage for the counties of Todd, Morrison & Mille
Lacs in central Minnesota.
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Applicant: WIKSTROM TELEPHONE COMPANY, INCORPORATED
Contact: ALAN LUNDEEN
(218) 4365214
alundeen@wiktel.com
Project Title: Wikstrom NW MN Broadband
Description: Wikstrom Telephone's Project will deploy 414 miles of new cables and electronics for GPON fiber
to the home in 6 communities of Kittson, Marshall and Roseau County for Broadband Services
over 100 megabits. Electronic enhancements will be made to existing DSL customers to increase
Broadband speeds up to 48mbs, along with 74 miles of additional fiber to the node, and a 150mb
microwave upgrade for service to the NW Angle. The project facilities will pass 5115 households,
1499 businesses, and 83 critical community facilities.
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Applicant: WOODSTOCK TELEPHONE CO INC
Contact: KEN KNUTH
(507) 7772201
k.knuth@fecinc.com
Project Title: WTC 2010 Broadband Initiative
Description: Woodstock Telephone Company will expand its fiber network into neighboring rural communities
by providing FTTP for over 3600 premises in 15 communities located within 3 counties in
Southwest Minnesota. This expanded fiber network will provide bandwidth of over 20Mbps for
advanced voice and data services. The company will utilize experienced management
professionals to lead the deployment, operation, and maintenance of this new infrastructure,
contributing to project success, efficient timeframes, and reducing the overall costs of deployment
and maintenance.
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Mississippi
Applicant: CYTEC SOFTWARE SYSTEMS INC
Contact: OSCAR DELEON
(601) 3621612
oscar@cytecsys.com
Project Title: Wireless Broadband Network for the Rural Mississippi Delta and East Central Regions
Description: CYTEC will build out and provide wireless broadband services to the Mississippi delta region
one of the the poorest and economically depressed areas of the country and select communities
in north central Mississippi. The CYTEC wireless network, is a quickly deployable, lowcost,
scalable system that was specifically designed to service small, rural communities. The CYTEC
wireless network offers separate channel access for consumer/subscribers and a seperate, secure
network for local government and first responders.
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Applicant: DIXIENET FIBER, INC.
Contact: CHRIS MARSALIS
(662) 9932000
marsalis@dixienet.com
Project Title: DNF BIP
Proposed Project Area: Mississippi, Tennessee
Loan Request: $10,356,209.00
Description: DixieNet Fiber seeks to expand its last mile broadband offerings in north Mississippi by
constructing a 144 count fiber network that will connect it's existing broadband facilities in Tippah,
Benton, Marshall and Lafayette counties in Mississippi. In addition the project will encompass
offering Fiber to the Premise (FTTP) installations as well as utilizing xDSL and wireless
technologies to provide broadband to subscribers in underserved and unserved areas in north
Mississippi.
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Applicant: FULTON TELEPHONE COMPANY, INC.
Contact: RICK BENNETT
(601) 7643463 x3040
rbennett@nexband.com
Project Title: Fulton Telephone Company, Inc.
Description: Fiber to the premise for the Town of Fulton, plus significantly increased broadband speeds to the
entire service area.
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Applicant: MISSISSIPPI ECONOMIC GROWTH ALLIANCE \& POINT OF PRESENCE, INC.
Contact: MORGAN BALDWIN
(662) 8714647
morgan@morganbaldwin.com
Project Title: MEGAPOP FTTH/FTTP LastMile Network
Description: MEGAPOP will deploy an "open access" FTTH/FTTP lastmile network in Holly Springs, MS, that
will offer direct fiber optic connections to 2488 homes and 247 businesses, while serving 22
community anchor institutions, in partnership with local service providers. This new lastmile
network will leverage MEGAPOPâ€™s existing middlemile infrastructure, to further extend
telemedicine and distance learning applications to households and small businesses, while
working with the local government on improving public safety and economic development
conditions.
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Applicant: NATIONAL TELEPHONE OF ALABAMA INC
Contact: LISA WIGINGTON
(601) 3549070
LisaW@TEC.com
Project Title: Cherokee Broadband Initiatives Project
Description: The Cherokee Broadband Initiatives Project will provide the infrastructure necessary for rural
subscribers in the Colbert county communities of Margerum, Barton and Cherokee, Alabama to
access advanced high speed broadband services. This area represents an estimated 1,200
households and 230 businesses. This broadband access will offer customers more opportunity to
improve lifestyles through online educational classes, increased knowledge of world events, and
entertainment options with ADSL2+ technology.
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Applicant: SMITHVILLE TELEPHONE COMPANY INC
Contact: TERRY N. COLLUMS
(662) 6514131
tncstc@traceroad.net
Project Title: Smithville Telephone Broadband Program
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The Smithville Telephone Company, Incorporated, a current provider of voice and broadband
services in rural northeastern Mississippi, proposes to implement a fiber to the premises network
overbuild to extend modern broadband services to 298 currently unserved households. Existing
broadband service will also be improved so that a minimum of 20 Mbps service will be available to
all of the companyâ€™s broadband subscribers, with a technical capability for those in the
proposed funded service area to access 100 Mbps service in the future. The overall project will
pass 1083 households and 47 businesses.
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Applicant: TALLAHATCHIE, COUNTY OF CHANCERY CLERK OFFICE
Contact: JAY CAMERON LLOYD
(662) 5614100
jlloyd@ndpdd.com
Project Title: Tllahatchie County Broadband BIP
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The project seeks to provide Tallahatchie County with widespread wireless broadband internet
access.
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Missouri
Applicant: BIG RIVER BROADBAND, LLC
Contact: JOHN FRANK JENNINGS
(314) 2252202
jjennings@bigrivertelephone.com
Project Title: Big River Broadband Project
Loan Request: $12,191,271.00
Description: Big River Broadband Project will bring High Speed Internet Access to a seven county area in
southeast Missouri, providing access to 44,967 households and 7,511 businesses. Big River has
worked extensively with community leaders throughout the Proposed Funded Service Area
(PFSA). There are 39 census defined communities within the PFSA and 311 anchor institutions.
Big River will be providing high speed Internet access (both fixed and mobile) at download speeds
up to 14.4 Mbps and upload speeds of 5.8 Mbps. Big River will be deploying a wireless broadband
network using its existing AWS licensed spectrum along with High Speed Packet Access (HSPA)
technology over these licensed frequencies. This technology supports high speed connectivity to
the Internet for data, voice and video applications, for both mobile and fixed locations.
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Applicant: CASS, COUNTY OF
(616) 2935880
casscounty@pulsebroadband.net
Project Title: Cass County, MO Broadband Initiatives Fibertothehome Project
Description: Cass County intends to construct a Last Mile, FiberToTheHome (FTTH) 1,286 mile network to
enable 100 Mbps broadband service to 11,600 residents, businesses, and critical community
anchor institutions in â€œunservedâ€ and â€œunderservedâ€ areas of rural Cass County.
The estimated project cost is $26.4 MM and requests a 50% grant/50% loan from RUSâ€™
Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP). Sponsored by Cass County Commissioners, Gary Mallory,
Bill Cook, Brian Baker and overseen by Universal Asset Management of Harrisonville, our design
partner is Pulse Broadband. Our construction partner is Atlantic Engineering Group. This is the
same fiber architecture team that successfully secured Ralls County Electric Cooperativeâ€™s
round one BIP award. The development of communications infrastructure in Cass Countyâ€™s
rural areas has not kept pace with the swift advancement of technology and the public need.
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Applicant: CHARITON VALLEY TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Contact: RON STONE
(660) 3959661
rstone@charitonvalley.com
Project Title: Chariton Valley Telephone FiberToTheHome
Loan Request: $31,601,181.00
Description: Chariton Valley Telephone Corporation is a cooperative established in 1952 serving 19 telephone
exchanges in north central Missouri. Chariton Valleyâ€™s proposed project provides Fibertothe
Home for all area households, businesses and key community organizations that are currently
underserved. Included in the project is 3G UMTS mobile and fixed wireless broadband service to
unserved premises in the licensed market area. Overall 17,291 premises are included. This
project will provide needed broadband services providing economic development through
increased business growth, public safety services and quality of life for residents in nine counties.
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Applicant: CITY OF GRANT CITY
Contact: AYVONNE MORIN
(660) 5643369
cityg23@hotmail.com
Project Title: Grant City Broadband Upgrade
Proposed Project Area: Iowa, Missouri
Description: Grant City, MO, proposes a project that will offer uptodate broadband access to residents of the
City and to all citizens within a 10mile radius around the cityâ€™s center, including 1032
households and 233 businesses. The proposed project will provide high speed internet access
with speeds up to 10MG including traditional ISP services and capabilities of voice and video,
utilizing Alvarion Breezeaccess 3650 fixed point wireless technology and sectorized RF
deployment.
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Applicant: COMO ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC.
Contact: RANDY KLINDT
(616) 2935880
como@pulsebroadband.net
Project Title: CoMo Electric Cooperative FibertotheHome Project
Loan Request: $32,962,260.00
Description: The broadband solution proposed will be a fibertothehome network engineered to deliver 100
mbps to every home and business in the cooperative service territory, enable smart grid
technologies, deliver high definition television, VoIP telephony, distance learning, telemedicine,
and other advanced broadband applications to all or part of nine counties in Missouri. In addition
to cooperative members, CoMo will extend the fiber network to 14 additional schools outside of
CoMoâ€™s traditional service territory. The proposed service area includes more than 26,000
households, 500 businesses, and 325 critical community facilities. This 4,000 mile fiber network
will pass 56 public safety facilities, 164 government facilities, 43 schools, 16 health facilities, and
four libraries. This area encompasses more than 2,300 underserved square miles in rural Central
Missouri.
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Applicant: FINALLY BROADBAND, LLC
Contact: JOHN K. MILLER
(417) 8605669
partners@finallybroadband.com
Project Title: Southwest Missouri Rural Broadband Initiative
Description: The SWMRBI project is dedicated to the wireless delivery of high quality value priced broadband
Internet services to rural families and businesses and high quality discounted broadband Internet
services to Community Anchor Points. This will be accomplished with terrestrial fixed wireless
technology utilizing the Motorola Canopy platform operating in the Part 15 license exempt
frequency bands. The SWMRBI Phase IIII service area is 100% rural and will cover four counties
of which two are persistent poverty counties. In addition, it includes portions of eleven other
counties of which two more are persistent poverty counties. Our broadband services will pass
45,782 households, 7,484 businesses and 404 Community Anchor Points in 4,563 square miles of
area that serves 37 Census Designated Places and a population of 118,569.
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Applicant: GRAND RIVER MUTUAL TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Contact: WENDEL MYERS
(660) 7483231
grmwmm@grm.net
Project Title: Grand River Mutual FibertotheHome Broadband Deployment Project Service Area 2
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The Grand River Mutual FibertotheHome Broadband Deployment Project â€“ Service Area 2 will
provide broadband service to the towns of Browning, Purdin, Linneus, and Meadville, Missouri,
and their surrounding rural areas via a fibertothehome network. The network will provide service
to 1,185 homes and 773 businesses in Sullivan and Linn Counties.
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(660) 7483231
grmwmm@grm.net
Proposed Project Area: Iowa, Missouri
provide broadband service to the towns of Corydon, Millerton, Allerton, and Lineville, IA, and
Powersville, MO, and their surrounding rural areas. The network will provide service to 1,997
homes and 339 businesses along the IowaMissouri border.
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(660) 7483231
grmwmm@grm.net
provide broadband service to the town of Lathrop, Missouri and its surrounding rural areas via a
fibertothehome network. The network will provide service to 1,221 homes and 47 businesses in
the Lathrop area.
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(660) 7483231
grmwmm@grm.net
Loan Request: $0.00
provide broadband service to the towns of Denver, Gentry, and New Hampton, Missouri, and their
surrounding rural areas via a fibertothehome network. The network will provide service to 641
homes and 371 businesses in Worth, Gentry, and Harrison Counties.
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(660) 7483231
grmwmm@grm.net
provide broadband service to the towns of Lorimor, Murray, and Thayer, Iowa, and their
surrounding rural areas via a fibertothehome network. The network will provide service to 1,074
homes and 498 businesses in Clarke and Union Counties.
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Applicant: N1 COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
Contact: CHIP GASKINS
(202) 2941986
cgaskins@myhibeam.com
Project Title: Texarkana Area Rural Broadband Network BIP Round 2
Proposed Project Area: Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas
Description: HiBeam is a three year old telecommunications company based in St. Louis. The company's
operations have always focused on underserved rural markets and the smaller rural communities
around Texarkana represent exactly the type of markets HiBeam excels at serving. HiBeam plans
to build a Wireless Broadband network using WiMAX technology to the largely underserved areas
in east Texas and western Arkansas. HiBeam leases licensed 2.5 GHz spectrum in this area
which provides the opportunity to offer quality of service (QoS) to thousands of underserved
residents, business, and critical community facilities throughout this rural area around Texarkana.
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(202) 2941986
Project Title: Joplin, MO Rural Broadband Network BIP Round 2
Proposed Project Area: Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma
around Joplin represent exactly the type of markets HiBeam excels at serving. HiBeam plans to
build a Wireless Broadband network using WiMAX technology to the largely underserved areas in
southwestern Missouri. HiBeam leases licensed 2.5 GHz spectrum in this area which provides the
opportunity to offer quality of service (QoS) to thousands of underserved residents, business, and
critical community facilities throughout this rural area around Joplin.
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(202) 2941986
Project Title: Topeka, KS Rural Broadband Network BIP Round 2
around Topeka represent exactly the type of markets HiBeam excels at serving. HiBeam plans to
eastern Kansas. HiBeam leases licensed 2.5 GHz spectrum in this area which provides the
critical community facilities throughout this rural area around Topeka.
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(202) 2941986
Project Title: Peoria, IL Rural Broadband Network BIP Round 2
around Peoria represent exactly the type of markets HiBeam excels at serving. HiBeam plans to
central Illinois. HiBeam leases licensed 2.5 GHz spectrum in this area which provides the
critical community facilities throughout this rural area around Peoria.
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Applicant: NORTHEAST MISSOURI RURAL TELEPHONE COMPANY
Contact: GARY GODFREY
(660) 8744111
ggodfrey@nemr.net
Project Title: Green City MO FibertothePremises
Description: Northeast Missouri Rural Telephone Company (NEMR) proposes to construct a fibertothe
premises (FTTP) network. This FTTP overbuild will allow NEMR to provide greater than 20 Mbps
broadband access to the residences, businesses and community organizations in the Green City,
Missouri telephone exchange. This will create the potential for increased business growth, public
service, public safety and quality of life for the residents of Green City.
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Applicant: RURAL MISSOURI BROADBAND, INC.
Contact: FRED BECKER
(573) 4844000
fred@yhti.net
Project Title: Rural Missouri Broadband FiberToTheHome Project
Loan Request: $73,500,000.00
Description: Rural Missouri Broadband will bring last mile fibertothehome (FTTH) broadband service to
unserved and underserved Missouri residents in ten counties separated into 24 publicly funded
service areas (PFSAâ€™s). RMB plans to serve the communities of Birch Tree, Brumley, Cabool,
Camdenton, Climax Springs, Crocker, Dixon, Eminence, Iberia, Linn Creek, Macks Creek,
Montier, Mountain Grove, Mountain View, Richland, Roach, Stoutland, Summersville, Teresita,
Van Buren, Warsaw, West Plains, Willow Springs, Winona and the southern half of Lake of the
Ozarks. RMBâ€™s proposed service area is 100% rural and 90% is without high speed access.
RMB proposes to serve 22,599 households, 6,517 businesses, 228 public safety entities, and 241
critical community facilities within the PFSAâ€™s in central and southern Missouri.
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Applicant: SOCKET TELECOM, LLC
Contact: CARSON COFFMAN
(573) 8170000 x103
carsonc@socket.net
Project Title: Rural Mid Missouri Fiber to the Premise Project
Description: Socket's fibertothe premise (FTTP) project will provide broadband services to households,
businesses, and critical community organizations who are currently underserved in midMissouri.
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Applicant: ST LOUIS BROADBAND LLC
Contact: VICTORIA PROFFER
(314) 9745600
victoria@stlbroadband.com
Project Title: ShowMe Broadband
Proposed Project Area: Illinois, Missouri
Loan Request: $32,249,453.00
Description: The ShowMe Broadband is a project of St. Louis Broadband, LLC. We propose to serve 10
counties, including 3 persistent poverty counties, within Southeast Missouri with 116 Microwave
towers in an area where so few exist. Our network of 116 towers and a new Network Operations
Center (NOC). Our NOC will be built with redundant fiber connections the St. Louis NAP located at
900 Walnut St., St. Louis, Missouri. As well as one High Speed Microwave link to a third fiber
provider with a direct fiber path to Kansas City. This path will be primarily dedicated to our Public
Safety network. This allows us an opportunity to PROACTIVELY react to a catastrophic event for
this area. Our PROACTIVE communications network will backup our local area, and the City of St.
Louis in helping restore communications and data networks in the event of a disaster.
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Applicant: TEXAS COUNTY RURAL AREA INFORMATION NETWORK
Contact: FARRELL CHRISTESON
(417) 9672900
train@gotrain.org
Project Title: Long reach wireless broadband project
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The goal of this project is reach 1000+ homes beyond the edges of current broadband services in
central Texas County Missouri. It will also create the basic building blocks needed to move
forward and ensure that all residents and businesses in Texas County Missouri have access to
broadband Internet in the future.
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Applicant: UNITED ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC
(616) 2935880
united@pulsebroadband.net
Project Title: United Electric Fiber Initiative
Description: United Electric Cooperative is a 501 (c) 12 organization. United proposes to build and operate a
fibertothe home (FTTH) broadband communications network to bring broadband and provide
value to its cooperative members. United's network has been designed to ensure that community
anchor institutions have access to very highbandwidth broadband to provide essential services to
the community as described herein.
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Applicant: WORLDWIDE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Contact: MARK E. WEBB
(660) 2212892
mewebb@myturbonet.com
Project Title: TurboNet HighSpeed Broadband Internet Access in Rural Missouri
Description: TurboNet will bring highspeed wireless broadband access to rural area customers who cannot get
DSL or cable in rural, West Central Missouri. In Year 1, we will retrofit our existing 12 towers to
add 2.4, 3.65 & 5.8 MHz equipment to ensure 5 Mbps service to customers, and add equipment to
5 more towers to increase our service area. In Year 2, we will add equipment to 15 more towers to
complete our service area.
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Montana
Applicant: 3 RIVERS TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE, INC.
Contact: BRADLEY CLAY VEIS
(800) 7964567
brad.veis@3rivers.coop
Project Title: FACTORS (Fiber Access Connectivity To Outlying Rocky Mountain Service areas)
Loan Request: $11,919,765.00
Description: 3 Rivers Telephone Cooperative Inc.â€™s proposed Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) project will
provide broadband services to households, businesses, and key community organizations that are
currently underserved. The project will serve residents in six communities in north central & north
western Montana, including portions of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.
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Applicant: CABLE \& COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION
Contact: ERIN MAREE LUTTS
(406) 3777438
elutts@midrivers.com
Project Title: Wireless Broadband for Rural Montana
Description: This project will provide wireless broadband services to areas of Eastern Montana where NO
broadband wireline or wireless is currently available. This is an extremely rural and remote area
covering over 8,800 SQUARE MILES with a density of less than 0.07 households per square mile.
In an effort to propose a costeffective terrestrial broadband solution to serve this area, we plan to
equip existing digital cellular sites with 3G broadband services (capable of future upgrade to 4G)
to offer both mobile and fixed wireless broadband services. The mobility of the service will provide
additional benefits to vast numbers of consumers and businesses traveling through the area, as
well as to emergency service providers. The project will also offer infrastructure and services to
Interoperability Montana, the Stateâ€™s public safety radio interoperability consortium.
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Applicant: GREENFLY NETWORKS, INC.
Contact: MAURO CALVI
(406) 7940221
mauro.calvi@clearfly.net
Project Title: Ethernet First Mile Broadband in 11 Montana Rural Communities
Description: Clearfly intends to utilize stimulus funding to deploy 2045 Mbits/sec EFM and advanced DSL
capabilities to 11 markets in Montana. One of its customers, Billings Clinic, a major healthcare
provider in the State, will be the primary Community Anchor Tenant and will utilize the significant
bandwidth upgrade to provide advanced medical services to 20 partners in 11 rural communities
of Montana.
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Applicant: LITTLE APPLE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
Contact: CLARK V JOHNSON
(406) 2843174
clark@littleappletech.com
Project Title: Broadband Infrastructure Last Mile Rural Montana
Description: Provide broadband service to last mile users in rural locations outside of established wired areas
by adding wireless access points to an established successfully operating wireless network.
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Applicant: MONTANA OPTICOM, LLC
Contact: JIM DOLAN
(406) 9935523
jrdolan@mtopticom.com
Project Title: Gallatin Gateway Broadband Project
Loan Request: $32,127,322.00
Description: Montana Opticom, LLC will utilize Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) to expand highspeed broadband
to rural communities and rural areas within Gallatin County, Montana. Affordable and reliable
broadband will be extended to 7,746 households 4,118 businesses, and 58 critical community
facilities for a total of 11,922 premises passed within the proposed service area. Access to high
speed broadband will escalate economic development in rural Montana, enhance quality of life to
Montana Opticom subscribers, as well as provide connectivity to life saving communications and
technologies utilized throughout southwest Montana. Additionally, improving educational, critical
community and public safety service offerings will positively impact residents and visitors.
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Applicant: NEMONT TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE, INC.
Contact: RICHARD HOOD
(406) 7832370
richard.hood@nemont.coop
Project Title: Ft. Peck Reservation FTTP
Description: This project will provide Fiber to the Premise (Home) to all locations within the Fort Peck Indian
Reservation exchanges of Brockton, Froid Rural, North Poplar, North Wolf Point, and Frazer that
do not currently have access to 5Mbs (up and down combined). This project will also bring Fiber to
the Premise to the exchange of Poplar which is the headquarters of the Fort Peck Assiniboine
Sioux Tribes. The service will be accessible by each location and delivered by GPON and/or
active ethernet topologies. This project will serve approximately 3,279 lcoations, roughly 10%
being businesses.
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Applicant: NORTHERN CHEYENNE TRIBE
Contact: BENJAMIN BAHR
(406) 4776284
bngbar@yahoo.com
Project Title: NCT Fixed and Mobile Broadband Wireless System
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Northern Cheyenne Telecommunications (NCT), a 100% tribally owned Telecommunication
Company is seeking grant funding from the Broadband Infrastructure Program. NCT proposes to
deploy a broadband wireless system to provide Broadband Fixed and Mobile wireless services to
the rural communities and scattered homes, farms and ranches within the exterior boundaries of
the Northern Cheyenne Tribe Reservation.
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Applicant: NORTHERN CYBER CONNECTION NETWORK, LLC
Contact: CY JAMISON
(202) 2629100
cyjamison@aol.com
Project Title: Northern Cyber Connection Network
Proposed Project Area: Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: NCCN is seeking BIP funding to integrate the service capacity and rural relationships of two
institutions of higher education with partners from private industry that know how to develop,
construct, maintain and operate a broadband network. This project spans over 107,000 rural
square miles, including six Indian reservations. This twotiered project will target community
support, distance education and telemedicine issues in over 100 larger rural communities, with
plans to eventually provide highspeed broadband access to up to 840 communities regionwide.
Based upon this larger vision, the Broadband Mapping Tool has passed 156,157 businesses and
households in the region, and we have estimated a total of 1110 critical community facilities and
public safety entities in Eastern Montana. The stretch goal of this network is to reach at least 50%
of potential subscribers.
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Applicant: PROJECT TELEPHONE COMPANY
(406) 7832370
Project Title: Crow Agency/Lodgegrass FTTP
Description: This project will provide Fiber to the Premise (Home) to all locations within the Crow Reservation
exchanges of Crow Agency and Lodge Grass where more than 50% of the locations do not
currently have access to 5Mbs (up and down combined). This project will also bring Fiber to the
Premise to all anchor institutions including the headquarters of the Crow Tribe in Crow Agency.
The service will be accessible by each location and delivered by GPON and/or active ethernet
topologies. This project will serve approximately 1712 locations, roughly 10% being businesses.
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Applicant: PROJECT TELEPHONE COMPANY
(406) 7832370
Project Title: Scott St. Pryor Middle Mile
Description: The Scott St/Pryor Middle Mile Broadband Connectivity Project will create a fiber optic transport
network that connects the Crow Indian Reservation communities of Pryor, Saint Xavier and Fort
Smith to existing fiber transport networks in Lockwood, MT near Billings, MT. This project will also
bring FTTP type services to 26 anchor institutions including tribal, state and federal entities. The
infrastructure will allow Project Telephone to link to other backbone providers. This project will
promote rural economic development and provide interconnection points to underserved areas. It
will also stimulate broadband growth by providing interoffice transport, backhaul, internet
connectivity and/or special access using fiber. This redundant network is vital in the event of a
network outage, such as a fiber cut, in order to keep critical services, like public safety, operational.
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Applicant: RANGE TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE, INC.
Contact: ROBIN STEPHENS
(406) 3472226
rob@rangetel.coop
Project Title: Range NE WY Project
Proposed Project Area: Wyoming
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The Project proposes to build fibertothehome to approximately 290 total addresses in rural
northeastern Wyoming that is currently unserved by any broadband provider. The Project will
provide broadband speeds of up to 100 Mbps to each premises. Based on the market survey data,
there is demand for both voice and high speed broadband services. Applicant will offer both.
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Nebraska
Applicant: SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Contact: ELIZABETH SICKEL
(402) 2454451
esickel@sentco.net
Project Title: Southeast Nebraska Communications Rural FTTH
Proposed Project Area: Kansas, Nebraska
Description: Southeast Nebraska Communications, Inc., headquartered in Falls City, Nebraska, proposes to
construct fibertothehome throughout the rural portion of its certificated service area excluding
the town of Falls City.
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Nevada
Applicant: ARIZONA NEVADA TOWER CORPORATION
Contact: KEVIN HAYES
(702) 4542682
kevin.hayes@antower.com
Project Title: Central Nevada Community Anchor Wireless Backhaul Solution
Proposed Project Area: California, Nevada
Description: Nevada is a uniquely rural state that includes some of the very last â€œfrontierâ€ communities
in the USA. Most of the population living outside of Washoe and Clark Counties have, to date,
been living without access to true broadband internet service. To resolve this iniquity, ANTC is
proposing a state of the art microwave radio backbone; a MiddleMile system to provide significant
bandwidth to WISPs, anchor institutions and enterprise users in 15 PFSAâ€™s where it does not
exist or is grossly cost prohibitive to access today. Utilizing cutting edge LTE/WiMax ready
technology, the system will provide highly reliable and scalable broadband transport to enhance
existing but limited fiberoptic cable or provide transport where fiberoptic cable is unavailable. 186
CCFâ€™s and PSFâ€™s along with more than 16,500 premises will have access to the system
via local ISPâ€™s using ANTCâ€™s proposed network.
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Applicant: KEYON COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Contact: JASON LAZAR
(310) 4036307
jason.lazar@keyon.com
Project Title: KeyOn WiMAX Alabama/Mississippi
Loan Request: $14,050,747.00
Description: KeyOn will deliver fourth generation (4G), lastmile wireless broadband and digital phone service
(VoIP) to over a million people in 320 of the most rural communities in Alabama and Mississippi.
Using KeyOnâ€™s nationwide 3.65GHz license and the standardsbased WiMAX protocol, our
network will offer Internet and digital phone service to 384,817 households and 36,596 businesses
passed at speeds of up to 8Mbps download/1.5Mbps upload at a cost far lower than competing
technologies. KeyOn's existing footprint covers customers in 11 states and over 50,000 square
miles. Our financial strength and management team experience will ensure that the communities
and their surrounding areas in the targeted PFSAs will be afforded nextgeneration broadband
access into the foreseeable future.
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(310) 4036307
Project Title: KeyOn WiMAX Wisconsin
(VoIP) to over 790,830 people in 288 of the most rural communities in Wisconsin. Using KeyOnâ
€™s nationwide 3.65GHz license and the standardsbased WiMAX protocol, our network will offer
Internet and digital phone service to 305,432 households and 38,302 businesses passed at
speeds of up to 8Mbps download/1.5Mbps upload at a cost far lower than competing technologies.
KeyOn's existing footprint covers customers in 11 states and over 50,000 square miles. Our
financial strength and management team experience will ensure that the communities and their
surrounding areas in the targeted PFSAs will be afforded nextgeneration broadband access into
the foreseeable future.
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(310) 4036307
Project Title: KeyOn WiMAX Oklahoma/Texas
Proposed Project Area: Oklahoma, Texas
(VoIP) to 453,284 people in 272 of the most rural communities in Oklahoma and Texas. Using
KeyOnâ€™s nationwide 3.65GHz license and the standardsbased WiMAX protocol, our network
will offer Internet and digital phone service to 168,861 households and 25,670 businesses passed
at speeds of up to 8Mbps download/1.5Mbps upload at a cost far lower than competing
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(310) 4036307
Project Title: KeyOn WiMAX North Dakota / South Dakota
Proposed Project Area: North Dakota, South Dakota
(VoIP) to 375,423 people in 330 of the most rural communities in North Dakota and South Dakota.
Using KeyOnâ€™s nationwide 3.65GHz license and the standardsbased WiMAX protocol, our
network will offer Internet and digital phone service to 146,426 households and 18,137 businesses
passed at speeds of up to 8Mbps download/1.5Mbps upload at a cost far lower than competing
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Broadband USA
(310) 4036307
Project Title: KeyOn WiMAX Nevada
Proposed Project Area: Nevada, Utah
(VoIP) to 106,165 people in 39 of the most rural communities in Nevada. Using KeyOnâ€™s
nationwide 3.65GHz license and the standardsbased WiMAX protocol, our network will offer
Internet and digital phone service to 37,609 households and 5,522 businesses passed at speeds
of up to 8Mbps download/1.5Mbps upload at a cost far lower than competing technologies.
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(310) 4036307
Project Title: KeyOn WiMAX Missouri
(VoIP) to 666,195 people in 361 of the most rural communities in Missouri. Using KeyOnâ€™s
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(310) 4036307
Project Title: KeyOn WiMAX Minnesota
(VoIP) to 716,575 people in 361 of the most rural communities in Minnesota. Using KeyOnâ€™s
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Broadband USA
(310) 4036307
Project Title: KeyOn WiMAX Michigan
(VoIP) to 486,277 people in 115 of the most rural communities in Michigan. Using KeyOnâ€™s
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Broadband USA
(310) 4036307
Project Title: KeyOn WiMAX Louisiana
(VoIP) to 656,588 people in 148 of the most rural communities in Louisiana. Using KeyOnâ€™s
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Broadband USA
(310) 4036307
Project Title: KeyOn WiMAX Kansas
(VoIP) to 390,878 people in 257 of the most rural communities in Kansas. Using KeyOnâ€™s
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Broadband USA
(310) 4036307
Project Title: KeyOn WiMAX Iowa
(VoIP) to 583,338 people in 420 of the most rural communities in Iowa. Using KeyOnâ€™s
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(310) 4036307
Project Title: KeyOn WiMAX Indiana/Ohio
Proposed Project Area: Indiana, Michigan, Ohio
(VoIP) to almost 400,000 people in 148 of the most rural communities in Indiana and Ohio. Using
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(310) 4036307
Project Title: KeyOn WiMAX Illinois
Loan Request: $14,665,875.00
(VoIP) to 1,312,843 people in 703 of the most rural communities in Illinois. Using KeyOnâ€™s
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(310) 4036307
Project Title: KeyOn WiMAX Colorado/Nebraska
Proposed Project Area: Colorado, Nebraska
(VoIP) to 492,512 people in 362 of the most rural communities in Colorado and Nebraska. Using
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(310) 4036307
Project Title: KeyOn WiMAX Arkansas
(VoIP) to 394,699 people in 217 of the most rural communities in Arkansas. Using KeyOnâ€™s
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(310) 4036307
Project Title: KeyOn WiMAX Kentucky/Tennessee
(VoIP) to 726,272 people in 191 of the most rural communities in Kentucky and Tennessee. Using
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Broadband USA
Applicant: RENOSPARKS INDIAN COLONY INC
Contact: NILA C SHANLEY
(775) 3292936
nshanley@rsic.org
Project Title: Hungry Valley Broadband Initiative
Proposed Project Area: Nevada
Description: To provide highspeed wireless internet at a minimum of 5 mbps, aggregate, to residents and 3
critical community services in a rural reservation located in Hungry Valley, Nevada.
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New Hampshire
Applicant: ARGENT COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
Contact: DANIEL MURDOUGH
(603) 2421205
dan@argentcommunications.com
Project Title: Argent Communications Northern New Hampshire
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Fiber to the home upgrade to an existing Cable System and the construction of two new towns
that are on the interconnect link. Project will also tie in an existing FTTH project with a new
headend site and establidh a redundent fiber loop. Will have advalible additional fiber for future
interconnects or system access by other projects
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Applicant: CITYVOICE COMMUNICATIONS CO.
Contact: CHRISTOPHER LOWTHER
(603) 6592912
chrislowther@cityvoice.biz
Project Title: Community Connect
Proposed Project Area: New Hampshire
Description: A lastmile project that will provide broadband and telephone service to the following five unserved
New Hampshire communities: Acworth, Goshen, Lempster, Marlow and Unity. Wireless service
will be provided by WiMax technology. Space will be leased on four preexisting towers in
Acworth, Lempster, Unity and Newbury. Towers will each be equipped with three 120Â° sector
antennas to provide coverage. The project will pass 1,869 households and 10 businesses.
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Applicant: GRANITE CONNECTION, THE
Contact: MARK W GREENWOOD
(603) 2960760 x114
rdumont@spectraaccess.com
Project Title: The Granite Connection Grafton
Description: The Granite Connection Grafton is our 4th project in wireless broadband internet. This project will
provide wireless broadband internet to areas of Grafton County, NH utilizing WIMAX technology.
We will utilize many subs to insure quick startup and provide or save more than 50 jobs over the
course of the project. Our more than 50 yrs of wireless and network experience will help assure
success.
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Applicant: WIVALLEY, INC
Contact: BRIAN FOUCHER
(603) 5467200 x120
corporate@wivalley.net
Project Title: Last Mile Broadband for Rural Communities in Southwestern NH
Description: WiValleyâ€™s application 5768, â€œLast Mile Broadband for Rural Communities in Southwestern
NHâ€ , requests funding for Last Mile infrastructure that will provide coverage for an unserved
population of 22,564 and an underserved population of 38,779 within a service area of 550 square
miles. The project will enable us to expand coverage in the 20 towns WiValley currently serves in
addition to 19 new towns in Cheshire, Hillsborough, and Sullivan Counties. This application ties in
with the NH BTOP application 4248 "Network New Hampshire Now" and the Vermont Transit
Authority BTOP application "Vermont Fiber Link".
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New Jersey
Applicant: ATLANTA TRADING AND ENGINEERING CONSULTING LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
Contact: AHMED ABOGENDIA
(201) 7241874
ahmed@atecwireless.com
Project Title: PA ISP
Description: Project Description: We are aiming to establish a wireless broadband network to deliver high
speed internet service, voice over IP phone service and other IP based services in Bradford and
Susquehanna counties in PA.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: BLACK ICE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Contact: ERIC LOVE
(800) 7248918
elove@blackicetechnologies.net
Project Title: Build 4G Network infrastructures that will promote the demand for affordable & accessible broadband.
Proposed Project Area: New Jersey
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The proposed project is to build a 4G Network Infrastructure that will bridge the digital divide,
increase the demands for broadband, create jobs, and connect every endusers (residential,
commercial, schools, governments, law enforcement, hospitals, and etc) and endusers devices to
the broadband Internet.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: EDGENICS INC.
Contact: ROBERT E DANSBY
(732) 8875535
rdansby@edgenics.com
Project Title: Edgenics Municipal and Enterprise Broadband Region 3
Proposed Project Area: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi
Loan Request: $27,829,300.00
Description: The Edgenics Municipal and Enterprise Broadband (EMEB) Project focuses on building,
deploying, maintaining and operating broadband infrastructure and Value Added Services
[ including for example: ELearning , Telemedicine and Smart Sensor Array Network Services], to
serve constituents in rural Service Areas. The EMEB Project will expand existing broadband
network infrastructure Edgenics installed during 2008 and 2009 with financing from USDA RUS
and is currently supporting pilot schools in six states.
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(732) 8875535
Proposed Project Area: Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee
Loan Request: $17,464,400.00
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Broadband USA
(732) 8875535
Proposed Project Area: Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas
Loan Request: $36,971,800.00
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Applicant: US CABLE OF NORTHERN NEW MEXICO, INC.
Contact: JAMES D. PEARSON
(201) 9309000 x200
jpearson@uscable.com
Project Title: Espanola Valley Broadband Initiative And Future Opportunities
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The purpose of our project is to promote the adoption of high speed broadband to the underserved
and vulnerable populations, including anchor institutions of Espanola, Dixon, and Penasco, New
Mexico ( proposed service areas), and to create jobs. The proposed funded service areas are
underserved. As detailed elsewhere in our application, we have conducted independent surveys
which confirm our statement. In addition, we have received letters from local officials which are
consistent with our findings. These results were expected given the vulnerable nature of our
populations.
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New Mexico
Applicant: AGAVUE
Contact: SCOTT SCHOOLEY
(505) 9234000
agavue2@acrsokc.com
Project Title: New Mexico Tribal Coalition WiMax Project
Description: Agavue,LLC, a New Mexico based ISP ("Agavue") proposes a lastmile, high speed WiMax
broadband wireless project with connection speed of up to 20Mbps to serve approximately 12,425
households, 2,698 businesses and 85 community anchor institutions and three Native American
pueblos in Taos, Colfax, Rio Arriba and Sandoval counties in rural North New Mexico. All
proposed funded service areas are rural and underserved according to NOFA definitions. WiMax
infrastructure is the most costeffective, highspeed broadband solution for unserved and
underserved businesses and residents in the proposed funded service areas. RUS has previously
approved and begun funding of Agavue's WiMax project in Mazano & Cerrillos, New Mexico.
Benefits for the targeted areas are substantial, including job creation, medicine, economic
development and distance learning.
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Applicant: COMPUTER NETWORK SERVICE PROFESSIONAL INC
Contact: ALBERT F CATANACH
(505) 9861669
albert@cnsp.com
Project Title: CNSP Service Disabled VeteranOwned Business Broadband for Indian Reservations, Pueblos
Description: Computer Networks Service Professionals (CNSP), is a service disabled veteranowned business
offering broadband services to Indian Reservations, Pueblos (tribal lands) and other communities
in north central New Mexico. CNSP proposes to deploy a shovelready, sustainable, wireless
broadband Last Mile network to provide broadband services in a service area comprised of 5
counties, 4 Indian Reservations, and 7 Pueblos in north central New Mexico covering
Congressional Districts 1, 2 and 3. The proposed funded service areas are comprised of high
percentages of minorities (48% Hispanic, or 4 times the national average, 8% Native American, or
8 times the national average) and persons living below the poverty line (17%, 1.5 times the
national average).The proposed network will deliver broadband services to rural, underserved
communities while supporting healthcare, education, and public safety.
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Applicant: CYBER MESA COMPUTER SYSTEMS, INCORPORATED
Contact: JACK PESTANER
(505) 6034953
jackp@acucons.com
Project Title: Bring Broadband to Pecos
Description: Cyber Mesa Computer Systems Incorporated proposes to upgrade its current dialup Internet
service to broadband dslbased service to Pecos and Glorieta, New Mexico. These adjacent
completely rural communites have no broadband services available today. The proposed service
area includes 1381 housing units and 51 businesses and uses a combination of leased ILEC
copper loops and Cyber Mesa constructed fiber yielding a costeffective solution of less than
$1800 per housing unit passed. Substantially a lastmile project, fiber backhaul to Cyber Mesa hub
is included since IP bandwidth necessary to support the local network is not available locally.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: KIT CARSON ELECTRIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION, INC.
Contact: MICHAEL CURTIS WYLIE
(636) 6340109
eric@pulsebroadband.net
Project Title: Kit Carson Electric Cooperative FibertotheHome Project
Loan Request: $19,130,601.00
Description: Kit Carson Electric Cooperative in Northern New Mexico intends to build a last mile, open access,
fiber network to bring broadband to unserved and underserved residents, including Native
American Pueblos, community anchor institutions and critical community facilities; to enable Smart
Grid technology for sustainable energy development; and to create new jobs and foster economic
development.
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Applicant: LA JICARITA RURAL TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE
Contact: DANNY GRAY
(575) 3872216
nm517@ncom.com
Project Title: Broadband Services to Mora County, NM
Description: This project will fill the need for present and future bandwidth requirements by placing fiber to rural
subscribers. This project will also replace old and deteriorating copper telephone plant that is
nearing or has reached the end of its useful life. This project will be extending full fiber capabilities
to rural establishments and give them the increased bandwidth comparable with any urban
establishment. This last mile project, along with the middle mile component will allow La Jicarita to
provide affordable, higher speed last mile services to a larger majority of their existing subscriber
base that they would otherwise not be able to accomplish. In addition, La Jicarita would have
future opportunities not yet recognized by being connected to a statewide backbone ring that will
eventually broaden La Jicaritaâ€™s ability to receive and extend services throughout the state of
New Mexico.
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Applicant: LEACO RURAL TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE, INC.
Contact: LAURA ANGELL
(575) 3705010
langell@leaco.org
Project Title: SE New Mexico Broadband Initiative for BRS
Description: Leaco Project Description: Leaco Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (Leaco) was established in
1954 with its headquarters located in Hobbs, New Mexico. Leaco is a telecommunications utility
acting as a local exchange carrier in southern New Mexico and Texas. Leaco provides wireline
and wireless voice and data service to an area of over 5,200 square miles. Leaco through the
ARRA BIP grant process will provide broadband service using wireless fixed data and FTTH
technologies in the very rural areas of New Mexico and Texas. Leaco plans to serve 3,550
households 482 businesses and 3 anchor institutions/public safety facilities. Both the FTTH
wireline and WiMax wireless systems proposed build upon the existing infrastructure planned or in
place thus reducing the overall cost per premises passed. The cost of the ARRA BIP project is
$30,596,105.
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Applicant: MESCALERO APACHE TELECOM INC.
Contact: GODFREY ENJADY
(575) 4644039
genjady@matinetworks.net
Project Title: MATI Middle Mile Project: Mescalero to Albuquerque
Description: Mescalero Apache Telecom, Inc. (MATI) is proposing a 10 Gbps middle mile network to serve 11
communities in rural New Mexico. The MATI Middle Mile Project: Mescalero to Albuquerque will
provide service to key anchor institutions and allow MATI to sell services to other Internet service
providers, providing them with a physically redundant route to Albuquerque. This new network will
provide service directly to anchor institutions and indirectly to 19,502 households and 3,969
businesses in rural Otero, Torrance, Valencia, and Bernalillo Counties.
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Applicant: PENASCO VALLEY TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE, INC.
Contact: ROY DALE LAMAN
(575) 7481241
dalel@pvt.com
Project Title: PVT Rural Broadband
Description: â€œPenasco Valley Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (in a consortium with coapplicant PVT
Networks, Inc.) is proposing a fixed and mobile last mile solution (with a middle mile component)
to address underserved and unserved rural areas of southern and central New Mexico.â€ . PVT
NetWorks, a subsidiary, owns 700 MHz spectrum that covers the proposed area. The proposal
includes middle mile fiber and microwave equipment to connect the sites and to reach an alternate
internet POP for redundancy and lower cost access, reducing access costs by more than 50%.
The proposed fiber and fixed wireless solution will enable the delivery of broadband services to
virtually all critical community facilities across the service regionâ€™s 10county area. A benefit of
this project will be economic growth in this rural area, where the latest Census data shows that
21.4% of its residents live below the poverty line.
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Applicant: SACRED WIND COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Contact: JOHN W. BADAL
(505) 8215080
jbadal@swctel.com
Project Title: Sacred Wind Communications Middle Mile Navajo Project
Description: Sacred Wind Communications (SWC) capitalizes on its recently constructed fixed wireless
infrastructure to extend its high capacity Broadband system to 4,528 square miles of adjacent
Navajo lands in New Mexico, supporting services provided by the ILEC and all aspiring CLECs.
Eight new towers are to be constructed; and point to point MW antenna are to be installed on
those, on eight other towers owned today by SWC, and at each community tower site to be
operated by a Last Mile provider. 100 Mbps capacity is to be provided to 27 Navajo communities,
reaching a total of 8,370 homes, 106 CCF, 38 Head Start sites, and 67 businesses.
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New York
Applicant: CASTLE CABLE TV
Contact: MARK WILLIAM DEPERRIOR
(315) 3245911
markcpa@cittele.com
Project Title: Castle Cable, TV Broadband Project
Description: Castle Cable TV, Inc. proposes to extend broadband and other advanced telecommunications
services through several communities located in Jefferson and St. Lawrence Counties of New
York State, passing 2,119 homes and 209 businesses. To accomplish this, Castle plans
construction associated with its engineered design network to: deploy a FiberToTheHome
(FTTH) wire line technology, update access in the headend necessary to support the extension of
the broadband network to these areas, and utilize a Passive Optical Network (PON) configuration
and to allow for future PON upgrades without having to rebuild the transport routes.
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Applicant: CHAZY AND WESTPORT TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Contact: LOWELL P FELDMAN
(512) 8882311
lowellfeld1@yahoo.com
Project Title: Lake George Wireless
Proposed Project Area: New York, Vermont
Description: Chazy and Westport Telephone Corporation, a Title II RLEC, desires to build in conjunction with
Lake George Wireless, a wireless subsidiary, a new 4G LTE broadband wireless network in 5
service areas in the upstate New York region. These areas are both certified as underserved or
unserved by the State of New York and are within the FCC CMA 266, in which LGW has obtained
an exclusive right to use for the 700 MHZ BBlock Auction 73 license.
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Applicant: CLARITY CONNECT INC
Contact: CHUCK BARTOSCH
(607) 2275500
chuck@clarityconnect.com
Project Title: Central Upstate NY Last Mile Project
Description: Our proposal is a last mile open access solution with a supporting middle mile component that
ensures broadband is available, accessible, and compelling to under served areas Tompkins, and
southern Cayuga Counties. The network consists of a fiber backbone and an optimized mix of
fibertothehome and fixed broadband wireless last mile solutions.
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Applicant: CRYSTAL RUN VILLAGE INC
Contact: GLEN CHALMERS
(845) 5327400
glen@broadbandconsultingservices.com
Project Title: Last mile lineextensions Crystal Run Village
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Time Warner Cable will construct the four separate"last mile" line extensions of hybrid fiber/coax,
to service facilities owned by (the applicant)nonprofit Crystal Run Village located in rural Sullivan
County, NY. In addition to these locations, the cable lineextensions will provide high speed
Broadband service to 35 other rural consumers. The house counts were provided by an actual ride
out performed by Time Warner Cable and consequently give a more accurate assessment then
the data provided in the mapping tool. The actual quotes were provided as supplemental
documents. Crystal Run Village Inc. submits this application in order to receive Broadband from
Time Warner Cable, Therefore some of the required documents may not be applicable to the
project because they apply to the provider (Time Warner)of the service not the receiver (Crystal
Run Village, Inc.)
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Applicant: FLINT COMMUNICATIONS
Contact: BRYAN KINNEY
(518) 3586006
michael.pieper@rrpartners.com
Project Title: Akwesasne Community Broadband Initiative by Flint Communications
Description: Flint Communications, LLC (â€œFlintâ€ ) is a 90% Native American owned New York
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) proposing to construct 209 miles of fiber optic cable
and purchase, design, engineer and deploy the necessary equipment and electronics to deliver
Fiber to the Premise (â€œFTTPâ€ ) broadband services to 1,600 households, 100 businesses
including socially and economically disadvantaged businesses, and 13 anchor institutions in the
remote Akwesasne region immediately south of the Canadian border.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: JETBROADBAND WV, LLC
Contact: GEORGE PSYLLOS
(203) 5489196
gpsyllos@jetbroadband.com
Project Title: McDowell County, WV Broadband Service Upgrade
Proposed Project Area: Virginia, West Virginia
Description: JetBroadband WV, LLC purposes tpo utilize Rurual Utilities Broadband Access Funds to upgrade
their existing coaxial cable and fiber optice CATV plant to provide Broadband Services in the West
Virginia communitites of Anawalt, Bradshaw, Davy, Gary, Iager, Keystone, Kimball, Northfork,
Welch, War, and the rural areas surrounding these communities in McDowell County West Virginia
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Broadband USA
Applicant: MIDHUDSON CABLEVISION INC
Contact: STEPHEN M RENAULT
(518) 6539349
stephenr@midhudson.com
Project Title: LastMile High Speed Broadband in Greene and Columbia Counties
Proposed Project Area: Massachusetts, New York
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: MidHudson Cable will bring High Speed Broadband to over 11,000 homes and businesses in this
rural region, which is located in the 75 mile corridor between New York City and the state Capital
in Albany. High speed access is critical to the region's economic development. Existing
Businesses expect high speed internet connections while attracting new businesses to this region
will require broadband infrastructure. The arrival of high technology and nano technology
industries to the north like AMD's semiconductor fabrication plant puts pressure on the area to
provide suitable housing and telecommunications infrastructure.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: NEW HORIZONS WIRELESS, INC.
Contact: CHAD RICE
(315) 2624344
chad@newhorizonswireless.com
Project Title: Connect Rural St. Lawrence
Description: New Horizons Wireless will bring fixed wireless broadband services to more than 9,000 residents,
businesses and critical community institutions in rural St. Lawrence County, New York that
currently must rely on dialup access to the Internet. Without access to the costeffective
broadband services to be provided by this project, these citizens and communities will be unable
to compete for the kinds of jobs and educational opportunities that are available in the 21st
century. The very low population density of the roughly 1,000 square miles covered by this project
means that there is simply no costeffective broadband solution except wireless. Our company is
local and is committed to helping the county improve the lives of its citizens our neighbors. This
project will deliver exactly the kind of infrastructure and benefits envisioned by the 2009 ARRA.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: NEW VISIONS POWERLINE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Contact: CARMEN NICHOLAS BRANCA
(315) 4726300
cbranca@nvplc.com
Project Title: Oswego County, NY Next Generation 911 & Last Mile Broadband Services
Loan Request: $29,826,602.00
Description: The Syracuse based company, New Visions PLC, Inc., proposes â€œNext Generation 911 & Last
Mile Broadband Services Projectâ€ to extend its FTTH broadband services to Oswego County,
New York. At the same time, it will create an interoperable emergency communications system
connecting vital tower sites into an integrated communication network. Deployment of a
countywide FTTH network infrastructure will provide 100% broadband availability in a truly
ubiquitous, scalable system with the speed, service, and reliability that only fiber can offer. Our
model of endtoend coverage is critical to accomplish the public safety, egovernment, distance
learning, and telemedicine programs that our rural citizens are aware of, but have yet to benefit
due to the Rural America digital divide.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: PLEXICOMM, LLC
Contact: DAN ENGLISH
(866) 7594678
dan@plexicomm.net
Project Title: Broome Tioga Broadband Project
Description: Plexicommâ€™s Broome Tioga Broadband Project will build 25 Last Mile WiMAX tower sites and
upgrade its existing core network. The build out will provide the latest wireless broadband
technology to needy rural households. Plexicomm has successfully deployed wireless broadband
services in the region since 2003 and looks forward to the opportunity to reach the underserved in
Broome and Tioga Counties. Rural NY is plagued with communities having broadband only
available to those in town leaving a good majority of the residents without for a lack of population
density or difficult wire line deployments. Plexicomm will overcome these obstacles with proven
technology and skills learned over the past 7 years while deploying wireless broadband in the
region. This project places Plexicomm in the position to further its reach into rural NY with its Open
Network design.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: RIDGEVIEW COMMUNICATIONS INC
Contact: DAN CHURCHILL
(315) 7770881
dchurchill@ridgeviewtel.com
Project Title: Northern New York Open Access Wireless Network
Description: This project provides wireless high speed internet access with a WiMAX offering in the 3650 MHz
spectrum (IEEE 802.16d standard) to rural unserved and underserved areas of St Lawrence
County, New York and the 1000 Islands Region of Jefferson County. It leverages an existing
wireless network, provides competitive rates, creates jobs, in a cost effective way, and establishes
an open access network which will allow competitors to deliver more services, resulting in better
technology, enhanced service, and a decrease in costs for the enduser. Finally it provides e
commerce training for small businesses and entrepreneurs to promote new economic activity for
the region. This project would not be possible but for the BIP combination grant and loans.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: SAINT REGIS MOHAWK TRIBE
Contact: JAMIE BAY
(518) 3582272
jamie.bay@srmtnsn.gov
Project Title: St. Regis Mohawk Tribe Connect (Economic Development for the 21st Century)
Description: The proposed rural broadband last mile open access proposal will build 68 +/ miles of fiber optic
infrastructure to the households, businesses and critical community facilities in the St. Regis
Mohawk Tribal community. The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe has also applied for the BTOP Public
Computer Center grant (bringing 120 computers to 5 sites: the Boys & Girls Club; the Senior
Center; the cultural museum/library; Tribal Employment Center and the Casino Resource center);
and the Sustainable Broadband Adoption grant (the Tribe will use 100 youth Technology Corps
members to help with digital literacy training). The Mohawk Network LLC's open access last mile
network will promote retail competition to serve the tribal customers and spur local entrepreneurial
efforts by removing the high cost of backbone infrastructure capital expenses.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: SLIC NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Contact: PHILLIP J WAGSCHAL
(315) 2441293
philw@slic.com
Project Title: St Lawrence Broadband Initiative
Description: Slic Network Solutions is proposing the construction of 660 miles of fiber optic cable in St
Lawrence County, New York. The network will pass 5856 homes 112 businesses and 30 critical
community institutions. Slic will deliver high speed broadband, voice, and IPTV service utilizing a
passive optical network.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: WORLD NETWORK INTERNATIONAL SERVICES, INC
Contact: WALTER IWACHIW
(631) 7311599
iwachiw@wnis.org
Project Title: BIP Mega Gigabyte Broadband by Water Last/Middle mile project for NYC metro and upstate New
York
Proposed Project Area: Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont
Loan Request: $132,000,000.00
Other Funding: $1,000,000,000.00
Description: USAC Spin Number 143012436 The deployment of Mega Gigabyte Broadband along waterways
in NYC to facilitate the 1 Gigabyte to the home infrastructure needs in the U.S.Gigabyte to the
home is achieved at a lower cost and short timeline by this patent pending deployment,which does
not replicated any existing infrastructure. WNIS has authorization to issue 3 Billion in Debt for
Infrastructure in NYS. This BIP application represents 75 % rural deployment along waterways
and canals in NYS. The 1 Gigabyte infrastructure will allow individuals to perform work at home
and have significant economic GDP impacts by reducing commuting time and increasing
productivity statewide. The concurrent deployment of kinetic turbines,fuel cell and microturbine
power technologies will provide for reduction of environmental pollutants while provide additional
streams of income from the power generation capacity.
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North Carolina
Applicant: AMERITECH BROADBAND, LLC
Contact: JOE MARCENO
(919) 2024530
jmarceno@ameritechutility.com
Project Title: AmeriTech Broadband BIP Application for Halifax County, NC
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: AmeriTech Broadband LLC. is submitting an application for Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP)
Second Round funding for Halifax County, North Carolina. The primary focus of this grant is to
provide WiMax Broadband service to the entire Halifax County. Through careful consideration of
the NOFA dated January 22, 2010, AmeriTech Broadband feels that it can provide the needed
broadband service to the Halifax Community.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: ATLANTIC TELEPHONE MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION
Contact: WILLIAM SCOTT DUTTON
(910) 7551701
sdutton@atmc.coop
Project Title: Columbus County ACCESS (Advanced Connectivity for Communities, Education, Safety and Support)
Description: Columbus County is a Persistent Poverty County and North Carolina Tier 1 Economically
Distressed County with a critical need for affordable, reliable, highcapacity connectivity at parity
with more affluent areas for economic diversification and recruitment; modernization and
expansion of existing businesses; job training and employment; enhancements for education,
community health, and public safety; and support programs for lowincome vulnerable
populations. Columbus County ACCESS will provide an all FibertothePremises network for high
capacity data, voice, and video services to critical community facilities and public safety entities,
passing 3,950 households and businesses and serving 3,160 households without Highspeed
Access today.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: CHATHAM WIRELESS, LLC
Contact: SCOTT R EVERY
(919) 5330143
scott@blast.com
Project Title: Novel pilot program for wireless broadband technology in Chatham County, NC
Description: This project will bring broadband internet access to over 80% of Chatham County within 5 years
after funding begins. Building on existing networks from Chatham Wireless(CW) and partnering
with Chatham County for towers, we will quickly deploy on 15 towers to provide coverage.
Additionally, three of the tower locations will be powered using photovoltaic systems selling
excess power back to the grid. We are leveraging existing height that is already in Chatham
County in order to keep costs and environmental issues to a minimum. We will also be upgrading
2 existing tower and installing 4 new 100ft towers in areas where there is a great need for height.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: CHEROKEE CABLEVISION INC
Contact: CHARLES J BALDWIN
(561) 2473889
cherokeecablevision@bitstream.org
Project Title: Upgrade CATV Network for Cherokee Indian Reservation
Description: This 100% rural project seeks funding to upgrade and expand an existing coaxial CATV network
to a fibertothehome architecture to provide high speed broadband internet access and
enhanced services to 2902 housing units and 709 businesses and community facilities (premises
passed) on and near, the Cherokee Indian Reservation in North Carolina. The project further
seeks to help bridge the technological divide, boost economic growth, create jobs, facilitate job
training, and improve education and healthcare in a chronically distressed region.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: CITIZENS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, INC.
Contact: GLENN KRUSE
(678) 5762527
kruse1@bellsouth.net
Project Title: Stokes Rockingham Broadband
Proposed Project Area: North Carolina, Virginia
Description: The proposed project is a joint effort between Stokes and Rockingham Counties in Northern North
Carolina. This is a Wireless Last Mile Broadband project targeted at providing broadband service
to unserved residents in rural areas within each county.
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Applicant: COUNTRY CABLEVISION INC
Contact: BRYAN HYDER
(828) 6824706
bhyder@ccvn.com
Project Title: Yancey Mitchell Rural Broadband
Description: The YMRB project will promote social and economic development in a rural, economically
distressed area of North Carolina by delivering digital services (TV, data and VoIP) to community
households, businesses and key anchor institutions. The present cable system and transmission
network will be upgraded to the latest technology to ensure performance for all end users far into
the future. III. How many jobs will be created or saved from this project? During the construction
and implementation phase of the YMRB project 13 job positions will be created. After the system
is completed, eight fulltime staff positions will be created in the customer service and technical
support departments.
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Applicant: EASTERN BAND OF THE CHEROKEE INDIANS
Contact: MICHELL HICKS
(828) 4977002
jasolamb@nccherokee.com
Project Title: Cherokee Broadband Enterprise
Description: The Cherokee Broadband Enterprise will use wireless and fiber technology to create a network
providing broadband connectivity to rural, remote, and unserved communiities on the reservation
lands. the enterprise is owned by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Significant work has
been completed through planning, analyses, and contracting with consultants.
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Applicant: EDGECOMBE, COUNTY OF
Contact: ERIC EVANS
(252) 6415775
ericevans@co.edgecombe.nc.us
Project Title: Edgecombe County Broadband
Description: This broadband project addresses the 20,392 households in Edgecombe County, of which 68% do
not have broadband internet services (per survey conducted August 2009). There is one city and
ten towns in Edgecombe County for a total of 20,392 households and 2954 businesses. Almost
100% of the unserved area and underserved area is rural. This project will provide service to the
total area of the County.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: FRENCH BROAD ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP
Contact: JEFF LOVEN
(828) 6492051
jeff.loven@frenchbroademc.com
Project Title: French Broad Electric BPL Project
Description: This project provides broadband internet access to Spring Creek, Laurel, Beech Glenn and areas
of Marshall and Mars Hill, North Carolina. Technology used in this project includes fiber optic
communications as the middle mile backhaul link and Broadband Over Powerlines as the last mile
medium to provide service to the subscriber. FBEMC has chosen this technology combination
because they can use existing infrastructure to deploy the system and minimize project cost. The
total number of households passed in the proposed funded service area is 1,721. There are at
least 80 businesses in the proposed funded service area. Critical community organizations in the
proposed funded service area include Laurel Elementary School, Laurel Medical Center, Spring
Creek Volunteer Fire Department, Spring Creek Community Center, Laurel Volunteer Fire
Department, and RevereRice Cove Community Center.
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Applicant: HALIFAX ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION
Contact: CHARLES H GUERRY
(252) 4455111
CGuerry@HalifaxEMC.com
Project Title: Halifax EMC Halifax/Warren Counties Middle Mile Trunk (HEMC Trunk)
Description: The HEMC Trunk will create Middle Mile availability at geographically diverse locations in rural
Halifax and Warren Counties providing the only service opportunity for most of this rural area. The
HEMC Trunk will also provide competitive service availability to Townships and Critical
Community. Upon award of grant, Halifax EMC will seek customers for dark fiber and relationships
with partners for Last Mile service for these two counties. Halifax EMC brings an extensive
Transmission and Distribution RightsOfWay network to provision Middle Mile and Last Mile
installation. HEMC itself will use fiber for interconnection of power station SCADA, Smartgrid AMI
(under construction), VOIP telecom, Video Security (future) and office Intranet and Internet.
Network Attach Points are planned to current HEMC offices in Enfield and near Macon, NC
subject to negotiation with incumbent suppliers.
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Applicant: LUMBEE RIVER ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP
Contact: MATT EPPS
(910) 8437961
matt.epps@lumbeeriver.com
Project Title: Lumbee River EMC Broadband Economic Development Initiative
Description: Lumbee River EMC will provide an advance fibertothehome (FTTH) broadband services via a
high speed fiber optic network designed for speed up to 100 Mbps to end users in our rural
proposed funded service area. Our last mile infrastructure project will provide high speed
broadband services that are urgently needed in rural communities by directly connecting homes,
businesses, public service agencies and key community institutions.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: MOUNTAIN AREA INFORMATION NETWORK
Contact: WALLY BOWEN
(828) 2550182
wallyb@main.nc.us
Project Title: LastMile Broadband Access for Graham County, N. C. and Mt. Mitchell State Park
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: This project will provide lastmile wireless broadband access to Graham County, N.C., one of the
state's most remote and underserved counties, and to Mt. Mitchell State Park, North Carolina's
oldest and most remote state park. Graham County has the highest unemployment rate
(19.3%) in North Carolina; it is the only county in the state without a fourlane highway. Mt.
Mitchell State Park is located on the tallest peak east of the Mississippi. Park staff, visiting
scientists, and the park's new environmental education classroom have no broadband access.
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Applicant: RED OAK TOWN OF
Contact: PATSY KING MCGHEE
(252) 4622434
patsy.duke.king@gmail.com
Project Title: Red Oak Nash County NC Broadband
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The Town of Red Oak has a plan to deploy broadband (fiber & wireless) throughout the unserved
rural areas of Nash County, NC(except for satellite and cell phone data)with approximately 12,682
households. The project will utilize both DSL and wireless technologies to provide service. The
middle mile will be fiber optic connectivity (provided by Century Link) to the internet POPâ€™s
serving the county.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: SKYLINE TELEPHONE MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION
Contact: MICHAEL LEWIS
(336) 8778302
Michael.lewis@skyline.org
Project Title: High Country Fiber
Proposed Project Area: North Carolina, Tennessee
Description: SkyLine Telephone and SkyBest Communications (its whollyowned subsidiary) will substantially
expand the provision of advanced fibertothehome (FTTH) services via a fiber optic network with
combined speeds exceeding 20 mbps to more than 7,000 households, local businesses and
anchor institutions in Alleghany and Ashe counties in rural, northwestern North Carolina.
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Applicant: SURRY TELEPHONE MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION
Contact: RICHARD CHARLES PARKER
(336) 3745021
rcparker@surry.net
Project Title: Surry Telephone Membership Corporation RUS BIP Last Mile Project Application for Round Two
Description: Surry Telephone Membership Corporation is the ILEC for rural areas of Surry, Stokes and
Davidson Counties in the Piedmont Region of North Carolina. Budgetary constraints and the
physical limitations of our existing copper network have not allowed STMC to provide more that 3
Mbps to our most rural areas. With the help of the BIP program, STMC plans to offer broadband
speeds of 6 Mbps and greater to those underservered customers. This will be achieved by
installing a â€œfuture bandwidth proofâ€ Active FTTH network from our existing wirecenters
directly to the customer premise. STMC will install access electronic equipment, in these
wirecenters and at the customer premise, that already has proven and reliable service. The Active
FTTH will utilize ribbon fiber cables as the backbone of the network. The project will pass 2,731
structures, of those 2,377 are underserved.
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Applicant: TRICOUNTY TELEPHONE MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION
Contact: GREGORY S COLTRAIN
(252) 9648018
gregc@gotricounty.com
Project Title: TriCounty Telecom FTTP Project
Description: TriCounty Telephone Membership Corporation (TCTMC) dba TriCounty Telecom proposes to
build a Fiber to the Premise (FTTP) network. This will provide high speed data, interactive
communications, entertainment services and voice services to residential customers, business
customers and critical community facilities in rural areas. The areas served are within northeast
Beaufort County and parts of Hyde and Washington Counties. TCTMC will use the funding to build
out and deploy a GPON network with inherent capability to deliver 80 MB per premise served.
This project will pass approximately 5,233 residential, business and critical community facilities.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: WILKES TELECOMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Contact: GEORGE LEE ROARK
(336) 9739079
georgeroark@wilkes.net
Project Title: Wilkes Stimulus Project
Description: Wilkes Telephone Membership Corporation, Inc. (WTMC), a nonprofit cooperative
telecommunications company headquartered in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, dba Wilkes
Telecommunications Inc., seeks funding to provide last mile fiber optic high speed broadband,
video, and voice services to underserved rural areas in Wilkes County, North Carolina. The project
has strong community support and will provide sustainable services to promote rural economic
development in the area. WTMC is currently building fiber to the home for its customers in the
more dense portions of its four exchanges in Wilkes County with the assistance of an RUS loan
but will use these funds to cover the less dense areas of its exchanges that are normally
uneconomical to serve. WTMC plans to work with the NC statewide network to improve the
availability of low cost Internet access to the more rural portions of the state.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: YADKIN VALLEY TELEPHONE MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION, THE
Contact: MITZIE BRANON
(336) 4635022
mitziebranon@yadtel.com
Project Title: Yadkin Valley Rural FTTH
Loan Request: $10,834,116.00
Description: Yadkin Valley Telephone Membership Corporation is a nonprofit rural cooperative serving the
vast majority of Yadkin and Davie counties, and portions of Iredell, Wilkes, Rowan and Alexander
counties in Western North Carolina. The Cooperative is seeking funds to deploy a highcapacity,
diverse, Last Mile, FibertotheHome (FTTH) network that will provide affordable, advanced
services to 5,783 households, businesses, community anchor institutions, and public safety
facilities. The Yadkin Valley Rural FTTH Project service area within the Cooperativeâ€™s service
territory is composed of small, sparsely populated communities without High Speed Access that
are in critical need of sustained economic development, support for anchor institutions and the 57
jobs that the Yadkin Valley Rural FTTH project will create.
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North Dakota
Applicant: CONSOLIDATED ENTERPRISES, INC.
Contact: KEN WEISENBERGER
(701) 4837376
ken@consolidatedtelcom.com
Project Title: CEI Broadband Infrastructure Project
Proposed Project Area: North Dakota
Description: The CEI Broadband Infrastructure Project consistes of two PFSAs in rural Dickinson and Belfield,
western North Dakota. The Project is a FTTH expansion to CEIâ€™s existing fixed wireless data
system in those areas. CEI will build fiber to the least populated areas of those communities
where it has been cost prohibitive to deploy FTTH and sometimes even DSL. In the PFSAs,
residences currently only have access to dialup Internet from Qwest or wireless Internet from CEI
at slower speeds of 4 Mbps. Under the Project, CEI will build out its facilities to pass all 1421
households in the PFSAs, and will be able to provide voice and video, as well as data services at
speeds up to 100 Mbps. The CEI Broadband Infrastructure Project will require approximately 21
new jobs to build and operate the system.
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Applicant: GRIGGS COUNTY TELEPHONE CO
Contact: TYLER KILDE
(701) 4373417
tylerk@mlgc.com
Project Title: Griggs County/Moore & Liberty Broadband Development
Description: Griggs County/Moore & Libertyâ€™s lastmile broadband project will use FibertotheHome
(FTTH) technology to bring affordable and reliable broadband access and video services to
underserved rural areas in eastern North Dakota. Griggs County/Moore & Liberty will build
facilities to 1,787 households, 406 businesses and 17 critical community entities for a total of
2,210 premises passed in communities in and around Enderlin, Sharon, Glenfield, Sheldon,
Finley, McHenry and the rural areas of Cooperstown, and Binford. Highspeed broadband services
and more extensive video services will enhance the quality of life to Griggs County/Moore &
Liberty subscribers, spur economic development in rural North Dakota, and improve services
delivered by critical community institutions.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: INTERCOMMUNITY TELEPHONE COMPANY INC
Contact: KEITH S. ANDERSEN
(701) 9248815
rstoa@ictc.com
Project Title: ICTC FTTH Upgrade
Description: InterCommunity Telephone Company, LLC. ICTC proposes a last mile fiber project in order to
address broadband availability currently lacking in the communities of Hope, Sanborn and Tower
City, three small underserved rural communities in three separate counties of east central North
Dakota. This proposed project includes improvement and connectivity for critical community
facilities, municipal and public safety services, area schools and libraries, and businesses all
located within these three communities. The project will create 3040 jobs providing positive
impact to the economy in the proposed funded service area communities.
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Applicant: MLGC, L.L.C.
Contact: TYLER KILDE
(701) 4373417
tylerk@mlgc.com
Project Title: MLGC Broadband Development
Description: MLGC is proposing a lastmile broadband project, using FibertotheHome (FTTH) technology, to
bring affordable and reliable broadband access to underserved rural counties in eastern North
Dakota including Richland, Ransom, Cass Grand Forks and Steele. MLGC will be building
facilities to 835 households and 110 businesses for a total of 945 premises passed. MLGC
understands the value of highspeed broadband service to enhance the quality of life of its
subscribers, spur economic development, and improve services delivered by rural communities. In
essence, MLGC is seeking to deploy its FTTH network as rapidly and extensively as possible
because the service they provide are vital to future of these rural communities. By obtaining grant
and loan funding through BIP, MLGC can accelerate its deployment and ensure that even the
least densely populated areas get this highquality service.
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Applicant: RED RIVER RURAL TELEPHONE ASSN (INC)
Contact: JEFFREY J. OLSON
(701) 5538309
jeffolson@rrt.net
Project Title: RRT FTTP Broadband Upgrade Rural MN, ND and SD Exchanges
Proposed Project Area: Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota
Description: The Red River Telephone (RRT) Fiber to the Premise (FTTP) Broadband Upgrade of rural
Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota exchanges will entail installing fiber to the premise to
1,272 unserved and underserved customer locations in 6 rural exchanges served by Red River
Rural Telephone Association in Ransom, Richland, and Sargent counties of North Dakota, as well
as Wilkin county in Minnesota and Roberts and Marshall counties in South Dakota. This extensive
project will place approximately 690 route miles of fiber optic cable to the proposed areas, bringing
broadband capabilities up to 100Mbps to customers who otherwise have relied on lesser quality
services such as dialup, wireless or satellite broadband services, all of which offer speeds below
the required service level.
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Applicant: S R T COMMUNICATIONS INC
Contact: JOHN A REISER
(701) 8581200
johnar@srttel.com
Project Title: FTTP for the Rural North Dakota Community of Metigoshe
Description: SRT Communications, Inc., proposes a fibertothepremise (FTTP) project that will provide
broadband services to the rural North Dakota exchange of Metigoshe. The project will provide
unparalleled broadband service to various town and rural subscribers within this proposed funded
service area. This FTTP project, utilizing fiber optic cable, will allow SRT to provide more than 20
Mbps broadband access to each of the 665 households and businesses, simultaneously.
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Applicant: STANDING ROCK TELECOM
Contact: MEL YAWAKIE
(612) 7307767
mel@turtleislandcom.com
Project Title: SRTI Fixed and Mobile Broadband Wireless System
Proposed Project Area: North Dakota, South Dakota
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Standing Rock Telecommunications, Inc. (SRTI), a 100% tribally owned Telecommunication
Corporation is seeking grant funding from the Broadband Infrastructure Program. SRTI proposes
to expand its existing wireless system to provide Broadband Fixed and Mobile wireless services to
the rural communities and scattered homes, farms and ranches within the Morristown, McIntosh,
rural Timber Lake, rural Isabel, rural Lemmon, and rural St. Anthony Exchanges in South Dakota
and North Dakota.
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Ohio
Applicant: G M N TRI COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE
Contact: JAMES HAROLD ARCHER
(740) 7322388
planner@gmncac.org
Project Title: GMN TriCounty Broadband Expansion Project
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Wireless Broadband Project to cover the unserved and underserved areas of Guernsey, Monroe
and Noble Counties.
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Applicant: HOMETOWN CABLE COMPANY LLC
Contact: SCOTT EDWARD PRUETER
(419) 6784090
sprueter@hometowncable.net
Project Title: UNINCORPORATED AREAS OF DARKE/PREBLE COUNTY NETWORK
Description: HOMETOWN CABLE COMPANY, LLC WILL PROVIDE COUNTYWIDE INTERNET AND
BROADBAND WIDE AREA NETWORK (WWAN) TO FACILITATE FIXED AND MOBILE
BROADBAND INTERNET THROUGHOUT DARKE AND PREBLE COUNTIES IN OHIO. THIS
NETWORK WILL ENABLE BROADBAND APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES SUCH AS:
RESIDENTIAL AND BUSINESS INTERNET, CONNECTION OF REMOTE SITES, WIFI,
REDUNDANT BROADBAND BACKUP, AND MOBILE BROADBAND TO RURAL AREAS.
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Applicant: INTELLIWAVE, LLC
Contact: CHRIS COOPER
(740) 5920322
ccooper@intelliwave.com
Project Title: The Washington County Ohio Rural Broadband Initiative
Description: Intelliwave, Southeast Ohioâ€™s largest and most experienced Wireless Internet Service Provider
will leverage Broadband Initiatives Program funds to sustainably deliver affordable wireless high
speed Internet access and VOIP phone services to the chronically underserved and unserved
Appalachian Ohio communities in rural Washington County, Ohio. This project will greatly
enhance these communities by promoting economic development, creating jobs, increasing
educational opportunities and improving access to health care. Intelliwaveâ€™s Washington
County broadband plan will also ensure that all services are delivered cost effectively while
offering rural residents and businesses a highly robust, low cost service option.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: JBNETS
Contact: STEPHEN F KLINE
(740) 4462975 x135
customerservice@jbnets.net
Project Title: JBNets Gallia County, Ohio BIP Wireless Expansion
Description: JBNets proposes to expand its current wireless broadband service now existing in Gallia County,
Ohio to all remaining eligible areas in Gallia County, Ohio as defined in the rules defined for
Round 2 of the ARRA Broadband funding.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: NELSONVILLE TV CABLE, INC
Contact: JIM EDWARDS
(740) 7073442
62765@nelsonvilleTV.com
Project Title: Nelsonville TV Cable HFC Broadband Addition
Description: Project will extend HFC Digital Cable Services to approximately 1,500 homes in unserved areas of
Athens, Hocking, and Morgan Counties in Ohio. Athens County, OH is a "Persistent Proverty
County" as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. The cost per premises passed is less than $1,000
each.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: NEW ERA BROADBAND
Contact: DAVID HANNUM
(740) 6673350
sales@newerabroadband.com
Project Title: Meigs County Broadband Infrastructure Project for Advancement of Rural Economic Development
Description: This project will deliver broadband and high speed broadband services to over three thousand
unserved residences, businesses and critical facilities in rural Appalachian Meigs County Ohio,
providing economic development opportunities and facilitating emergency services.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: SOUTHERN OHIO COMMUNICATION SERVICES, INC
Contact: GARY C COOPER
(740) 9472409
bret.childers@gmail.com
Project Title: Southern Ohio Underserved Rural Broadband Build
Description: We will be providing broadband and VOIP services to the unserved and underserved anchor
institutions, businesses, and residents of Adams and Pike counties in Ohio. We will be providing
wireless service with service offering speeds up to 3Mbps down and 2Mbps up.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: SYCAMORE TELEPHONE COMPANY (INC)
Contact: STEVEN EKLEBERRY
(419) 9276012
sekleberry@bright.net
Project Title: Sycamore FTTH
Description: Sycamore Telephone proposes to build a fibertothehome system within the village of Sycamore,
the village of Melmore, and the village of McCutchensville. In the areas outside the villages, fiber
will be placed to the existing DSL terminals thereby allowing Sycamore Telephone Company to
provide broadband speeds of over 5mb/s to the subscribers thoughout their exchange. These
changes will further allow the introduction of IPTV to these rural communities.
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Oklahoma
Applicant: ABSENTEE SHAWNEE TRIBE OF OKLAHOMA, INC., THE
Contact: GEORGE BLANCHARD
(405) 2754030 x207
gblanchard@astribe.com
Project Title: Absentee Shawnee Tribe Rural Broadband Project
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The project focuses on the provision of wireless broadband and wide area wifi services to a rural
area which does not have affordable broadband access and which includes a significant
population of low income, economically disadvantaged Native Americans currently without
affordable internet access.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: ATLINK
Contact: KERRY LEIGH CONN
(405) 3438232
kerrylconn@gmail.com
Project Title: Last Mile Broadband Infrastructure for Unserved, Rural Oklahoma Communities
Description: @Link Services proposed to connect 14 communities eligible for the Broadband Community
Connect Program currently administered by the USDA Rural Utility Service. These communities
have been determined to have persistent poverty, low populations and a median household
income of less than 60% of the State Median Household income. The funded project will provide
last mile broadband infrastructure to 14 rural, Oklahoma communities that currently have no
access to the internet at any speed. These communities are persistent poverty communities
designated by the Oklahoma Department of Commerce as Enterprise Zones. The delivery of
broadband to these chronically unserved areas will promote rural economic development and
improve education, health care and public safety.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: CIMMARRON TELEPHONE CO
Contact: GENE BALDWIN
(918) 8653311
hgb@cimtel.net
Project Title: Operation Slingshot Cimarron Telephone Company
Loan Request: $21,189,659.00
Description: The project will provide both FTTH and wireless broadband service to underserved areas of
Payne, Osage, Creek, Pawnee and Okfuskee counties in Oklahoma. The project passes 8,966
households and 933 businesses. The project also passes portions of Native American tribal land
including the Osage, Pawnee and Creek tribes and will provide services to 35 critical community
facilities.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: COMANCHE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT I2
Contact: TERRY DAVIDSON
(580) 4392900
tdavidson@comanche.k12.ok.us
Project Title: Comanche School District National Broadband Plan 1:1 Computing Pilot Project
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: If funded, Comanche School District will deploy a mobile wireless broadband network to connect
its 1:1 computing enabled students to the school district's intranet after hours enabling a 7x24x365
instruction environment. This will place Comanche School District at the forefront for broadband in
education goals established by the National Broadband Plan to bring broadband and computers to
the student's home after school hours.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: CROSS TELEPHONE CO
Contact: DAVID V. MILLER
(918) 4632921
vdavidii@crosstel.net
Project Title: OBI1 (Oklahoma Broadband Initiative Area 1)
Loan Request: $22,453,595.00
Description: Cross Telephone Company will provide FTTH and wireless broadband service to underserved
areas of ten counties in Eastern and Southeastern Oklahoma. The project passes 47,920
households and 4,470 businesses. The project also passes portions of at least two Native
American tribal lands and will provide services to 158 critical community facilities. Cross is also
initiating a project called BOLT (Broadband for Oklahomans Learning with Technology). The
program fosters innovation by utilizing wireless broadband connectivity to learning devices that go
home with students in Senior High School and Secondary Education. It utilizes wireless Netbook
applications.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: CROSS TELEPHONE CO
Contact: DAVID V. MILLER
(918) 4632921
vdavidii@crosstel.net
Project Title: OBI2 (Oklahoma Broadband Initiative Area 2)
Description: Project Description: Cross Telephone Company will provide FTTH and wireless broadband service
to underserved areas of six counties in Oklahoma. The project passes 20,771 households and
4,183 businesses. The project also passes portions of three Native American tribal lands and will
provide services to 111 critical community facilities. Cross is also initiating a project called BOLT
(Broadband for Oklahomans Learning with Technology). The program fosters innovation by
utilizing wireless broadband connectivity to learning devices that go home with students in Senior
High School and Secondary Education. It utilizes wireless Netbook applications.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: DURACOM INC
Contact: GEORGE BREEDEN
(580) 9200870
rhino@acrsokc.com
Project Title: Southeast Oklahoma Broadband Choctaw Tribal and Rural Residents
communities with the latest in WiMAX broadband service that today is 100% unserved. The
project will offer a Broadband Lifeline Program. The Program will enable low income families who
qualify for Lifeline voice plans to receive discounted broadband services. This project will create
hundreds of long term job opportunities and will offer discounted service to all critical community
facilities.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: MEDICINE PARK TELEPHONE COMPANY
Contact: EDWARD HILLIARY
(580) 5292700
mptc@mptelco.com
Project Title: Rural North Texas Wireless Broadband Project
Description: This Project consists of deploying a 3.65 GHz WiMax technology to very rural portions of Northern
Texas. This project consists of 8,799 homes of which 90% are underserved and 23.9% are
completely unserved. Such a project would revitalize many of the communities in the area; in
addition to saving and creating hundreds of jobs. Medicine Park Telephone Co, Inc., a family
owned ILEC and RUS partner on an assortment successful projects, leads a team of six
companies for this shovelready project
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Broadband USA
(580) 5292700
mptc@mptelco.com
Project Title: South Central Rural Oklahoma Wireless Project
Description: This Project consists of deploying a 3.65 GHz WiMax technology to very rural portions of South
Central Oklahoma. This project consists of 22,279 homes of which 90% are underserved and
41.6% are completely unserved. The proposed funded service area includes many homes that are
well below the poverty line, in the former KiowaComancheApache Reservation in southwestern
Indian Territory. Such a project would revitalize many of the communities in the area, in addition to
saving and creating hundreds of jobs. Medicine Park Telephone Co, Inc., a family owned ILEC
and RUS partner on an assortment successful projects, leads a team of six companies for this
shovelready project.
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(580) 5292700
mptc@mptelco.com
Project Title: Town of Sterling, Oklahoma Fiber to the Home Project
Description: This Project consists of installing a GPON FTTH network in the Sterling, OK community. This area
is currently served by Windstream for phone service, but is isolated from the outside world, without
any wireline broadband connectivity.Â This project consists of 664 homes of which 100% are
completely unserved. Such a project would revitalize the community; in addition to saving and
creating over many jobs within the community. The proposed funded service area includes many
homes that are well below the poverty line, in the former KiowaComancheApache Reservation in
southwestern Indian Territory.Â In addition, all equipment purchased would provide for additional
sales tax dollars for the region. Medicine Park Telephone Co, Inc., a family owned ILEC and RUS
partner on an assortment successful projects, leads a team of six companies for this shovelready
project.
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(580) 5292700
mptc@mptelco.com
Project Title: Fiber to the Home project in the Rural area of Meers in Comanche County Oklahoma
Description: The Project consists of installing a GPON FTTH network in the Meers community in rural and
remotes areas of Comanche County. This area currently has limited phone service, and is isolated
from the exchangeâ€™s central office by a National Wildlife Refuge making it virtually impossible
to upgrade their services. This project consists of 116 homes of which 47.4% are completely
unserved. The proposed funded service area includes many homes that are well below the
poverty line, in the former KiowaComancheApache Reservation in southwestern Indian Territory.
Medicine Park Telephone Co, Inc., a family owned ILEC and RUS partner on an assortment of
successful projects, leads a team of six companies for this shovelready project.
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Broadband USA
(580) 5292700
mptc@mptelco.com
Project Title: Rural Oklahoma KiowaWashita Counties Fiber to the Home Project
Description: This Project consists of installing a GPON FTTH network in the Kiowa County Oklahoma area.
This area is currently served by Windstream for phone service, but is isolated from the outside
world, without any wireline broadband connectivity. This project consists of 830 homes of which
79.6% are completely unserved. The proposed funded service area includes many homes that are
well below the poverty line, in the former KiowaComancheApache Reservation in southwestern
Indian Territory. Such a project would revitalize many of the communities in the area; in addition to
saving and creating many jobs. Medicine Park Telephone Co, Inc., a family owned ILEC and RUS
partner on an assortment successful projects, leads a team of six companies for this shovelready
project.
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(580) 5292700
mptc@mptelco.com
Project Title: Rural Comanche County Oklahoma Fiber to the Home Project
Description: This Project consists of installing a GPON FTTH network in Southern Comanche & Northern
Cotton Counties in Oklahoma. These areas, currently served by AT&T for voice service, lack the
wireline broadband service that would enable them to compete in todayâ€™s economy. This
project consists of 1,867 homes of which 100% are completely unserved. The proposed funded
service area includes many homes that are well below the poverty line, in the former Kiowa
ComancheApache Reservation in southwestern Indian Territory. Such a project would revitalize
many of the communities in the area, in addition to saving and creating hundreds jobs. Medicine
Park Telephone Co, Inc., a family owned ILEC and RUS partner on an assortment successful
projects, leads a team of six companies for this shovelready project.
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(580) 5292700
mptc@mptelco.com
Project Title: Sterling Oklahoma to Scotland Texas Rural Fiber Optic Route
Description: The project consists of installing a 70 mile Fiber transport network between Sterling, OK and
Scotland, TX. This network will pass through three communities, of which 100% are underserved
and 32.1% are completely unserved, and provide High Speed Fiber connections to two Health
clinics, three town Halls, four fire departments and one library. In addition, two internet companies
and multiple cellular companies have been contacted regarding bandwidth opportunities. Medicine
Park Telephone Co, Inc., a family owned ILEC and RUS partner on an assortment successful
projects, leads a team of six companies for this shovelready project.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: PINE TELEPHONE COMPANY INC
Contact: COOPER LEE BROWN
(580) 3061020
pinetel@pinenet.com
Project Title: Last Mile ILEC FibertotheHome for Isolated Rural Southeastern Oklahoma/Choctaw Nation
Loan Request: $15,081,959.00
Description: The network proposed by PTC is a hybrid design including a fiber to the home (FTTH) and fiber to
the node (FTTN) solution for their existing service area. This proposed network will enable PTC to
provide rural subscribers with services typically available in only the most urban areas of our
country. In addition to enabling data rates of up to 40 Mbps, the network will enable video delivery
via affiliate headend facilities. Wireless microwave backhaul is proposed in some extremely
rugged portions of the network. Subscribers in these locations will receive the same data services
provided to the FTTN subscribers. The proposed soft switch will enable PTC to convert
subscribers to voice over IP (VoIP), further enhancing network utilization. Additionally, the
proposed network will provide much needed backhaul for the wireless network of Easygrants 1257
awarded in round one.
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Broadband USA
(580) 3061020
pinetel@pinenet.com
Project Title: Last Mile Broadband for Isolated Rural Southeastern Oklahoma/Choctaw Nation Area 1
Description: This project expands the service area of an adjacent first round BIP last mile award to Pine
Telephone Company (EasyGrants 1257). The proposed funded service area would have been
included in the first round application but for the limitations of the â€œremoteâ€ definition. The
project will use innovative and proven wireless technology to deliver affordable broadband service
to portions of entirely rural and economically disadvantaged Southeast Oklahoma (within the
Choctaw Nation) to create economic growth and jobs and enhance education, health care and
public safety. Pine Telephone Company will keep rates affordable and will invest free cash flow to
expand the system.
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Broadband USA
(580) 3061020
pinetel@pinenet.com
Project Title: Last Mile Broadband for Isolated Rural Southeastern Oklahoma/Choctaw Nation Area 2
Description: This project expands the service area of a nearby first round BIP last mile award to Pine
Telephone Company (EasyGrants 1257). The proposed funded service area would have been
included in the first round application but for the limitations of the â€œremoteâ€ definition. The
project will use innovative and proven wireless technology to deliver affordable broadband service
to portions of entirely rural and economically disadvantaged Southeast Oklahoma (within the
Choctaw Nation) to create economic growth and jobs and enhance education, health care and
public safety. Pine Telephone Company will keep rates affordable and will invest free cash flow to
expand the system.
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Applicant: PIONEER TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE, INC.
Contact: RICHARD RUHL
(405) 3754111
raruhl@ptci.com
Project Title: Pioneer Tel FTTH Rural Broadband Initiative
Loan Request: $10,958,906.00
Description: Pioneer Telephone Cooperative, Inc. will provide FTTH broadband service to remote areas within
its 76 western Oklahoma telephone exchange boundaries. Pioneer can provide service to 3952
households, 160 businesses and 5 anchor institutions/public safety facilities using existing
infrastructure from higher populated areas to reduce the overall capital costs for the 43 PFSAs to
be built. With 673.41 miles of fiber construction, customers will be able to receive the same data,
voice and video service as provided in the rural communities, schools and hospitals. The cost for
the project of $35,930,840 and will give the rural areas a lifeline to customers to allow the use of
affordable broadband service.
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Applicant: POTTAWATOMIE TELEPHONE CO.,THE
Contact: DAN OVERLAND
(405) 9975201
dan@goptc.net
Project Title: Operation Slingshot Pottawatomie Telephone Broadband Initiative
Loan Request: $10,617,630.00
Description: The project will provide both FTTH and wireless broadband service to underserved areas of
Cleveland, Lincoln, Pontotoc and Pottawatomie counties in Oklahoma. The project passes 9212
households and 3250 businesses. The project also passes portions of Native American tribal land
including the Chickasaw Nation, Kickapoo Nation, Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma, Sac and Fox Nation,
Pottawatomie Nation, Absentee Shawnee tribes and will provide services to 63 critical community
facilities.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: SALLISAW, CITY OF
Contact: DAVE STOCKTON
(404) 6413000
dstockton01@comcast.net
Project Title: FTTP Broadband in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma
Description: The City of Sallisaw, Oklahoma, via the Sallisaw Municipal Authority (a public trust of the City), is
applying for ARRA funds to extend the availability, affordability and speed of broadband within the
population centers of Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. The City operates an existing FTTP system
serving Sallisaw. If funded, the City would extend this system into the areas of Sequoyah County
where broadband is not available.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: STELERA WIRELESS, LLC
Contact: JOHN CURTIS
(405) 7513525 x222
john.curtis@stelera.com
Project Title: Stelera Wireless Rural Broadband Application
Proposed Project Area: Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Texas
Loan Request: $36,573,524.00
Description: Stelera Wireless plans to build and operate next generation wireless broadband services in cities
located in Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico and Texas. Using licensed spectrum, Stelera
will utilize a High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) to serve these markets.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: TERRAL TELEPHONE COMPANY
Contact: DICK R. SEGRESS
(405) 6401166
dick@ttslinx.com
Project Title: Terral Telephone Co Fiber to the Home High Speed Broadband Project
Description: This Fiber to the Home project will provide 335 housing units and 20 Businesses of Terral
Oklahoma and southern Jefferson County Oklahoma with State of Art telecommunications and
High Speed Broadband service, replacing outdated and deteriorating copper wire facilities and
aged unlicensed wireless broadband facilities. Terral Oklahoma and the surrounding area is an
economically depressed agricultural area thirty miles from the nearest economic center. The
community does not have many of the services needed for quality of life including a bank, a
grocery store or other shopping. The population depends on the Internet for many of their goods
and services. This project will give the residentâ€™s access to enhanced voice services, video
programming and high speed broadband Internet services. These services are vital to the
sustained viability of the community.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: TERRAL TELEPHONE COMPANY
Contact: DICK R. SEGRESS
(405) 6401166
dick@ttslinx.com
Project Title: Terral Telephone Co. WiMAX Wireless High Speed Broadband Project
Description: Easygrants ID: 4406 Project Title: Terral Telephone Co. WiMAX Wireless High Speed Broadband
Project Project Information Project Description: This project will provide State of Art High Speed
Broadband access to Internet and the other services available via a quality broadband connection
to 22 communities of south central Oklahoma and north central Texas who currently have no
access or very limited access to broadband services. This project will replace outdated and
deteriorating aged unlicensed wireless broadband facilities and bring service to many other
communities via WiMAX wireless broadband technology. The area is an economically depressed
agricultural region lacking many of the services needed for quality of life. These services are vital
to the sustained viability of the community.
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Applicant: TRIBALCOM, L.L.C.
Contact: GEORGE STAPLES
(405) 6201228
staplesg@agcn.com
Project Title: Arcadia OK BWIA
Description: The project will use innovative wireless technology to deliver affordable broadband service to
Arcadia Oklahoma, an entirely rural area 20 miles outside Oklahoma City on historical Route 66.
The proposed system will promote and create economic growth and local employment
opportunities in addition to enhancing internet accessibility to the areas education, health care and
public safety entities within the two mile area. During the first three years all moneys not needed to
service the grant/loan debt will be reinvested back into the system.
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Applicant: WHITESPACE LLC
Contact: DICK R SEGRESS
(405) 6401166
dick@wavelinx.net
Project Title: Wavelinx WiMAX Wireless High Speed Broadband Project
Description: Easygrants ID 6610 Project Title: Wavelinx WiMAX Wireless High Speed Broadband Project
Project Description Over the next 24 months Wavelinx will bring affordable High Speed Broadband
Internet service to about 500,000 Oklahomans in and around 159 underserved rural communities
throughout the central Oklahoma region. This system will provide speeds of greater than 6.5 Mbps
combined, based on the subscriberâ€™s individual needs. Wavelinx High Speed Broadband will
be available to over 200,000 homes and businesses.
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Oregon
Applicant: CASCADE UTILITIES, INC.
Contact: DENNIS ANDERSON
(503) 6308942
andersond@cuaccess.net
Project Title: Cascade Utilities Broadband Project
Proposed Project Area: Oregon
Description: The Cascade Utilities Broadband Project will place over 127 miles of fiber optic cable along with
installing and/or changing out 21 DSLAMs in rural Oregon to both areas that are unserved and
without high speed access.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: EAGLE TELEPHONE
Contact: MICHAEL LATTIN
(541) 8936111
comco@eagletelephone.com
Project Title: Keating Broadband Deployment
Description: To provide EVDO RevA wireless broadband services to the residents and businesses of the
Keating Valley, Oregon.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: GREENWIRE BROADBAND, LLC
Contact: PATRICIA R STEVENS
(541) 7161101
tricia@greenwirebroadband.com
Project Title: Oregon Broadband Initiative
Proposed Project Area: Idaho, Oregon, Washington
Loan Request: $90,944,782.00
Description: The team at Greenwire brings a stellar history in business, engineering, strategic relations and
project management including over 35 collective years of proven success and industry confidence.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: MCMINNVILLE ACCESS COMPANY
Contact: KATHY TATE
(503) 8836278
ktate@onlinenw.com
Project Title: Willamette Valley Rural Broadband
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: This project will increase broadband adoption and broadband throughput throughout rural areas of
Yamhill, Polk and Marion counties in Northwest Oregon. The network uses licensed and non
licensed wireless technologies to reach 15,230 households and 6,104 businesses throughout a
proposed funded service area of more than 1000 square miles.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: MINET
Contact: PHILL GARRETT
(503) 8370712
pgarrett@minetfiber.com
Project Title: Polk County Oregon Broadband Project
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: This grant application is being filed by Minet, an existing ORS 190 nonprofit corporation owned
and operated by the cities of Independence and Monmouth, Oregon. Minet proposes to extend its
existing â€œfibertothepremisesâ€ (â€œFTTPâ€ ) broadband communications network to
bring broadband to unserved and underserved areas adjacent to Minetâ€™s existing service area.
The new service area is predominantly in Polk County with a small area in Marion County.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: MONROE TELEPHONE COMPANY
Contact: JOHN T DILLARD
(541) 8475135
jtdillard@monroetel.com
Project Title: Monroe Telephone Cheshire & Greenberry Buildout Project
Description: This project will provide broadband services to unserved areas of Lane and Benton counties,
Oregon adjoining Monroe Telephone Companyâ€™s current service area using FTTP (Fiber to
the Premises) .
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Applicant: PINEHURST SCHOOL FOUNDATION, THE
Contact: JIM IMPARA
(541) 4823320
jim@ggs.net
Project Title: Greensprings Community Network
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Connect remote historic Pinehurst School District to Southern Oregon ESD via fiberoptic cable.
Provide broadband services to unserved rural residents along Oregon Hwy 66. Provide facilities
based broadband connections to rural fire, emergency responder, ODFW and commercial
customers along Hwy 66. Provide ongoing funding source to Pinehurst School Foundation for
school operations.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: RIO NETWORKS
Contact: MARK BILTONSMITH
(541) 4923030
heidi.p@rionetworks.com
Project Title: Rio Networks Rural WiMAX Expansion Program
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: To allow Rio Networks, a full service telecom company owned by the Cow Creek band of the
Umpqua Indian Tribe to extend 3G WiMAX multi service broadband access to small communities
serving more than 65,000 people in the state of Oregon.
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Applicant: TRANSCASCADES TELEPHONE COMPANY
Contact: DENNIS ANDERSON
(503) 6308942
andersond@cuaccess.net
Project Title: TransCascades Broadband Project
Description: The TransCascades Broadband Project consists of placing 40 miles of fiber optic cable along with
nine remote communications switches throughout TransCascades Telephone Company's (the
Company) entire service area in remote (0.22 customers per square mile) eastern Oregon. Those
customers that we can currently provide broadband to have maximum speeds of 1 Mbps down/
384kb up. This project will enable us to offer 10 Mbps+ speeds in both directions.
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Applicant: VANIR BROADBAND, INC.
Contact: ALLEN E SEYMOUR
(503) 8660125
aseymour@vanirmail.com
Project Title: Tillamook County Broadband Expansion Project
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The project plans to greatly expand and enhance our current broadband last mile delivery
microwave system to additional homes and businesses in both the unserved and underserved
parts of the county. With this expansion we will be able to reach approximately 1771 Housing
Units which have no current broadband availability and 3739 Housing Units who only have low
speed broadband access. Our technology allows for combined upload/download speeds in excess
of 5 Mbit/sec for these households. We will also provide a more inclusive broadband internet
delivery system which allows customers to purchase service in smaller increments, to serve the
lower income and part time residents in rural Tillamook county Oregon. Finally we intend to
provide cameras at strategic locations throughout the county that will allow county emergency
services and law enforcement personnel access to the images.
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Applicant: WARM SPRINGS TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY
Contact: JEFFREY E ANSPACH
(541) 5533565
janspach@wstribes.org
Project Title: The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Reservation Broadband Network
Description: The Warm Springs Telecommunications Company will construct a hybrid fiber/wireless network
throughout the reservation that will connect critical facilities, including the administrative buildings,
schools, health care facilities, all police/fire and public safety radio towers, as well as Kah Nee Ta
(the tribal resort). At the conclusion of this project, Broadband service will be available to all
residents, government agencies and businesses, many of whom have no broadband access.
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Pennsylvania
Applicant: ADVANCED REGIONAL COMMUNICATION COOPERATIVE
Contact: JOHN STROUP
(814) 5389112
john.stroup@verizon.net
Project Title: Advanced Regional Communication Network
Description: Remote advanced communications project providing last mile service to a underserved area within
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania through a reliable wireless network system owned and
operated by a public private partnership organized as a regional cooperative.
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Applicant: GETWIRELESS.NET, INC
Contact: DANIEL MYERS
(814) 8672100 x121
dan@lazerpro.com
Project Title: Getwireless.net Central Pennsylvania Expansion
Description: We propose the Getwireless.net Central Pennsylvania Expansion, which will provide critical high
speed services to the vast majority of Pennsylvaniaâ€™s remaining underserved areas. In
addition, we will work with tier 1 middle mile providers to supplement their networks and help them
reach these challenging, rural, wooded and mountainous areas. The project will provide
unprecedented speeds and prices and to residential users and will pass over 400 identified critical
community institutions.
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Applicant: GRIDLEY COMMUNICATIONS INC
Contact: HERBERT L FLESHER
(309) 7473780
hflesher@gridtel.com
Project Title: Lake Bloomington Broadband Project
Description: This grant is being filed by Gridley Communications Inc. of Gridley, IL seeking funding to help
construct a fibertothepremises (FTTP) network to serve homes located around Lake
Bloomington in Illinois in an area that is rural and currently unserved by terrestrial broadband. This
network would be a state of the art investment that not would provide high speed broadband now
and in the future.
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Applicant: INDIGO WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS LLC
Contact: DAVE TEWS
(570) 7237310
dtews@indigowireless.com
Project Title: Indigo Wireless Broadband for Sullivan County and Wyoming County Pennsylvania
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Indigo Wireless Broadband for Sullivan and Wyoming County, PA is a lastmile infrastructure
project that will provide essential access to highspeed broadband services to two of the most
rural counties in the North Central Tier. Indigo will provide both fixed wireless services to end
users in homes, businesses and critical community facilities and mobile wireless services to
mobile endusers to support public safety initiatives; including first responders for Emergency
Medical and Healthcare Services, Police and Fire Departments E911 Response, Lifeline Utility
Systems and Public Transportation Systems to maximize emergency response effectiveness and
preparedness. The highspeed broadband service offerings allow endusers access to greater
interoperable communications for data and voice services at affordable rates in areas where high
speed broadband services are basically nonexistent.
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Contact: DAVE TEWS
(570) 7237310
Project Title: Indigo Wireless Broadband for Potter County and Clinton County Pennsylvania
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Indigo Wireless Broadband for Potter and Clinton Counties, PA is a lastmile infrastructure project
that will provide essential access to highspeed broadband services to two of the most rural
counties in the North Central Tier. Indigo will provide both fixed wireless services to endusers in
homes, businesses and critical community facilities and mobile wireless services to mobile end
users to support public safety initiatives; including first responders for Emergency Medical and
Healthcare Services, Police and Fire Departments E911 Response, Lifeline Utility Systems and
Public Transportation Systems to maximize emergency response effectiveness and preparedness.
The highspeed broadband service offerings allow endusers access to greater interoperable
communications for data and voice services at affordable rates in areas where highspeed
broadband services are basically nonexistent.
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Contact: DAVE TEWS
(570) 7237310
Project Title: Indigo Wireless Broadband for Tioga County Pennsylvania
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Indigo Wireless Broadband for Tioga County, PA is a lastmile infrastructure project that will
provide essential access to highspeed broadband services to one of the most rural counties in the
North Central Tier. Indigo will provide both fixed wireless services to endusers in homes,
businesses and critical community facilities and mobile wireless services to mobile endusers to
support public safety initiatives; including first responders for Emergency Medical and Healthcare
Services, Police and Fire Departments E911 Response, Lifeline Utility Systems and Public
Transportation Systems to maximize emergency response effectiveness and preparedness. The
highspeed broadband service offerings allow endusers access to greater interoperable
communications data and voice services at affordable rates in areas where highspeed broadband
services are basically nonexistent.
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Contact: DAVE TEWS
(570) 7237310
Project Title: Indigo Wireless Broadband for Bradford County Pennsylvania
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Indigo Wireless Broadband for Bradford County, PA is a lastmile infrastructure project that will
provide essential access to highspeed broadband services to one of the most rural counties in the
North Central Tier. Indigo will provide both fixed wireless services to endusers in homes,
businesses and critical community facilities and mobile wireless services to mobile endusers to
support public safety initiatives; including first responders for Emergency Medical and Healthcare
Services, Police and Fire Departments E911 Response, Lifeline Utility Systems and Public
Transportation Systems to maximize emergency response effectiveness and preparedness. The
highspeed broadband service offerings allow endusers access to greater interoperable
communications data and voice services at affordable rates in areas where highspeed broadband
services are basically nonexistent.
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Applicant: USA CHOICE INTERNET SERVICES LLC
Contact: RAYMOND SCHWABENBAUER
(814) 6788826
rbyrnes@versar.com
Project Title: BRIDGING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE A LAST MILE SOLUTION FOR UNDERSERVED/UNSERVED
NW PENNSYLVANIA
Description: USA Choice will deploy a fixed wireless and mobile broadband system in four counties in
Northwestern Pennsylvania. USA Choice will utilize its licensed frequencies at 700 MHz and will
employ a robust, proven wireless system using stateoftheart 3GPP technology that is software
upgradable to LTE when the standard becomes viable for existing cellular networks.
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Applicant: XANADOO BROADBAND, LLC
Contact: HOWARD E VERLIN
(610) 9347083
hverlin@corp.xanadoo.com
Project Title: North Oklahoma
Description: Xanadoo Broadband, LLC (the â€œApplicantâ€ ) is proposing to build a fourth generation (4G)
WiMAX mobile broadband wireless network using licensed spectrum in the 2.5 GHz frequency
band to serve rural, unserved and communities without High Speed Access in northeastern
Oklahoma (the â€œProposed Projectâ€ ). Internet service will be provided in all or parts of the
following counties: Creek, Kay, Logan, Noble, Osage, Pawnee, and Payne. Broadband internet
services will be made available to 38,638 households and 4,284 businesses in the coverage area.
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(610) 9347083
Project Title: Northeast Texas
band to serve rural, unserved and communities without High Speed Access in northeastern Texas
and southeastern Oklahoma (the â€œProposed Projectâ€ ). Internet service will be provided in
all or parts of the following counties: Delta, Fannin, Lamar, and Red River, Texas and
Pushmataha, Choctaw, and Bryan, Oklahoma. Broadband internet services will be made available
to 23,222 households and 2,621 businesses in the coverage area.
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(610) 9347083
Project Title: Southeast Texas
band to serve rural, unserved and communities without High Speed Access in southeastern Texas
(the â€œProposed Projectâ€ ). Internet service will be provided in all or parts of the following
counties: DeWitt, Goliad, Karnes, and Victoria. Broadband internet services will be made available
to 33,143 households and 4,374 businesses in the coverage area.
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(610) 9347083
Project Title: Central Illinois
band to serve rural, unserved and communities without High Speed Access in eastern Illinois (the
â€œProposed Projectâ€ ). Internet service will be provided in all or parts of the following
counties: Champaign, De Witt, Douglas, Edgar, Ford, Iroquois, Livingston, McLean, Moultrie, Piatt,
and Vermillion. Broadband internet services will be made available to 73,016 households and
7,594 businesses in the coverage area.
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(610) 9347083
Project Title: Eastern Kansas
band to serve rural, unserved and communities without High Speed Access in Northeastern
Kansas (the â€œXanadoo WiMAX service in Kansasâ€ , or the â€œProposed Projectâ€ ).
Internet service will be provided in all or parts of the following counties: Douglas, Franklin, Geary,
Jackson, Jefferson, Lyon, Osage, Pottawatomie, Riley, Shawnee, Wabaunsee. Broadband
internet services will be made available to 96,111 households and 10,003 businesses in the
coverage area.
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South Carolina
Applicant: CHESNEE CABLE, INC
Contact: HAROLD W. ASKINS
(843) 7958988
Askinsh@msn.com
Project Title: Chesnee Cable, Inc.
Description: Using FTTH construction, the project is to extend Broadband Services into rural unserved and
under served areas of Spartanburg County, SC. The project will pass 533 households and
businesses in the new service area.
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Applicant: COMMUNITYCONNECT, INC.
Contact: MICHAEL LAFRANCE
(864) 9659000
mlafrance@ccrealm.com
Project Title: South Carolina Appalachian Community Connect WiMAX Initiative
Description: This project provides high speed broadband to the economically disadvantaged Appalachian area
of the rural Upstate area of South Carolina. It meets the objectives of The ACT, creates dozens of
jobs, and brings broadband to areas where none now exists, nor will any exist for the foreseeable
future, without this requested funding. This initiative creates an ubiquitous WiMAX broadband
network providing 5+ Mbps service to thousands of rural homes, businesses, and critical
community facilities. The majority of this region has no access at all to high speed broadband.
CommunityConnect will offer heavily discounted rates to essential community anchors and
institutions and free broadband to dozens of community centers.
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Applicant: HARTSVILLE, CITY OF
Contact: DAVE STOCKTON
(404) 6413000
dstockton01@comcast.net
Project Title: FTTP Broadband in Darlington County, South Carolina
Description: The City of Hartsville, South Carolina, is applying for ARRA funds to extend the availability,
affordability and speed of broadband within the towns of Hartsville (partial) and Lamar and a rural
corridor between the two towns. The proposed service area includes substantial unserved areas
that cannot receive broadband today. The proposed service area is 100% rural.
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Applicant: HOME TELEPHONE COMPANY, INC.
Contact: DENNY V THOMPSON
(843) 7619173
Denny.Thompson@hometelco.com
Project Title: Lowcountry Broadband Last Mile Project
Description: The purpose of this project is to extend broadband services to several areas of the Berkeley
County, Orangeburg County, and Dorchester County, South Carolina rural community that do not
have access to broadband services today. These voice, internet and video services will be
provided using fiber optic cable and Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) FibertotheHome
(FTTH) technology.
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Applicant: LYNCHES RIVER ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC.
Contact: JOHN HENDRIX
(843) 6753279
john.hendrix@lynchesriver.com
Project Title: LREC Broadband Network
Description: PROJECT DESCRIPTION Lynches River Electric Cooperative will provide an advance fibertothe
home (FTTH) broadband services via a high speed fiber optic network designed for speed up to
100 Mbps to end users in our rural proposed funded service area. Our last mile infrastructure
project will provide high speed broadband services that are urgently needed in rural communities
by directly connecting homes, businesses, public service agencies and key community institutions.
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Applicant: MIDCAROLINA ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Contact: LEE H AYERS
(803) 7496454
lee@mcecoop.com
Project Title: Western South Carolina Rural Economic Development Initiative
Description: MidCarolina Electric Cooperative (the Applicant) will contract with PBT Communications as a
business partner to provide high speed broadband Internet access and Smart Grid electrical
technologies, to bring economic development to the western rural unserved portion of its electric
service territory. The service area has very limited access to broadband with over 75% of the area
unserved at the present time. This also indicates that less the 50% of the area has no access to
high speed broadband Internet access.
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Applicant: ORANGEBURG, COUNTY OF
Contact: HAROLD M. YOUNG
(803) 5336160
hyoung@orangeburgcounty.org
Project Title: Southeastern Orangeburg County FTTP
Description: Orangeburg County is proposing to build a FTTP project to serve approximately 278 square miles
of the county. This FTTP Project would serve 3733 residences in Rowesville, Canaan,
Homestead, Bethel Forest, McAlhany, Pea Ridge, Lambrick, Sixty Six, and Cattle Creek
Communities of South Eastern Orangeburg County. The proposed FTTP Project would serve
3631 residential customers, 90 business customers, and 12 Critical Community Facilities for a
total of 3733 subscribers.
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South Dakota
Applicant: MIDSTATE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Contact: MARK BENTON
(605) 7786221
mbenton@midstatesd.net
Project Title: Chamberlain/Oacoma Fiber to the Home
Proposed Project Area: South Dakota
Description: Midstate Communications will be constructing fiber to the home access in the Chamberlain/
Oacoma, SD exchange. This platform will be capable of delivering 1 Gbps of bandwidth to each
home constructed to. These facilities will be leased to Midstate Telecom for the delivery of voice
services.
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Applicant: ROSEBUD SIOUX TRIBE
Contact: CHRISTIAN MORRISON
(605) 4411451
rosebudapplication@gmail.com
Project Title: Lasting Connections: Tribal & Rural America (Rosebud)
Proposed Project Area: Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming
Loan Request: $73,714,539.00
Description: A project to create the infrastructure to deliver high speed broadband access and, in turn, to build
lasting connections with Tribal and Rural America.
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Applicant: TRIOTEL COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Contact: BRYAN K ROTH
(605) 4252238
bkroth@triotel.net
Project Title: TrioTel FibertotheHome Broadband Deployment Project
Description: The TrioTel FibertotheHome Broadband Deployment Project will provide high speed Internet
service in the communities of Canova, Alexandria, Emery, Farmer, Salem, and Spencer, South
Dakota, and their surrounding rural areas via a fibertothehome network. This network will
provide service to 1,654 households and 986 businesses in the area.
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Applicant: VENTURE COMMUNICATIONS COOPERATIVE
Contact: RANDY HOUDEK
(605) 8522224
rhoudek@venture.coop
Project Title: Cresbard, Orient and Faulkton Exchanges
Description: Venture Communications Cooperativeâ€™s proposed FTTP project will provide broadband
services to households, businesses, and key community organizations that are currently
underserved. This project will provide needed broadband services and create the potential for
increased business growth, public safety services and quality of life for the residents in the
Cresbard, Faulkton and Orient exchanges within South Dakota.
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Tennessee
Applicant: AENEAS COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
Contact: JONATHAN V HARLAN
(731) 5549200
bipstimulus@aeneas.net
Project Title: West TN Broadband Deployment
Description: The purpose of this project is to deploy affordable high speed broadband in the to 10 to 100MB
range to an underserved rural West TN residential population, as well as up to 100MB Metro
Ethernet services to commercial and strategic organizations.
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Applicant: BLEDSOE TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE CORPORATION
Contact: GREGORY L ANDERSON
(423) 4472121
glanderson@bledsoe.net
Project Title: Nine Mile and College Station Broadband Upgrade
Description: This project will provide high speed broadband service to all end users in the Nine Mile and
College Station PFSAs of Bledsoe Telephone Cooperative. The project will shorten existing
copper cable in the two exchange areas to lengths which will allow end users to experience
broadband service at speeds of up to 15 Mbps and to enjoy the same economic, educational, and
social opportunities that broadband has afforded subscribers in neighboring communities.
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Applicant: CELLULAR PROPERTIES, INC.
Contact: EDWARD KING
(615) 7777799
edking@cellprop.com
Project Title: Eastern Illinois Broadband Deployment
Description: This project aims to deploy 3G UMTS fixed and mobile wireless broadband coverage at speeds of
at least 7.2 Mbps down and 3.6 Mbps up, in 11, primarily rural, eastern Illinois counties with limited
broadband penetration. The proposed funded service area covers 26,605 households and 7,827
businesses. Consideration was made to remove areas within these counties that were already
covered by current RUS borrowers or Round 1 last mile awardees. The applicant is already an
established wireless operator in Illinois, serving its customers since 1991, and will leverage its
existing spectrum, assets and experience building and maintaining wireless networks to complete
this project. The company will also upgrade its backbone to a fiberoptic network utilizing existing
providers in the area. This upgrade will assure reliability for customers and allow the company to
accommodate increasing data needs.
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Applicant: CHICKASAW ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE
Contact: LOYD M MUNCY
(901) 4653591
lmuncy@chickasaw.coop
Project Title: Chickasaw EMC Broadband
Proposed Project Area: Mississippi, Tennessee
Description: Chickasaw Electric Cooperative will provide an advance wireless system, supported by a fiber
optic backbone infrastructure system, to provide high speed wireless broadband services. The
wireless system is designed for high speed wireless connectivity for speeds up to 6 Mbps to end
users in our rural proposed funded service area. Our last mile infrastructure project will provide
high speed broadband services that are urgently needed in rural communities by directly
connecting homes, businesses, public service agencies and key community institutions
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Applicant: GIBSON ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION
Contact: CHARLES PHILLIPS
(731) 5621310
cphillips@gibsonemc.com
Project Title: NW Tennessee Broadband Initiative
Description: Gibson Electric Membership Corporation will provide an advanced wireless system, supported by
a fiber optic backbone infrastructure system, to provide high speed wireless broadband services.
The wireless system is designed for high speed wireless connectivity for speeds up to 7 Mbps
combined to end users in our rural proposed funded service area. Our last mile infrastructure
project will provide high speed broadband services that are urgently needed in rural communities
by directly connecting homes, businesses, public service agencies and key community institutions.
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Applicant: HIGHLAND TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE, INC.
Contact: ROGER GALLOWAY
(423) 6282750
roger@highlandtel.net
Project Title: Highland Telephone Cooperative FTTH Buildout
Loan Request: $49,866,871.00
Description: The Highland Telephone Cooperative FTTH BuildOut project will provide stateoftheart
communication services while enhancing broadband communication options to the current and
future citizens of Morgan and Scott Counties in Tennessee, and McCreary County, Kentucky. The
network will pass approximately 18,000 households and 1830 businesses, providing infrastructure
for affordable bandwidth and services, and will integrate economic development, employment,
education, public safety, public health, and other government use. Technology deployed will be a
FibertotheHome (FTTH) wireline fiberoptic cable network, configured in Passive Optical
Network (PON) architecture, able to support speeds in excess of 20 Gbps.
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Applicant: KEN TENN WIRELESS LLC
Contact: ERIC FRILLING
(731) 8854000
info@kentennwireless.com
Project Title: KenTenn Fiber Transport & FTTP
Description: KenTenn Wireless proposes to construct a standards based, open access, advanced broadban
network with a 10 Gbps protected fiber optic transport core to high bandwidth backhaul to wireless
broadband towers and distribute highspeed broadband voice, data, and video services to the
underserved residents, businesses, CCFs, and public safety entities within the 100% rural area of
Obion County TN. These services will be distributed via FTTP with a Wi Max service overlay
providing speeds between 3 Mbps to 100 Mbps, scalable to allow increased bandwidth to match
subscriber demand.
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Applicant: MERIWETHER LEWIS ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE
Contact: HAL WOMBLE
(931) 7293558
hal.womble@mlec.com
Project Title: MLEC 2010 Fiber Ring Project
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The Meriwether Lewis Electric Cooperative 2010 Fiber Ring Project is a middle mile fiber optic
transport backbone network to be installed in rural areas in the western, middle Tennessee region.
It is essential to Smart Grid initiatives and will provide a critical communications path to support
SCADA and AMI systems. It will also benefit area communities. Egress points along the main
transport route will be used to facilitate services to community anchor facilities as well as allow last
mile providers an opportunity to offer low cost brandband service to previously unserved areas.
Revitalized economic development, job creation and retention, improved connectivity for
educational, government, medical and industrial facilities are just some of the results this project
can stimulate.
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Applicant: MILLINGTON TELEPHONE COMPANY, INC.
Contact: HOLLY STARNES
(901) 4853532
stimulus@bigriver.net
Project Title: Mason/Stanton Broadband Expansion
Description: Millington Telephone Company, Inc. proposes to expand highspeed broadband service to rural
areas of western Tennessee in portions of Tipton, Haywood, and Fayette counties. A great
majority of the proposed funded service area is currently without access to highspeed broadband
and portions of the project area are completely â€œunservedâ€ . With funding from the BIP
program for this proposed project, Millington will be able to provide residences, businesses and
community anchor institutions highspeed broadband at speeds of 5 Mbps or greater using the
latest ADSL 2+ highspeed broadband technology. The project will pass 1,603 households and 69
businesses including critical community anchor instituions.
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Applicant: TWIN LAKES TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE CORPORATION
Contact: DEBBIE DIXON
(931) 2682151
ddixon@twlakes.coop
Project Title: Twin Lakes Telephone Cooperative Corp.: Fiber to the Home Broadband Project
Loan Request: $16,076,833.00
Description: Twin Lakes Tel Coop Corp (TLTCC) proposes a fibertothepremise project that will provide
advanced broadband services to rural exchanges of Byrdstown, Celina, Moss & Clarkrange, TN.
TLTCC will also collaborate with an ARRA recipient as detailed in this application. The proposed
FTTP project will allow for the highest quality & broadest range of telecom services available, as
well as the max bandwidth available today with FTTP technology to their subscribers. This project
will promote economic development in rural areas that have consistently higher than average
unemployment rates & areas that are in a persistent poverty county. The project will create/sustain
jobs directly by the construction & operation of the network, as well as indirectly through
equipment, raw materials & service industries. For many of those who will be impacted by this
project, it is a matter of economic survival.
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Applicant: VOLUNTEER ENERGY COOPERATIVE
Contact: SCOTT WOODLEE
(423) 3347033
swoodlee@vec.org
Project Title: Volunteer Fiber Backhaul Network South
Description: The Applicant, Volunteer Energy Cooperative, proposes to continue build out on a Middle Mile
fiber optic backhaul network in its southern service area that brings Broadband and Smart Grid
infrastructure to strategic locations in Southeast Tennessee with specific focus on over 37K
households and over 15K businesses. The project will bring the infrastructure to existing electrical
substation sites that were built over the years to extend electrical service to rural areas. Strategic
sites in the network will be provisioned with a solution to extend broadband over power line (BPL).
The fiber backhaul network will deliver an average nominal capacity of 10 Gbps with ability to
scale higher. The Applicant seeks an infrastructure grant to build out a 165 mile middlemile
broadband network passing over 400 critical community facilities and public safety entities.
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Texas
Applicant: ALENCO COMMUNICATIONS INC
Contact: RICKY L ALLEN
(817) 4470127
tx654@ncom.com
Project Title: Backhaul Middle Mile
Description: The proposed project is to provide customer requested affordable increased broadband services
to extreme rural areas of Texas. The existing communication facilities limit, and in some cases
prevent, provision of FCC mandated high speed broadband service. Present backhaul expenses
limit us to providing minimum required bandwidths and because of sparse population and long
rural loops, our customers will be unable to afford the rising cost of broadband in the future.
Increased speeds are needed to meet current and future customer demands as well as regulatory
standards. Building fiber facilities to adjacent, larger communities would reduce backhaul costs by
one half and provide a platform to increase our bandwidth 450%. The new facilities will enable
rural customers the advantage of connecting for online education, telecommuting and competing
for jobs otherwise unavailable.
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Applicant: ATSI COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Contact: ART SMITH
(210) 6147240 x1003
asmith@atsi.net
Project Title: South Texas Broadband Technology Progreso TX
Description: The South Texas Broadband Technology Project will build out a wireline network infrastructure.
This infrastructure will allow ATSI to provide last mile service of up to 6 mb to subscribers in the
underserved area of Progreso, Texas.
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Applicant: ATSI COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Contact: ART SMITH
(210) 6147240 x1003
asmith@atsi.net
Project Title: South Texas Broadband Technology Wireless Network
Description: The South Texas Broadband Technology Project will build out a wireless network infrastructure.
This infrastructure will allow ATSI to provide last mile services of 6 mb to end users in the
underserved South Texas communities of Devine, Lytle, Cristal City, Hondo and Uvalde.
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Applicant: AWESOME NET, INC.
Contact: JAMES K YOUNG
(361) 5762255
jky@awesomenet.net
Project Title: Awesome Net Rural Expansion Project
Description: The Awesome Net Rural Expansion Project is a chance to change the opportunities for the people
of 9 counties in South Texas. The proposed funded service area is almost all rural area with the
exception of Victoria, Texas. Victoria is in the middle of an Internet desert. Victoria has no tier 1
carriers and the surrounding area has few Internet options. This proposal would bring affordable
internet service from the closest tier 1 Internet carriers in Corpus Christi, Texas through wireless
towers that double as access points for last mile Internet service. This project is the most cost
effective way to get highspeed Internet service to the area. Awesome Net, Inc knows that the
economic advantages of affordable high speed Internet will rival the rural electrification of this area
in the 1930â€™s. Awesome Net, Inc. is proud to be part of the effort to improve our communities.
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Applicant: BLOSSOM TELEPHONE COMPANY
Contact: CLINT DORRIES
(903) 9825200
clint0352@blossomtel.net
Project Title: Red River Broadband Expansion Project
Description: The project will provide middle mile fiber and transmission facilities that will enhance broadband
services in Blossom, TX making it available to unserved/underserved customers in remote, rural
areas in NE Texas. BTC has obtained an RUS loan to provide FTTH in their exchange. The
proposed 26.5 mile route of middle mile fiber facilities will enable the FTTH facilities to deliver
significantly greater bandwidth at a reasonable cost. By leveraging the middle mile fiber with
wireless, last mile facilities, the project will enable BTC to provide, affordable broadband service to
households, businesses and critical community facilities currently lacking high speed broadband
service. Broadband service potential will exceed 5Mbps to all Blossom wireline customers upon
completion. Wireless customers will be offered packages up to 3 Mbps along the middle mile route
that is currently unserved.
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Applicant: BM SERVICE CORP
Contact: SHANE MITCHELL
(210) 5509134
info@getrsi.com
Project Title: Rock Solid Rural Expansion Project
Description: The Rock Solid Internet Expansion Project (RSIEP) will deliver much needed service to rural lands
that are currently underserved, using both tried and true technologies and the latest in WiMAX
equipment. In addition, this project will deliver voice services, a product that we already offer. We
believe that the combination of offerings will increase broadband adoption rates in the proposed
funded service area. We are often asked, "How can your company provide highspeed Internet
when larger companies can't?" The answer is: They can, but it would cost them more money to do
it than they are willing to spend to put highspeed Internet in your neighborhood or community. We
are doing it for you RIGHT NOW!
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Applicant: CENTRAL TEXAS CABLE PARTNERS, INC.
Contact: JEFFREY BRIAN SULLIVAN
(979) 7734700
jeffsullivan@reveillebroadband.com
Project Title: Lake Somerville Broadband Project
Description: The Lake Somerville Broadband lastmile project will allow Reveille Broadband to deploy
broadband infrastructure and make available affordable, highspeed internet, voice, and video
services to approximately 3,200 premises, including over 1,000 businesses and 38 community
anchor institutions, in 20 rural Texas communities in the Lake Somerville and Chappell Hill
proposed funded service areas. The existing cabled areas within the service areas will be
upgraded with the installation of optical nodes fed by fiber optic cable which will segment the
system into small, easy to maintain and service sections. The remaining areas in the proposed
service areas will be fibertothehome (FTTH). The project will provide needed broadband
services and create the potential of increased business growth, public safety services and quality
of life for the residents and businesses of rural central Texas
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Applicant: CITY OF JACKSONVILLE
Contact: MO RAISSI
(903) 5863510
mo.raissi@jacksonvilletx.org
Project Title: JacksonvilleColumbia Public Broadband Initiative
Description: Jacksonville â€“ Columbia Public Broadband Initiative seeks to provide high speed wireless
(WIMAX or better) mesh coverage to a footprint incorporating the Cities of Jacksonville, New
Summerfield, Gallatin Lake Jacksonville and the ETJs of these entities. It is anticipated that there
are over 45 anchor institutions, 400 businesses and 7,000 households within this service area.
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Applicant: CLEARNET LLC
Contact: KEVIN DREW BEIERSCHMITT
(806) 4383382
kevin@flatwireless.com
Project Title: Crane/McCarney
Description: Clearnet seeks to deploy a high speed and high quality wireless broadband data service offering
in Crane/McCarney and the surrounding Communities. Clearnet will provide wireless data service
to over 2,100 households and 120 businesses. Initial data speeds will average, using EVDO Rev
A 3G standard, peak broadband speeds in excess of 2.5mbs download and 700kbs upload and
over a three year time frame the data network will be upgraded to allow for speeds of 7.85Mbits/s
download and 3.85Mbits/s upload. The network will be fully operational by the end of 2010.
Clearnet will utilize an existing switch data core located in Amarillo, Texas that will allow for a very
rapid deployment of services.
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Broadband USA
(806) 4383382
Project Title: Dimmitt
in Dimmitt and the surrounding Communities. Clearnet will provide wireless data service to over
1,500 households and 150 businesses. Initial data speeds will average, using EVDO Rev A 3G
standard, peak broadband speeds in excess of 2.5mbs download and 700kbs upload and over a
three year time frame the data network will be upgraded to allow for speeds of 7.85Mbits/s
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Broadband USA
(806) 4383382
Project Title: Ft. Stockton
in Ft. Stockton and the surrounding Communities. Clearnet will provide wireless data service to
over 4,100 households and 250 businesses. Initial data speeds will average, using EVDO Rev A
3G standard, peak broadband speeds in excess of 2.5mbs download and 700kbs upload and over
a three year time frame the data network will be upgraded to allow for speeds of 7.85Mbits/s
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Broadband USA
(806) 4383382
Project Title: Kermit
in Kermit and the surrounding Communities. Clearnet will provide wireless data service to over
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Broadband USA
(806) 4383382
Project Title: Monahans
in Monahans and the surrounding Communities. Clearnet will provide wireless data service to over
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Broadband USA
(806) 4383382
Project Title: Olton
in Olton and the surrounding Communities. Clearnet will provide wireless data service to over 900
households and 700 businesses. Initial data speeds will average, using EVDO Rev A 3G
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Broadband USA
(806) 4383382
Project Title: Big Lake
in Big Lake and the surrounding Communities. Clearnet will provide wireless data service to over
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Broadband USA
(806) 4383382
Project Title: Ballinger/Tuscola
in Ballinger/Tuscola and the surrounding Communities. Clearnet will provide wireless data service
to over 4,800 households and 950 businesses. Initial data speeds will average, using EVDO Rev
A 3G standard, peak broadband speeds in excess of 2.5mbs download and 700kbs upload and
over a three year time frame the data network will be upgraded to allow for speeds of 7.85Mbits/s
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Broadband USA
(806) 4383382
Project Title: Bangs
in Bangs and the surrounding Communities. Clearnet will provide wireless data service to over
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Broadband USA
(806) 4383382
Project Title: Anson
in Anson and the surrounding Communities. Clearnet will provide wireless data service to over
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Broadband USA
(806) 4383382
Project Title: Pecos
in Pecos and the surrounding Communities. Clearnet will provide wireless data service to over
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Broadband USA
Applicant: COBALT BROADBAND CORPORATION
Contact: ERIK ELLER
(713) 5546888
erik.eller@cobaltbroadband.com
Project Title: Texas Expansion Project
Description: Cobalt proposes to deploy quality highspeed broadband delivery in nonserved and underserved
regions of the State of Texas.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: COMANCHE COUNTY TELEPHONE COMPANY, INC.
Contact: JIMMY DENNINGTON
(254) 8931000
jimmy.dennington@totelcom.net
Project Title: Totelcom Broadband Expansion Project
Description: This proposal includes upgrading the data network capability of Totelcom Communications, LLC
by installing 186 miles of fiber adjacent to the existing copper line network, and establishing
wireless service into two communities that are completely surrounded by its ILEC coverage area.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: DELL TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE, INC.
Contact: MARIA GUILLEN
(915) 9642352
tx569@ncom.com
Project Title: Dell Telephone Last Mile DSL project
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The project proposed by Dell Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (DTC) is to provide fiber optic
connectivity to a new cabinet and deploy a last mile access system intended to provide broadband
services to households in a PFSA located in the southeast area of New Mexico. The PFSA will
utilize a copper based ADSL2+ technology to provide broadband data and voice.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: ELECTRONIC CORPORATE PAGES INC
Contact: TUSHAR PATEL
(512) 2571077
tpatel@ecpi.com
Project Title: Central Texas Rural Wireless Expansion Project
Description: Electronic Corporate Pages, Inc. (ECPI), in business since 1995, proposes the Central Texas
Rural Wireless Expansion Project, serving a significant rural area that is sparsely populated and
neglected. This project will offer over 3 Mbps in aggregate (upstream and downstream) to an area
with an average household density of 10 per square mile. Using the latest in available backhaul
technology and proven network management systems, ECPI proposes to build a solid and reliable
network for Central Texas of a quality that only the stimulus funds will allow.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: ELLIS COUNTY TEXAS INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER, INC
Contact: STEVEN E GREENWALT
(972) 9239090
steven@ectisp.net
Project Title: ECTISP Network Expansion
Description: Expansion of ECTISP wireless network in Navarro, Hill, Ellis, and Limestone Counties, Texas.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: ERF WIRELESS, INC.
Contact: MIKE JONES
(281) 5382101 x326
erf2@acrsokc.com
Project Title: Central Louisiana WiMax Project
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Broadband USA
Contact: MIKE JONES
(281) 5382101 x326
erf2@acrsokc.com
Project Title: Eagle Ford Shale Broadband Project
Description: The agricultural area of Texas south of San Antonio has long lagged behind the rest of the state in
access to technology. This is a significant barrier to the development in the region. The recent
expansion in natural gas exploration in the region has created opportunity for change. The
community can only reach the outside world at high speed if they are fortunate enough to live in
close proximity to a telephone company end office, and even then access is not economical. This
project overlays existing telecommunications infrastructure with WiMax wireless access. Offering
broadband equivalent to or better than that available in more urban areas at speeds over 3Mbps.
In addition to providing broadband capabilities to homes & industry this project will provide heavily
subsidized access to community anchors such as hospitals, schools, government agencies &
emergency responders.
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Broadband USA
Contact: MIKE JONES
(281) 5382101 x326
erf2@acrsokc.com
Project Title: Texas Educational Broadband Network (TEBN) Alliance
Description: ERF Wireless has entered into an open partnership with the Bellville, TX and Hampstead, TX
Independent School Districts as anchor tenants. A WiMAX access network will be implemented for
this area west of Houston, Texas, covering some 600 square miles utilizing the Bellville ISD
WiMAX license. Nearcost wireless access will be provided to schools and other community
anchors in this coverage area, and otherwise unavailable broadband Internet access will be
provided at competitive rates to businesses and homes
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Broadband USA
Applicant: ESC DATA LLC
Contact: MICHAEL J LEDFORD
(214) 6329296
mledford@escdata.com
Project Title: Texas Hill Country Broadband
Loan Request: $19,652,443.00
Description: Our mission is to provide affordable, reliable broadband access to all citizens in the proposed
funded service areas in rural Central Texas. The Texas Hill Country Broadband project will build
the infrastructure using wireless WiMAX technology to bring the residents, businesses,
communities, municipalities and emergency first responders into the 21st century.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: FIVE AREA TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE INC
Contact: SANDY VANDEVENDER
(806) 2725533
sandyv@fivearea.com
Project Title: West Texas Broadband Infrastructure Development to Support Internet Adoption
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The West Texas Broadband Infrastructure Development to Support Internet Adoption project will
provide broadband service to the towns of Bledsoe, Bula, Clays Corner, Lazbuddie, Maple, and
Needmore in rural west Texas via a fibertothepremise network. The network will provide service
to 87 households and 408 businesses in Bailey, Cochran, and Parmer Counties.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: GRANBURY, CITY OF
Contact: ANTHONY WILLIAM TULL
(817) 5731114
tull@granbury.org
Project Title: City of Granbury Broadband Coalition Project
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The City of Granbury Broadband Coalition Project will build upon the successful broadband
initiative that the City started in 2005 and invested $1,151,153.68 to date. The City of Granbury
Broadband Coalition Project will cover an area of 46.25 square miles and offer affordable
broadband service to 11,209 residences and businesses and provide improved access for all
public safety agencies. The project will consist of 703 Wireless Mesh Network Radios, 60 miles of
Single Mode fiber, Infrastructure enhancements, and a Community Technology Center. The fiber
network will provide connectivity for 11 School District campuses, and 5 County Government
campuses, 8 Hospital/Medical Facilities, and 5 City campuses. Total cost is estimated to be $
7,241,408.50
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Broadband USA
Applicant: GRANGER TELECOM CORPORATION
Contact: JOE MENDOZA
(830) 5698088
jmendoza@grangertelecom.com
Project Title: South Texas Broadband Services
Loan Request: $17,985,030.00
Description: Broadband program to bring 5Mbps wireless Internet service to 19 counties in SouthWest Texas
where over 85% of the area does not have high speed Internet available. All of this areas are
listed as Persistent Poverty counties. The network will use a microwave backbone 586 miles long
and 54 WiFi Internet Access Points. The only external parties will be the Internet Access POP
connections in San Antonio and Corpus Christi.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: GTEK COMPUTERS AND WIRELESS LLC
Contact: RAINER GLEINIG
(361) 7771400
rainer@gtekcommunications.com
Project Title: Gtek Rural South Texas
Description: We propose the Gtek Rural South Texas project, serving thousands of square miles of Texas
coastline and reaching into six persistent poverty counties. We will utilize the latest in WiMAX
technology to deliver blazing fast aggregate speeds at a cost per premises passed that is
exceptional.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: HILL COUNTRY TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE, INC.
Contact: DELBERT WILSON
(830) 3675333
mdominguez@hctc.coop
Project Title: Project Rural Connect
Description: This project expands fiber optic facilities throughout the most rural of HCTC's 15 telephone
exchange areas. The deployed architecture will be a mix of fibertothepremise and fibertothe
node with dramatically shortened copper loops enabling downloads up to 20Mb on retained
copper up to gigabit Ethernet on fiber.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: IGN LPG ENTERPRISES L L C
Contact: ROGER NOUVEAUNE
(713) 5893694
sumo1@comcast.net
Project Title: MadisonLeonRobertson County Texas Broadband Project
Description: The MadisonLeonRobertson County Texas Braodband Project will provide broadband data,voice
and video internet access via WiMax to a three county area in rural Texas (12844 households,
2655 businesses,1575 sq. miles). It will create the network infrastructure, offer subscribers free
cusomter premises equipment, provide discounted services to critical community facilities and
offer computer training through local public organizations.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: MIDPLAINS RURAL TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE, INC.
Contact: BRENT KENNEDY
(806) 9953572
tx522@ncom.com
Project Title: Rural Texas Panhandle MidPlains
Description: MidPlains propose to provide fiber to the home to customers located in six rural areas in the
Texas Panhandle. This project will serve rural subscribers located in 227 square miles within the
counties of Armstrong, Briscoe, Randall, and Swisher in the central Texas Panhandle area. Many
of the premises in these areas are at such a distance from the central office that Internet access
speeds (using copper plant) are limited to subbroadband speeds and deemed unacceptable to
our customer base. Fiber to the premise (FTTP) service offerings will give the highest speed
capabilities for current and future applications, support telephone service, and allow an
introduction of video offerings in the future. This project will extend full fiber capabilities to the most
rural of establishments and give them the increased bandwidth comparable with any urban
establishment.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: MISSISSIPPI BROADBAND OPPORTUNITIES NETWORK
Contact: GERARD MICHAEL LOCKE
(972) 3291280
broadband.networks@bsicable.com
Project Title: Mississippi LLC Rural Southwest Hybrid Broadband Network
Loan Request: $13,755,884.00
Description: Mississippi LLC Rural Southwest Hybrid Broadband Network encompasses sections of six 100%
rural persistent poverty counties in the South Mississippi Delta. The network will make voice, data,
telemedicine and distance learning available to 59,305 persons, 1,361 critical community facilities
and 1,916 businesses. Of 21,133 households passed, 13,233 (62.6%) are Unserved. Mississippi
Broadband Opportunities, LLC (Applicant) estimates 109 new jobs will be created by this fiber/
wireless network that will be built and operated in a nondiscriminatory & fullyinclusive manner,
will bring medical care cost savings, support smart grid, bring less isolation, better well being,
provide access to information, help consumers earn income longer, provide for less drain on
Medicare & disability payments, workplace flexibility, jobs, public safety to an area in which 26%
live below the poverty level.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: NORTH TEXAS BROADBAND, L.L.C.
Contact: CURTIS L DAVIS
(940) 3652930
cdavis@northtxbroadband.com
Project Title: High Speed Broadband Service to Rural Johnson and Tarrant Counties, Texas.
Description: North Texas Broadband, LLC plans to provide a minimum of 8 Mbps High Speed Data Service,
State of the Art Television programming, and VOIP Telephone Service to the Rural areas of
Johnson and Tarrant Counties, Texas. New Fiber based FTTH services are planned into (17)
unserved subdivisions, 4,364 households and businesses will be passed in this area.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: OKLAHOMA TELEPHONE \& TELEGRAPH INC, THE
Contact: JIMMY DENNINGTON
(254) 8931000
jimmy.dennington@totelcom.net
Project Title: OT&T Broadband Expansion Project
Description: This proposal seeks to upgrade OT&T's broadband capability by improving the data transmission
capability of its ILEC to broadband speed across its entire coverage area. OT&T proposes the
development of a fiber data network throughout its ILEC area. This network will complement its
existing voice network, and it will provide broadband Internet access to currently underserved
communities within its ILEC coverage area while increasing the network's data traffic capabilities.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: PRIDE NETWORK, INC.
Contact: TONY LEE
(202) 3448065
tslee@venable.com
Project Title: PRIDE South
Loan Request: $24,322,310.00
Description: PRIDE Network, Inc. proposes to construct a FTTP telecommunications infrastructure, that will
bring advanced broadband services to rural communities in the Central Texas region. The network
will initially offer data speeds of 20 to 100Mbps with the ability to increase to even higher speeds
to ensure the greatest broadband benefits possible.
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Broadband USA
Contact: TONY LEE
(202) 3448065
tslee@venable.com
Project Title: North Shore Project
Loan Request: $18,461,417.00
Description: PRIDE Network, Inc. proposes to construct a FTTP telecommunications infrastructure, with a
Wireless serviceextension overlay, that will bring advanced broadband services to rural
communities in the St. Helena, Washington, and Tangipahoa Parishes, Louisiana. The network
will initially offer data speeds of 20 to 100 Mbps with the ability to increase to even higher speeds
to ensure the greatest broadband benefits possible.
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Broadband USA
Contact: TONY LEE
(202) 3448065
tslee@venable.com
Project Title: PRIDE Central
Loan Request: $29,088,976.00
Description: PRIDE Network, Inc. proposes to construct a FTTP telecommunications infrastructure, with a
wireless service extension overlay, that will bring advanced broadband services to rural
communities in the Texas South Plains region. The network will initially offer data speeds of 20 to
100Mbps with the ability to increase to even higher speeds to ensure the greatest broadband
benefits possible.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: PVCO.NET LLC
Contact: LOWELL EDWARD PEAVY
(512) 9055955
corky@pvco.net
Project Title: Red Rock and McDade Expansion
Description: PVCo.net LLC provides broadband service in rural areas about 30 miles East of Austin TX using
fixed wireless technology. The proposed project will pass 2107 households.
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Broadband USA
(512) 9055955
corky@pvco.net
Project Title: North Giddings Expansion
Description: This project will provide broadband service to the North Giddings area using fixed wireless
technology. The proposed project will pass 1326 premises.
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Broadband USA
(512) 9055955
corky@pvco.net
Project Title: South Giddings Expansion
Description: This project will provide broadband service to the North Giddings area using fixed wireless
technology. The proposed project will pass 980 premises.
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Broadband USA
(512) 9055955
corky@pvco.net
Project Title: Deep Rural Expansion Stellar
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: PVCo.net LLC provides broadband service in rural areas about 40 miles East of Austin TX using
fixed wireless technology. The proposed project will pass 719 households.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: RUSK, CITY OF
Contact: MICHAEL MURRAY
(903) 6832213
Tom@grtraylor.com
Project Title: Rusk Columbia Public Broadband Initiative
Description: Rusk â€“ Columbia Public Broadband Initiative seeks to provide high speed wireless (WIMAX or
better) mesh coverage to a footprint incorporating part of Cherokee, Anderson, Rusk, Houston,
Nacogdoches, Smith and Angelina Counties in East Texas. It is anticipated that there are over 85
anchor institutions, 700 businesses and 12,000 households within this service area.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: TECHCORE CONSULTANTS II, INC.
Contact: THOMAS KURIEN
(817) 6859588
kurien@almega.com
Project Title: Techcore Consultants II, WiMax Project (Oregon)
Description: This project proposes to blanket over 300 square miles of rural and economically distressed
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Broadband USA
(817) 6859588
kurien@almega.com
Project Title: Techcore Consultants II, WiMax Project (Virginia)
Description: This project proposes to blanket nearly 500 square miles of rural and economically distressed
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Broadband USA
(817) 6859588
kurien@almega.com
Project Title: Techcore Consultants II, WiMax Project (South Carolina)
Description: This project proposes to blanket nearly 1,300 square miles of rural and economically distressed
communities with the latest in WiMAX broadband service which is nearly 90% unserved. The
project will offer a Broadband Lifeline Program. The Program will enable low income families who
qualify for Lifeline voice plans to receive discounted broadband services. This project will create
hundreds of long term job opportunities and will offer discounted service to all critical community
facilities.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: TELECOM CABLE LLC
Contact: ANTHONY LUNA
(888) 2404589
tony.luna@telecomcable.net
Project Title: Last Mile Remote/Rural Telecom Cable
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Provide the rural areas of Corrigan Texas, and Weston Lakes Texas which meet the rural area
designation, with broadband service that meets or exceeds the definitions of broadband service
provided by RUS. Telecom Cable will increase its bandwidth capacity and create a twoway
environement which will support the economic development as required by the recovery Act. A
combination of inhouse and contract labor will be utilized to engineer and construct the Last Mile.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: TEXAS WIRELESS INTERNET
Contact: BRIAN DULEY
(512) 2954105
bduley@txwinet.com
Project Title: Texas Wireless Rural Expansion Project
Description: Texas Wireless Internet proposes to increase broadband availability in rural and underserved
areas of central Texas, meeting the demand for faster internet speeds using the latest wireless
broadband technology made available in 2010. This Last Mile project leverages wireless
broadband's ability to cover more square miles at a lower cost than other technologies.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: TIERONE CONVERGED NETWORKS, INC.
Contact: KIM MARSHALL
(214) 2178626 x2031
info@tocn.com
Project Title: TOCN North Texas
Loan Request: $18,229,010.00
Description: TierOne is applying to build a licensed WiMAX last mile fixed wireless network (TOCN North
Texas project) to provide high speed access to unserved and underserved communities in 12
counties of Texas. The Project will make available speeds up to 6.5 Mbps combined speeds bi
directional, with the proposed network designed to allow continued expansions of bandwidth to
meet market demands and evolving definitions of high speed access. The Project is expected to
include approximately 4,152 square miles of additional coverage and will be built contiguous to
TierOneâ€™s existing rural network. TierOne intends to extend its existing network and leverage
its existing multimillion dollar investment in network infrastructure to provide broadband services
offered at a competitive price to households, businesses, and key community organizations that
are currently underserved.
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Broadband USA
(214) 2178626 x2031
info@tocn.com
Project Title: TOCN Oklahoma
Loan Request: $12,710,795.00
Description: TierOne is applying to build a licensed last mile fixed wireless network (project TOCN Oklahoma)
to provide high speed access to unserved and underserved communities in 10 counties of
southern Oklahoma, 2 counties and 18 communities are classified as Persistent Poverty Counties.
The Project will make available speeds up to 6.5 Mbps combined speeds bidirectional, with the
proposed network designed to allow continued expansions of bandwidth to meet market demands.
The Project includes approximately 3,473 square miles of additional coverage and will be built
contiguous to TierOneâ€™s existing rural network. TierOne intends to extend its existing network
and leverage its existing multimillion dollar investment in network infrastructure to provide
broadband services offered at a competitive price to households, businesses, and key community
organizations that are currently underserved.
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Broadband USA
(214) 2178626 x2031
info@tocn.com
Project Title: TOCN Golden Path
Loan Request: $16,357,569.00
Description: TierOne is applying to build a licensed last mile fixed wireless network (project Golden Path) to
provide high speed access to unserved and underserved communities in 68 rural communities of
North Texas. The Project will make available speeds up to 6.5 Mbps combined speeds bi
directional, with the proposed network designed to allow continued expansions of bandwidth to
meet market demands. The Project includes approximately 5,119 square miles of additional
coverage and will be built contiguous to TierOneâ€™s existing rural network. TierOne intends to
extend its existing network and leverage its existing multimillion dollar investment in network
infrastructure to provide broadband services offered at a competitive price to households,
businesses, and key community organizations that are currently underserved.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: WAVEMAX CORPORATION
Contact: EDUARDO VELASCO
(512) 9028038
evelasco@wavemaxcorp.com
Project Title: Briggs TX project
Description: The WaveMax project will provide public, reliable, fast and affordable wireless broadband Internet
access to the end users in Briggs TX. The target community listed herein was selected based on
need and are sure to benefit both economically and in terms of quality of life through the provision
of highspeed internet.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: WAVEMAX CORPORATION
Contact: EDUARDO VELASCO
(512) 9028038
evelasco@wavemaxcorp.com
Project Title: Central TX project
Description: The WaveMax project will provide public, reliable, fast and affordable wireless broadband Internet
access to the end users in Central TX. The target communities were selected based on need and
are sure to benefit both economically and in terms of quality of life through the provision of high
capacity bandwidth.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: XIT RURAL TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE, INC.
Contact: DARRELL DENNIS
(806) 3843311
TX005@ncom.com
Project Title: XIT Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. Round 2 Rural FTTP Application
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: XIT Rural Telephone Cooperativeâ€™s application proposes to deploy FibertothePremise to
multiple PFSAs within their existing service area in the Northwest Texas panhandle. XIT will build
fiber to homes and businesses in these areas and will utilize standards based GPON technology
to connect these customers to XITâ€™s existing broadband and voice network.
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Broadband USA
US Virgin Islands
Applicant: BROADBANDVI
Contact: MICHAEL MELUSKEY
(340) 2779336
mike@broadband.vi
Project Title: US Virgin Islands middlemile capacity upgrade
Proposed Project Area: U.S. Virgin Islands
Description: Upgrade of middlemile backhaul wireless Internet network throughout the US Virgin Islands. This
will allow Broadband VI to provide higher speeds, more reliability, redundancy and capacity to
support additional customers.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: ORBITEL LLC
Contact: DEBRA PATALKIS
(202) 2623000
dpatalkis@schiffhardin.com
Project Title: Orbitel Project for the underserved people of the U.S. Virgin Islands
Proposed Project Area: US Virgin Islands
Loan Request: $72,135,210.00
Description: Orbitel, LLC proposes to build a stateoftheart FiberToThePremise infrastructure to 40,648
homes and 5,536 businesses in the Virgin Islands and provide all with Triple Play VoIP, high
speed Internet & HD CATV. Orbitel will make Broadband available to all community anchor, public
safety, and critical community facilities including 104 schools, 10 libraries, 20 medical/healthcare
providers, 42 public safety entities, 5 higher education institutions, 35 community support
organizations & 138 government facilities. The network will offer, open access, standards based,
Last Mile Broadband Services at up to 100 Mbps of bandwidth via a 10Gbps diversely routed core
fiber network to be constructed on each island. Broadband voice, data and video over GPON and
Active Ethernet distribution, via FTTP, will be available to all residential, business and CCF
establishments.
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Broadband USA
Utah
Applicant: CENTRAL UTAH TELEPHONE, INC.
Contact: STEVEN J. CLARK
(435) 4270561
s.clark@cut.net
Project Title: Basin Broadband Project
Proposed Project Area: Utah
Description: Project comprises installation of 71.1+/ miles of middlemile underground fiber optic cable in Juab
and Millard counties, UT., 60.14+/ miles of Hybred Fiber/Coax lastmile cable and necessary
electronics and operating systems in the the communities of Lynndyl, Delta, Hinckley, Holden and
Fillmore, UT. and upgrades of system plant capacities and electronics to allow bandwidth offerings
of up to 100 Mbs. The project will serve (pass)an aggregate total of 2,241 rural households,188
rural businesses and 38 rural community critical entities.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: DIXIE TECHNOLOGY FUNDING AGENCY
Contact: JAMES L DRIESSEN
(801) 3608044
jd@vibme.com
Project Title: Ready Community Mobile "Hot Cloud"
Description: Consumer demand for bandwidth has far exceeded industry ability to provide it. Estimates land
somewhere in the realm of 7000 per cent. Spectrum shortage and smart phones are stretching
service providers to the limit. Providers have wanted to market content with their network to
increase Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) but have traditionally seen unlocked phones with
dual band capabilities as a threat to revenue. This project theme will contend that an industry
education movement needs to be underway where the fiber, cable, copper, and wireless industries
are persuaded that the adaptive DNS and multiple internet gateway routing of the â€œhot cloudâ
€ 3GWiFi mesh block convergent networks, with its open competition model, for example, would
not lower ARPUs in any of those industries, but actually increase them because of the adaptive
and carrier agnostic properties.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: SOUTH CENTRAL UTAH TELEPHONE ASSOCIATION, INC.
Contact: ALAN TORGERSEN
(435) 8264211
alant@socen.com
Project Title: Grand Staircase Highspeed Access Broadband Initiative
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: SCUTA seeks to leverage its existing infrastructure and expertise to expand the reach and
adoption of its high speed access and associated voice, video and data services to the rural,
remote communities, State and National Parks and Monuments in south central Utah. The project
will deploy both fibertothehome and highspeed copper architecture that will allow end users to
experience broadband service at speeds in excess of 20 Mbps and to enjoy the same economic,
educational, and social opportunities that broadband has afforded subscribers in neighboring
communities.
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Broadband USA
Vermont
Applicant: ECF, LLC
Contact: LESLIE NULTY
(802) 8994582
lenulty84@gmail.com
Project Title: East Central Vermont Community Fiber Network
Proposed Project Area: Vermont
Loan Request: $37,203,928.00
Description: An initiative of 21 towns in a completely rural and highly unserved and underserved area of
Vermont to build and operate a universal, openaccess fibertothepremise network and provide a
wide range of commercial and public services to all households, businesses, government and
other institutions in the area. This application is targeted at the 18 most underserved towns. Build
out of more fully service towns in the service area will be financed privately.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: VTEL WIRELESS, INC.
Contact: MICHEL GUITE
(802) 8857000
mguite@vermontel.com
Project Title: Wireless Open World (WOW) by VTel Wireless, Inc.
Proposed Project Area: New Hampshire, New York, Vermont
Loan Request: $35,166,081.00
Description: Wireless Open World (WOW) by VTel Wireless, Inc., commits to bring TriBand 4G LTE wireless
broadband to virtually every unserved anchor institution, unserved home, and unserved business
throughout Vermont, and parts of NY and NH near VT. We commit, at our cost, to use a model
that proved effective in rural America during the Great Depression, called Rural Radio Farm
Forum. We will send out teams of Rural Broadband Farm Forum field workers, to organize several
thousand neighbortoneighbor smallgroup meetings to discuss and show how Broadband can
help find jobs, improve schools, start businesses, access federal and state assistance, and
enhance rural life. We also propose to extend our use of GigE over active fiber to some regions
and institutions.
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Applicant: WAITSFIELDFAYSTON TELEPHONE CO. , INC.
Contact: ROGER NISHI
(802) 4968336
rnishi@wcvt.com
Project Title: Rural Vermont Broadband Advancement Project
Proposed Project Area: Vermont
Description: WaitsfieldFayston Telephone, Co., Inc., d/b/a/ Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom's
(WCVT) Rural Broadband Advancement Project is focused on delivering highspeed Internet
access to our rural Vermont service areas through the deployment of advanced fibertothehome
technology. This critical infrastructure project will bring affordable, reliable Internet access at
speeds from 5100 Mbps to 740 premises in 8 PFSAâ€™s using a scalable fibertothehome
(FTTH) Passive Optical Network (PON) architecture.
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Virginia
Applicant: BUGGS ISLAND TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE
Contact: MICKEY L SIMS
(434) 6362274
msims@bit.coop
Project Title: BIT Wireless Initiative
Proposed Project Area: North Carolina, Virginia
Description: This project is designed to deliver residential and business wireless broadband internet access to
fifteen counties in Southside Virginia. The project will provide 100 percent coverage of the serving
area and offer a minimum of 1.5 Mbps of service. The service area is primarily unserved and
underserved which is clearly shown on the map created by the Virginia Broadband Mapping
Initiative.
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Applicant: CABLE PLUS INC
Contact: DAVID EATON
(276) 8734828
deaton@cableplus.tv
Project Title: Cable Plus Connects the Appalachian Coalfields of Southwest Virginia
Description: Cable Plus, Inc. will deploy last mile broadband infrastructure to unserved remote rural areas in
the heart of the Central Appalachian Mountains to serve the Breaks, Greenbrier, and Haysi
communities in Dickenson County, Virginia.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: DIGITALBRIDGE COMMUNICATIONS CORP.
Contact: WILLIAM WALLACE
(703) 7236272
william.wallace@dbcmail.com
Project Title: Round 2: TNAnderson Last Mile
Description: DigitalBridge Communications Corp. will bring affordable, fourthgeneration broadband services to
those portions of Anderson County that lack highspeed access. As a proven WiMAX operator,
DBC brings the track record needed to deploy promptly, generate jobs, and ensure financial
sustainability at a very low costperhouseholdcovered.
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Broadband USA
(703) 7236272
Project Title: Round 2: SCDarlington Last Mile
those portions of Darlington County that lack highspeed access. As a proven WiMAX operator,
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Broadband USA
(703) 7236272
Project Title: Round 2: SCPickens Last Mile
those portions of Pickens County that lack highspeed access. As a proven WiMAX operator, DBC
brings the track record needed to deploy promptly, generate jobs, and ensure financial
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Broadband USA
(703) 7236272
Project Title: Round 2: SCOrangeburg Last Mile
those portions of Orangeburg County that lack highspeed access. As a proven WiMAX operator,
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Broadband USA
(703) 7236272
Project Title: Round 2: SCOconee Last Mile
those portions of Oconee County that lack highspeed access. As a proven WiMAX operator, DBC
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Broadband USA
(703) 7236272
Project Title: Round 2: SCGreenwood Last Mile
those portions of Greenwood County that lack highspeed access. As a proven WiMAX operator,
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Broadband USA
(703) 7236272
Project Title: Round 2: SCFairfield Last Mile
those portions of Fairfield County that lack highspeed access. As a proven WiMAX operator, DBC
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Broadband USA
(703) 7236272
Project Title: Round 2: SCChester Last Mile
those portions of Chester County that lack highspeed access. As a proven WiMAX operator, DBC
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Broadband USA
(703) 7236272
Project Title: Round 2: MSWashington Last Mile
those portions of Washington County that lack highspeed access. As a proven WiMAX operator,
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Broadband USA
(703) 7236272
Project Title: Round 2: MSYazoo Last Mile
those portions of Yazoo County that lack highspeed access. As a proven WiMAX operator, DBC
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Broadband USA
(703) 7236272
Project Title: Round 2: MSSunflower Last Mile
those portions of Sunflower County that lack highspeed access. As a proven WiMAX operator,
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Broadband USA
(703) 7236272
Project Title: Round 2: MSHumphreys Last Mile
those portions of Humphreys County that lack highspeed access. As a proven WiMAX operator,
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Broadband USA
(703) 7236272
Project Title: Round 2: TNWilliamson Last Mile
those portions of Williamson County that lack highspeed access. As a proven WiMAX operator,
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Broadband USA
(703) 7236272
Project Title: Round 2: TNSevier Last Mile
those portions of Sevier County that lack highspeed access. As a proven WiMAX operator, DBC
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Broadband USA
(703) 7236272
Project Title: Round 2: TNRobertson Last Mile
those portions of Robertson County that lack highspeed access. As a proven WiMAX operator,
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Broadband USA
(703) 7236272
Project Title: Round 2: TNMaury Last Mile
those portions of Maury County that lack highspeed access. As a proven WiMAX operator, DBC
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Broadband USA
(703) 7236272
Project Title: Round 2: VABedford Last Mile
those portions of Bedford County that lack highspeed access. As a proven WiMAX operator, DBC
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Broadband USA
(703) 7236272
Project Title: Round 2: VAAmherst Last Mile
those portions of Amherst County that lack highspeed access. As a proven WiMAX operator,
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Broadband USA
(703) 7236272
Project Title: Round 2: VACampbell Last Mile
those portions of Campbell County that lack highspeed access. As a proven WiMAX operator,
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Broadband USA
(703) 7236272
Project Title: Round 2: VACharlotte Last Mile
those portions of Charlotte County that lack highspeed access. As a proven WiMAX operator,
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Broadband USA
(703) 7236272
Project Title: Round 2: VAThomas Jefferson Prj. Last Mile
those portions of Thomas Jefferson Prj. County that lack highspeed access. As a proven WiMAX
operator, DBC brings the track record needed to deploy promptly, generate jobs, and ensure
financial sustainability at a very low costperhouseholdcovered.
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Broadband USA
(703) 7236272
Project Title: Round 2: MSCoahoma Last Mile
those portions of Coahoma County that lack highspeed access. As a proven WiMAX operator,
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Broadband USA
(703) 7236272
Project Title: Round 2: VARockingham Last Mile
those portions of Rockingham County that lack highspeed access. As a proven WiMAX operator,
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Broadband USA
(703) 7236272
Project Title: Round 2: TNSullivan Last Mile
Proposed Project Area: Tennessee, Virginia
those portions of Sullivan County that lack highspeed access. As a proven WiMAX operator, DBC
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Broadband USA
(703) 7236272
Project Title: Round 2: TNHamblen Last Mile
those portions of Hamblen County that lack highspeed access. As a proven WiMAX operator,
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Broadband USA
(703) 7236272
Project Title: Round 2: TNJefferson Last Mile
those portions of Jefferson County that lack highspeed access. As a proven WiMAX operator,
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Broadband USA
(703) 7236272
Project Title: Round 2: TNGreene Last Mile
those portions of Greene County that lack highspeed access. As a proven WiMAX operator, DBC
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Broadband USA
(703) 7236272
Project Title: Round 2: TNBradley Last Mile
those portions of Bradley County that lack highspeed access. As a proven WiMAX operator, DBC
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Broadband USA
(703) 7236272
Project Title: Round 2: VARockbridge Last Mile
those portions of Rockbridge County that lack highspeed access. As a proven WiMAX operator,
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Broadband USA
(703) 7236272
Project Title: Round 2: INFranklin Last Mile
those portions of Franklin County that lack highspeed access. As a proven WiMAX operator, DBC
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Broadband USA
(703) 7236272
Project Title: Round 2: MSPanola Last Mile
those portions of Panola County that lack highspeed access. As a proven WiMAX operator, DBC
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Broadband USA
Applicant: LENOWISCO PLANNING DISTRICT COMMISSION
Contact: GLEN SKINNER
(276) 4312206
stimulusgrants@lenowisco.org
Project Title: ADVANCE Virginia
Proposed Project Area: Kentucky, Virginia
Description: The ADVANCE Project will provide ultrahigh speed fiberoptic broadband to one of the poorest
and undereducated regions of the nation with an experienced team that has worked together in
this field successfully for nearly 10 years, including four RUS Community Connect grants. Our
PFSA is underserved, contains one persistent poverty county, and is located in the Appalachians
of Southwest Virginia. The project will pass 25,241 premises. It places emphasis on partnering
with three funded Middle Mile projects, and has synergistic operations planned with two other Last
Mile applications. This will create a Digital Nexus of connectivity that will break the cycle of
persistent poverty. It will bring global connectivity that is needed to support lifelong education of
the labor force, and drive economic development with techniques that have only become possible
in the Digital Age.
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Applicant: NATIONAL RURAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS COOPERATIVE
Contact: CHRIS MARTIN
(703) 7877288
cmartin@nrtc.coop
Project Title: St. Croix E.C. St. Croix County
Description: The National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) will bring affordable and reliable
wireless broadband services to those rural portions of St. Croix County that lack highspeed
broadband access. Using WiMAX technology, NRTCâ€™s proposed network will pass 5,937
households, 1,637 businesses and 43 critical community facilities/public safety entities and will
create/save 7 jobs in St. Croix County. With over 20 years of experience in bringing innovative
telecommunications products and services to rural America, NRTC has the track record to deploy
promptly, ensure financial sustainability of the project, and facilitate rural economic development.
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(703) 7877288
cmartin@nrtc.coop
Project Title: Claiborne E.C. Claiborne Parish
wireless broadband services to those rural portions of Claiborne County that lack highspeed
broadband access. Using WiMAX technology, NRTCâ€™s proposed network will pass 1782
households, 229 businesses and 25 critical community facilities/public safety entities and will
create/save 3 jobs in Claiborne County. With over 20 years of experience in bringing innovative
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(703) 7877288
cmartin@nrtc.coop
Project Title: Claiborne E.C. Union Parish
wireless broadband services to those rural portions of Union Parish that lack highspeed
create/save 2 jobs in Union Parish. With over 20 years of experience in bringing innovative
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(703) 7877288
cmartin@nrtc.coop
Project Title: St. Croix E.C. Pierce County
wireless broadband services to those rural portions of Pierce County that lack highspeed
households, 170 businesses and 9 critical community facilities/public safety entities and will create/
save 2 jobs in Pierce County. With over 20 years of experience in bringing innovative
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Broadband USA
(703) 7877288
cmartin@nrtc.coop
Project Title: BGEnergy Madison County
wireless broadband services to those rural portions of Madison County that lack highspeed
create/save 1 jobs in Madison County. With over 20 years of experience in bringing innovative
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Broadband USA
(703) 7877288
cmartin@nrtc.coop
Project Title: BGEnergy Grant County
wireless broadband services to those rural portions of Grant County that lack highspeed
save 8 jobs in Grant County. With over 20 years of experience in bringing innovative
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Broadband USA
(703) 7877288
cmartin@nrtc.coop
Project Title: Henry County REMC Rush County
wireless broadband services to those rural portions of Rush County that lack highspeed
create/save 4 jobs in Rush County. With over 20 years of experience in bringing innovative
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Broadband USA
(703) 7877288
cmartin@nrtc.coop
Project Title: Henry County REMC Madison County
households, 725businesses and 55 critical community facilities/public safety entities and will
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Broadband USA
(703) 7877288
cmartin@nrtc.coop
Project Title: Norris E.C. Jasper County
wireless broadband services to those rural portions of Jasper County that lack highspeed
create/save 2 jobs in Jasper County. With over 20 years of experience in bringing innovative
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Broadband USA
(703) 7877288
cmartin@nrtc.coop
Project Title: Norris E.C. Lawrence County
wireless broadband services to those rural portions of Lawrence County that lack highspeed
create/save 4 jobs in Lawrence County. With over 20 years of experience in bringing innovative
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Broadband USA
(703) 7877288
cmartin@nrtc.coop
Project Title: Norris E.C. Richland County
wireless broadband services to those rural portions of Richland County that lack highspeed
create/save 4 jobs in Richland County. With over 20 years of experience in bringing innovative
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Broadband USA
(703) 7877288
cmartin@nrtc.coop
Project Title: Got Sky (Plumas) Plumas County
wireless broadband services to those rural portions of Plumas County that lack highspeed
create/save 5 jobs in Plumas County. With over 20 years of experience in bringing innovative
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Broadband USA
(703) 7877288
cmartin@nrtc.coop
Project Title: Got Sky (Plumas) Lassen County
wireless broadband services to those rural portions of Lassen County that lack highspeed
save 2 jobs in Lassen County. With over 20 years of experience in bringing innovative
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(703) 7877288
cmartin@nrtc.coop
Project Title: Mille Lacs E.C. Mille Lacs County
wireless broadband services to those rural portions of Mille Lacs County that lack highspeed
create/save 4 jobs in Mille Lacs County. With over 20 years of experience in bringing innovative
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(703) 7877288
cmartin@nrtc.coop
Project Title: Mille Lacs E.C. Crow Wing County
wireless broadband services to those rural portions of Crow Wing County that lack highspeed
create/save 14 jobs in Crow Wing County. With over 20 years of experience in bringing innovative
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Broadband USA
(703) 7877288
cmartin@nrtc.coop
Project Title: Claiborne E.C. Webster Parish
wireless broadband services to those rural portions of Webster County that lack highspeed
create/save 11 jobs in Webster County. With over 20 years of experience in bringing innovative
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Broadband USA
(703) 7877288
cmartin@nrtc.coop
Project Title: McLeod C.P.A. McLeod County
wireless broadband services to those rural portions of McLeod County that lack highspeed
create/save 5 jobs in McLeod County. With over 20 years of experience in bringing innovative
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Broadband USA
(703) 7877288
cmartin@nrtc.coop
Project Title: Southwest Tennessee EMC Madison County
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(703) 7877288
cmartin@nrtc.coop
Project Title: Mille Lacs E.C. Aitken County
wireless broadband services to those rural portions of Aitkin County that lack highspeed
save 2 jobs in Aitken County. With over 20 years of experience in bringing innovative
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Broadband USA
(703) 7877288
cmartin@nrtc.coop
Project Title: Fort Loudoun E.C. Blount County
wireless broadband services to those rural portions of Blount County that lack highspeed
create/save 17 jobs in Blount County. With over 20 years of experience in bringing innovative
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(703) 7877288
cmartin@nrtc.coop
Project Title: DeKalb T.C. Wilson County
wireless broadband services to those rural portions of Wilson County that lack highspeed
create/save 22 jobs in Wilson County. With over 20 years of experience in bringing innovative
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Broadband USA
(703) 7877288
cmartin@nrtc.coop
Project Title: Fort Loudoun E.C. Loudon County
wireless broadband services to those rural portions of Loudon County that lack highspeed
create/save 16 jobs in Loudon County. With over 20 years of experience in bringing innovative
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(703) 7877288
cmartin@nrtc.coop
Project Title: Lake Region E.C. Cherokee County
wireless broadband services to those rural portions of Cherokee County that lack highspeed
create/save 15 jobs in Cherokee County. With over 20 years of experience in bringing innovative
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Broadband USA
(703) 7877288
cmartin@nrtc.coop
Project Title: DeKalb T.C. Rutherford County
wireless broadband services to those rural portions of Rutherford County that lack highspeed
create/save 22 jobs in Rutherford County. With over 20 years of experience in bringing innovative
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Broadband USA
(703) 7877288
cmartin@nrtc.coop
Project Title: Lake Region E.C. Wagoner County
wireless broadband services to those rural portions of Wagoner County that lack highspeed
create/save 16 jobs in Wagoner County. With over 20 years of experience in bringing innovative
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Broadband USA
(703) 7877288
cmartin@nrtc.coop
Project Title: Lake Region E.C. Mayes County
wireless broadband services to those rural portions of Mayes County that lack highspeed
create/save 13 jobs in Mayes County. With over 20 years of experience in bringing innovative
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(703) 7877288
cmartin@nrtc.coop
Project Title: McLeod C.P.A. Sibley County
wireless broadband services to those rural portions of Sibley County that lack highspeed
create/save 3 jobs in Sibley County. With over 20 years of experience in bringing innovative
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(703) 7877288
cmartin@nrtc.coop
Project Title: McLeod C.P.A. Renville County
wireless broadband services to those rural portions of Renville County that lack highspeed
create/save 2 jobs in Renville County. With over 20 years of experience in bringing innovative
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(703) 7877288
cmartin@nrtc.coop
Project Title: TSC Auglaize County
wireless broadband services to those rural portions of Auglaize County that lack highspeed
create/save 3 jobs in Auglaize County. With over 20 years of experience in bringing innovative
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Broadband USA
(703) 7877288
cmartin@nrtc.coop
Project Title: Lynches River E.C. â€“ Lancaster County
Proposed Project Area: North Carolina, South Carolina
wireless broadband services to those rural portions of Lancaster County that lack highspeed
create/save 23 jobs in Lancaster County. With over 20 years of experience in bringing innovative
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Broadband USA
Applicant: NELSON CABLE, INC.
Contact: JOSEPH LEE MCCLELLAN
(434) 2634836 x13
joeleemc@aol.com
Project Title: Rural Broadband Today
Description: The project involves using fiber to connect Nelson County, Wintergreen, and Scottsville, police
and 1st responders to Nelson Countyâ€™s â€œmiddle mileâ€ project (Round 1 EasyGrants ID
891). This is accomplished by connecting 3 separate fiber lines to Nelson Counties â€œmiddle
mileâ€ . One line would run from Wintergreenâ€™s 1st responders & 911 facilities to Nelson
Countyâ€™s â€œmiddle mileâ€ at the intersection of River Rd. & Adial Rd. (Routes 6 & 634
west). The 2nd would run from Scottsvilleâ€™s Police Dept. & 1st responders to Nelson Countyâ
€™s â€œmiddle mileâ€ at the intersection of River Road & Old Roberts Mtn. Rd. (US Routes 6
& 634 east). The 3rd would run from Brownings Cove to Lovingston. The synergy created by
building on the earlier project will have a multiplier effect on the value of both by providing high
speed access to anyone along any of the routes, including the Round 1 â€œmiddle mileâ€ .
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Applicant: SCOTT COUNTY TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE
Contact: WILLIAM J FRANKLIN
(276) 4529119 x201
billfranklin@sctc.org
Project Title: FTTP South Scott County
Description: Scott County Telephone Cooperative (SCTC), a "501C(12) nonprofit organization", is proposing
to build a FTTP Project in South Scott County, Virginia and a small portion of Russell County,
Virginia. This FTTP Project would serve the Hiltons, Kermit, Morrison City, Wadlow Gap, Stanley
Valley, Possum Creek, Williams Mill, Fairview, Robinette Valley, and Dungannon communities of
South Scott County and a small portion or Russell County. This network would connect to the
existing network SCTC has in place. The proposed FTTP project would serve 4,873 residential
customers and 100 business customers for a total customer count of 4,973. SCTC will deploy a
FTTP Network with 10 Gigabits of bandwidth. It will be an active Ethernet system.
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Applicant: SCOTT COUNTY TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE
Contact: WILLIAM J FRANKLIN
(276) 4529119 x201
billfranklin@sctc.org
Project Title: FTTP South Scott County
Description: Scott County Telephone Cooperative (SCTC), a "501C(12)nonprofit organization", is proposing to
build a FTTP Project in South Scott County, Virginia and a small portion of Russell County,
Virginia. This FTTP Project would serve the Hiltons, Kermit, Morrison City, Wadlow Gap, Stanley
Valley, Possum Creek, Williams Mill, Fairview, Robinette Valley, and Dungannon Communities of
South Scott County and a small portion of Russell. This network would connect to the existing
network SCTC has in place. The proposed FTTP Project would serve 4,873 residential customers
and 100 business customers for a total customer count of 4,973. SCTC will deploy a FTTP
Network with 10 Gigabits of bandwidth. It will be an active Ethernet system.
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Applicant: SUNSET DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS, INC
Contact: PAUL ELSWICK
(276) 4317200
rusgrants@sunsetcom.net
Project Title: TRANSFORM Tennessee
Description: The TRANSFORM Project will provide ultrahigh speed broadband to one of the poorest and
undereducated regions of the nation with an experienced team that has worked together in this
field successfully for nearly 10 years. Our PFSA is both unserved and underserved, contains two
persistent poverty counties, and is located in the Appalachians of Northeast Tennessee. The
project will pass 10,920 premises. It places emphasis on partnering with three funded Middle Mile
projects, and has synergistic operations planned with two other Last Mile applications. These
partnerships will create a Digital Nexus of connectivity that will break the cycle of persistent
poverty. This project will do this by bringing global connectivity that is needed to support lifelong
education of the labor force, and driving economic development with techniques that have only
become possible in the Digital Age.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: TEHAN WOGLAKE, INC.
Contact: KELLY ESSEESY
(202) 5501877
sycuanapplication@gmail.com
Project Title: Lasting Connections: Tribal & Rural America (AR, LA, MS, TX)
Proposed Project Area: Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas
Loan Request: $56,635,864.00
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(202) 5501877
Project Title: Lasting Connections: Tribal & Rural America (AR, MO, OK)
Proposed Project Area: Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma
Loan Request: $57,404,144.00
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(202) 5501877
Project Title: Lasting Connections: Tribal & Rural America (SD, IA, IL)
Proposed Project Area: Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, South Dakota, Wisconsin
Loan Request: $88,442,600.00
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(202) 5501877
Project Title: Lasting Connections: Tribal & Rural America (AZ, CA, NV, UT)
Proposed Project Area: Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
Loan Request: $18,987,746.00
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Applicant: VIRGINIA PCS ALLIANCE LC
Contact: AMBER BENSON
(540) 9468659
bensona@ntelos.com
Project Title: Rural Mobile Broadband Initiative The Virginias
Proposed Project Area: Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Our project, â€œRural Mobile Broadband Initiative â€“ The Virginiasâ€ will provide cost effective
highspeed mobile broadband to various rural and lowincome areas of the existing NTELOS PCS
wireless network, where without an ARRA award it had not been economically feasible to launch
our highly successful EVDO Rev. A service. This project is shovel ready in that all the sites
identified to be upgraded are currently providing voice service. The upgrade to highspeed mobile
broadband, as detailed in this application, will significantly minimize any environmental impact, by
utilizing existing towers rather than building new ones. Since 2007, NTELOS has successfully
upgraded 1065 of its existing cell sites to EVDO Rev. A service. The project described in this
application is simply the expansion of the same plan, for which the senior management team has
a demonstrated track record of success.
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Applicant: WEST VIRGINIA PCS ALLIANCE, LC
Contact: AMBER BENSON
(540) 9468659
bensona@ntelos.com
Project Title: Rural Mobile Broadband Initiative Maryland
Proposed Project Area: Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Our project, â€œRural Mobile Broadband Initiative â€“ Marylandâ€ will provide cost effective
highspeed mobile broadband to various rural and lowincome areas of the existing NTELOS PCS
wireless network, where without an ARRA award it had not been economically feasible to launch
our highly successful EVDO Rev. A service. This project is shovel ready in that all the sites
identified to be upgraded are currently providing voice service. The upgrade to highspeed mobile
broadband, as detailed in this application, will significantly minimize any environmental impact, by
utilizing existing towers rather than building new ones. Since 2007, NTELOS has successfully
upgraded 1065 of its existing cell sites to EVDO Rev. A service. The project described in this
application is simply the expansion of the same plan, for which the senior management team has
a demonstrated track record of success.
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Applicant: WVVA.NET INC.
Contact: MICHAEL D CLEMONS
(540) 7262317
bip@wvva.net
Project Title: Broadband Expansion for Rural Giles County, Virginia
Description: This project will provide affordable broadband service to the unserved communities of Giles
County, Virginia including the areas along route 100 of White Gate, Staffordsville, Trigg, and Bear
Springs and the upper portion of the Wolf Creek community. Service will be provided utilitzing
fixed wireless technology.
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Washington
Applicant: CASCADE NETWORKS, INC.
Contact: JASON EDWARD PETRILLO
(360) 4424414
jason@cni.net
Project Title: Rural Clatskanie Broadband Initiative
Proposed Project Area: Oregon, Washington
Description: This project will extend our reach beyond our current service area or the service areas of our
competitors thereby providing services not previously available to 1322 homes in Columbia
County, Oregon. The network will consist of FTTX infrastructure with an unlicensed 900 MHz
wireless network overbuild that will allow us to reach homes that are otherwise unreachable due to
cost.
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Applicant: COLVILLE CONFEDERATED TRIBES
Contact: ANNE MARCHAND
(509) 6342242
anne.marchand@colvilletribes.com
Project Title: Colville Confederated Tribes Broadband Development Initiative
Description: The Colville Confederated Tribes proposes a 275 mile open access last mile fiber optic network to
connect the 2100 square mile community's households, businesses and critical community
facilities to broadband. The Tribe applied for BTOP Public Computer Center and Sustainable
Broadband Adoption grants. Funding for 275 miles of fiber will enable 15 public computer centers
to bring digital literacy, and job training, and business training programs to the tribal communities.
It will support sustainable broadband strategies to help the community leverage broadband
access, with the assistance of a 100 youth Technology Corps to help with teaching and cultural
preservation efforts. This project is an open access project that will promote competition among
retail providers, lower high capital costs of backbone facilities and spur entry of new
entrenpeneurs into the network services market.
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Applicant: ECLIPTIXNET BROADBAND,INC
Contact: JEFF TAMIETTI
(509) 2790393
arra@ecliptixnet.com
Project Title: Northeast Washington Rural Broadband Access Network (NWRBAN)
Description: Building on the experience EcliptixNet gained in deploying its current, RUSfunded broadband
infrastructure, EcliptixNet is proposing to introduce technologically advanced and affordable
broadband services at much greater speed capacities to over 90% of the rural premises across
the counties of Ferry, Stevens, and Spokane, WA. This communityoriented project will establish
high speed broadband services through fixed and mobile, indoor/outdoor, wireless connections to
over 27,300 households, 3,600 businesses, and 300 Critical Community Institutions. From the
deployment of this extensive network, EcliptixNet will establish a means of economic stability and
secure a path for economic, physical and educational growth for each community. The success of
this broadband project will provide a digital interstate for community development and economic
growth throughout the proposed service area.
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Applicant: HOOD CANAL TELEPHONE CO., INC.
Contact: JENNY GOOS
(360) 8982481
jennyg@hcc.net
Project Title: Mason County Connect
Description: Hood Canal Communications is proposing to expand broadband service throughout rural Mason
County, Washington. This proposal includes parts of the Squaxin Indian Reservation, the area
surrounding Pioneer School, and several other developments. Mason County was built around the
timber industry, and has been hit hard by the recent economic downturn. Because 80% of the
County residents live in rural areas, unavailability of broadband is still a major obstacle. This
proposal would expand Hood Canal Communications' Hybrid Fiber Coax (HFC) network to bring
much needed broadband service to 737 households and businesses and several critical
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Applicant: INLAND TELEPHONE COMPANY
Contact: JAMES BROOKS
(509) 6492211
jbrooks@inlandnet.com
Project Title: Inland Telephone Company Lenore
Description: This project proposes to build Fiber to the Node (FTTN) to Inland Telephone Companyâ€™s rural
Lenore exchange where we currently do not provide high speed Internet or provide no broadband.
The project will extend high speed broadband services to households, businesses, and key
community organizations. Lenore exchange is located along the Clearwater River in Nez Perce
County in the north central portion of Idaho. The overall Lenore service area consists of
approximately 94 square miles, with 173 route miles of plant serving 307 access lines.
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(509) 6492211
Project Title: Inland Telephone Company Dewatto
Dewatto exchange where we currently are not able to provide high speed Internet access. The
project will extend high speed broadband services to households, businesses, and key community
organizations. The Dewatto exchange is located along the Hood Canal Peninsula in Mason and
Kitsap Counties, in western Washington. The overall service area consists of 57 square miles,
with 128 route miles of buried plant serving 393 access lines. The existing twisted pair copper
plant and much of the existing support infrastructure in the central office and remote cabinets is in
good condition and will be retained.
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(509) 6492211
Project Title: Inland Telephone Company Prescott
Prescott exchange where we currently do not provide high speed Internet. The project will extend
high speed broadband services to households, businesses, and key community organizations.
The Prescott exchange is located in Columbia and Walla Walla Counties, in the southeast portion
of the State of Washington. The overall Prescott service area consists of approximately 122
square miles, with 148 route miles of plant serving 213 access lines.
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Applicant: INTERNATIONAL NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES INC.
Contact: GLENN RICHARD MEYER
(425) 5030943
gmeyer@ygnition.com
Project Title: Southern Illinois Broadband Network
Proposed Project Area: Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri
Loan Request: $26,424,161.00
Description: Build and operate a wireless broadband network in the 34 Southern most counties in Illinois.
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Applicant: PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT #3 OF MASON COUNTY
Contact: WYLA WOOD
(360) 4325243
terrio@masonpud3.org
Project Title: Harstine Island Broadband Bridge
Description: Mason County PUD No. 3 is applying for Broadband Stimulus funding to provide necessary
broadband services to the Harstine Island Community, which is under served, unserved, and
economically distressed. The island is approximately ten miles long and three miles wide, is
located at the southern end of Puget Sound, 50 miles away from the nearest nonrural area. It is
accessible by bridge from Highway 3 that links Shelton to Bremerton. The grant will provide
funding to construct a fiber to the home network using Active Ethernet technology along with
wireless broadband in the last mile. The network will be open access and provide the residents
with choices on services and providers. This proposed project will allow over 1500 businesses and
residents in this distressed community access to critical community facilities for public safety, on
line education, and critical government facilities.
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Applicant: PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT 1 OF CHELAN COUNTY
Contact: ROBERT EARL SHANE
(509) 6614161
roberte@chelanpud.org
Project Title: Public Utility District No. 1 of Chelan County FTTX Rural Expansion
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: With RUS funding, CCPUD would extend its FTTX infrastructure to serve the remaining 6,811
rural premises that are still without access to broadband. Currently this standardsbased Passive
Optical Network (PON) provides broadband access to over 30,000 premises in Chelan County.
Local retail service providers use the infrastructure built by the CCPUD to provide highspeed
Internet, television and telephone services to nearly 10,000 customers, including residences,
businesses and critical community facilities. By extending the network, remaining rural customers
would be able to acquire the services they desire from private sector providers. The communities
near Blewett Pass, Cashmere, Leavenworth, Entiat, Malaga, Lake Wenatchee and Chelan are
targeted under the ARRA RUS Act.
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Applicant: PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT 1 OF OKANOGAN COUNTY
Contact: RON GADEBERG
(509) 4228488
rong@okpud.org
Project Title: Okanogan County PUD LastMile Project
Description: Project will extend highspeed broadband to 6,543 residents and businesses located in rural,
unserved and underserved Okanogan County using a fiber backbone and 170 wireless access
nodes. The proposed system will leverage the resources and assets of the existing fiber optic and
electric infrastructure to create a sustainable operation that fosters wholesale, openaccess
competition which equates to choice, high quality service and innovation with products and
support services.
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Applicant: PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT 2 GRANT COUNTY
Contact: WARREN MILLER
(509) 7931538
Wmiller@gcpud.org
Project Title: Grant County PUD LastMile Project
Loan Request: $25,162,707.00
Description: Public Utility District No. 1 of Grant County, WA seeks funding in support of its Ethernet over Fiber
and Point to MultiPoint LastMile, OpenAccess Network for the areas of Grant County,
Washington that currently lack access to highspeed broadband. The lastmile system, combining
a costeffective mix of FTTx and wireless, will be integrated into the Grant PUDâ€™s existing fiber
backbone, and will pass 11,589 households and 455 businesses. In combination with the Grant
PUDâ€™s existing lastmile service capabilities, the proposed funded network will enable high
speed broadband access to nearly the entire county.
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Applicant: QUINAULT INDIAN NATION
Contact: STORMEY ROBINSON
(360) 2768211
SROBINSON@quinault.org
Project Title: Quinault Indian Nation Broadband Initiative for Safer Communities and Sustainable Economic Growth
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP) will provide the Quinault Indian Nation with of broadband
communications services and infrastructure where none currently exists. Public Safety and
Emergency Services do not have reliable voice or data communication across the Reservation.
Broadband fiber coupled with wireless mesh will ensure that these agencies will no longer be
isolated while on duty. The Broadband Initiatives Program will connect 52 households in Queets
and 263 households in Tahola and bring these populations into parity with other American
communities. By building the technological infrastructure, the Quinault Indian Nation will spur job
creation and the economy to fuel longterm economic growth and opportunity within our Tribal
community. The 100% rural area of the Quinault Reservation will go from no broadband access to
65% of households with the option for access.
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Applicant: SATTLE MOUNTAIN WIRELESS
Contact: JEFRY S. GALLACCI
(509) 9325088
jef@tatoes.com
Project Title: South East Washington Wireless Broadband Initiative (Last Mile)
Description: SMW proposes a project expanding a currently nonfunded WISP to include the additional 16
Eastern Washington State communities of: Almira, Bridgeport, Connell, Creston, Davenport,
Dayton, Electric City, Endicott, Ephrata, Hartline, LaCrosse, Lind, Moses Lake, Odessa, Ritzville,
Watesburg and Wilbur utilizing current Motorola Canopy WISP technology. This supports
providing broadband services to an additional 71,704 Residents, 29,654 Housing Units, 26,278
Households, 5,124 Businesses and 346 Anchor Institutions in unserved and rural areas without
access to highspeed connections, which under current economic conditions would not receive
broadband services without the support of this RUSBIP program.
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Applicant: SAWTOOTH TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C.
Contact: BRIAN ADAMS
(509) 4274865
info@saw.net
Project Title: Klickitat Horizons Broadband Project
Description: Through our last mile project, Sawtooth Technologies LLC will provide high speed Internet and
voice services to consumers and businesses in unserved areas in Klickitat County in Washington.
Sawtooth Technologies a local Internet Service Provider is submitting this application with
partners Gorge Networks, Axxis Communications contributing outside leveraging, and The
Klickitat Horizons Telecommunications Committee providing cooperative research to identify and
solve the lack of broadband in Klickitat County, and Washington State University, providing
education for enhancing job creation through technology. Constructing an open access hybrid
fiber optic, DSL and wireless network will address the lack of broadband Internet access in
Appleton, Snowden, Glenwood, and Ponderosa Park and bring high speed telecommunications
service to 539 households, 37 businesses, 2 schools, and 2 firehalls.
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Applicant: SAWTOOTH TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C.
Contact: BRIAN ADAMS
(509) 4274865
info@saw.net
Project Title: Wind River Valley Mill A Broadband Project
Description: Through our last mile project, Sawtooth Technologies LLC will provide high speed Internet and
voice services to consumers and businesses in unserved areas in Skamania County in
Washington. This application is being submitted by Sawtooth Technologies a local Internet
Service Provider with partners Skamania County, Gorge Networks, Axxis Communications
contributing outside leveraging to fund the project. Constructing a open access hybrid fiber optic,
DSL and wireless network will address the lack of broadband Internet access in the River Valley
and Cook â€“ Mill A â€“ Willard and bring high speed telecommunications service to 216
households, 20 businesses, 5 government organizations, 2 schools, and 3 firehalls. Fiberoptics
will be extended to businesses and new DSLAMS and wireless transmitters will enable high speed
Internet for residences.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: STERLING ADVANCEMENTS
Contact: STERLING L LIPSCOMB
(509) 7147373
Sterling_31@msn.com
Project Title: Rural Health and Education Local access Project (Rural H.E.L.P.)
Loan Request: $17,328,855.00
Description: The Rural Health and Education Local access Project (Rural H.E.L.P.) has identified the need for
rural community health and education organizations in Eastern Washington to gain access to
carrier grade high speed fiber optic facilities. Rural H.E.L.P. intends to address this need by
creating vendor neutral Points of Presence (PoPâ€™s) in rural population centers throughout the
region and to build last mile facilities out to rural hospitals, schools, and businesses. These PoPâ
€™s will serve as meet points between Rural H.E.L.P. provided last mile facilities and various
middle mile carriers, provide colocation facilities for local businesses, and allow students and
residents access to computers and high speed internet. The project will provide high speed
internet access available for over 5,700 businesses and 532 CCF and PSE's.
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West Virginia
Applicant: 3 WLOGIC, LLC
Contact: EMIEL HOWARD BUTCHER
(304) 4729100
bwentz@3wlogic.com
Project Title: 3WLogic Rural WV Broadband Expansion Project
Proposed Project Area: West Virginia
Description: The 3WLogic Rural WV Broadband Expansion Project will provide last mile rural community
based broadband infrastructure within the unserved counties of: Barbour, Braxton, Gilmer, Lewis,
Nicholas, Randolph, and Upshur; thereby promoting economic development, education, training,
safety and broadband awareness for vulnerable individuals, educational institutions, healthcare
facilities, and libraries.
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Applicant: GATEWAY TELECOM, LLC
Contact: WILLIAM JOHN REASBECK
(304) 2335343
reas@swave.net
Project Title: Gateway Telecom LLC Last Mile Project
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Gateway Telecom, LLC dba StratusWave Communications proposes to build and operate a
wireless lastmile broadband solution to serve residences and anchor institutions in unserved rural
areas of West Virginia and Ohio. An experienced local operator with strong management and key
relationships, StratusWave will deploy service using licensed 2.5 GHz spectrum and unlicensed
900 MHz and 5.8 GHz.
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Applicant: HARDY TELECOMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Contact: DAVID SCOTT SHERMAN
(304) 8979911
ssherman@hardynet.com
Project Title: Hardy OneNet Fiber to the Home Project
Description: The Hardy OneNet Fiber to the Home Project is a turning point for underserved rural mountain
communities in Hardy County, West Virginia, allowing instant access to share information and
ideas with others across the world, and increase knowledge, productivity and prosperity. Hardy
OneNet is a Fiber to the Home network providing affordable, reliable utrahigh speed Internet
access, VoiP, and video services to underserved areas. Hardy Telecommunications is a nonprofit
rural telephone cooperative committed to working together with its members, other nonprofit
organizations and public instituions to serve the needs of the people of Hardy County.
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Applicant: SKYWEB, INC.
Contact: EMMETT CAPPER
(248) 6268718
wdhc@aol.com
Project Title: SKYWEB Alleghany Regional Wireless Internet Project
Proposed Project Area: Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Expand the existing SKYWEB system to provide broadband wireless internet access to a
minimum of 90% of households and 100% of businesses and community facilities in Morgan,
Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, and Pendleton Counties, West Virginia. The project includes increasing
the amount of bandwidth in order to provide service above the current 1.5Mbps/785Kbps an
extending the current of improved Morgan County service southward into four additional counties.
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Applicant: SPRUCE KNOB SENECA ROCKS TELEPHONE, INC.
Contact: PHYLLIS A WHITTEN
(301) 2702271
pawhitten@earthlink.net
Project Title: SKSRT Rural Broadband Project
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Spruce Knob Seneca Rocks Telephone, Inc. (SKSRT) proposes to install fiber optic capacity, with
associated wireless capability, to provide last mile broadband services in Pendleton and
Pocahontas Counties in West Virginia.
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Applicant: WVWISP LLC
Contact: MARYANN RHODES
(304) 3731212
maryann@wvwisp.com
Project Title: WV WISP LLC Broadband Expansion Project
Description: Expansion of current infrastructure and construction of new infrastructure to serve communities
within Jackson County and Mason County, West Virginia.
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Wisconsin
Applicant: AIRADIGM COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Contact: ROBERT J. GALLE
(714) 3436570
pliebmann@einsteinwireless.net
Project Title: Powerband â€“ High Speed Broadband For Rural Wisconsin
Proposed Project Area: Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin
Loan Request: $18,000,591.00
Description: Powerband provides highspeed fixed wireless broadband services to rural and underserved
communities throughout Wisconsin. Powerband significantly exceeds minimum broadband speed
requirements and will always provide the highest speed possible to these areas, thus providing
residents the maximum benefit and innovation from broadband stimulus funding and the applicantâ
€™s experienced, seasoned management team.
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Applicant: ARIZONA TELEPHONE COMPANY
Contact: TIMOTHY W ULRICH
(608) 6644114
timothy.ulrich@tdstelecom.com
Project Title: Arizona Telephone Company: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Proposed Project Area: Arizona, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, Wisconsin
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Arizona Telephone Company, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring high
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Applicant: ARVIG TELEPHONE COMPANY
(608) 6644114
gra@tdstelecom.com
Project Title: Arvig Telephone Company: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Arvig Telephone Company, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring highspeed
DSL broadband service to unserved establishments within its rural service territory, which is
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Applicant: BAD RIVER BAND OF LAKE SUPERIOR CHIPPEWA INDIANS (INC)
Contact: MIKE WIGGINS, JR.
(715) 6827111
brchair@badriver.com
Project Title: Bad River Net
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The Bad River Tribe proposes to create Bad River Net a next generation wireless broadband
network for the purpose of making broadband Internet access available to its tribal businesses,
government enterprises, and households currently underserved or unserved by broadband on
the Bad River tribal land(s) in rural Wisconsin. The Bad River Tribe will deploy stateoftheart
900MHz Wireless technology to create a canopy wireless Internet access offering, and will
contract with a wholesale CLEC or ILEC for its wholesale Internet backhaul requirements.
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Applicant: BADGER TELECOM, LLC
(608) 6644114
gra@tdstelecom.com
Project Title: Badger Telecom, LLC: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Badger Telecom, LLC, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring highspeed DSL
broadband service to unserved establishments within its rural service territory, which is
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Broadband USA
Applicant: BALDWIN TELECOM, INC.
Contact: JOHN SCHULTZ
(651) 9677196
jschultz@urekabroadband.com
Project Title: Town of Troy FTTP NetworkBTI
Description: This network will build a 109 mile fibertothehome infrastructure to serve 1538 residential, 30
business passings and two Critical Community Facilities (CCF)in the Town of Troy Wisconsin. The
capital requirement for this project is $9,189,254 ($9,067,898 in BIP funds) . This network will
provide voice, video and internet service to unserved and underserved residences in the territory.
Currently the Town of Troy is surrounded by service providers who have been unwilling or unable
to extend their services into the Town. The Town of Troy has made attempts to bring service
providers to the area for over two years and they have participated in preparing this application to
bring the services that allow their residents to have better access to health, education, government
and to allow telework applications (40% of residents surveyed stated they worked from home at
least one day a week).
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Applicant: BERTRAM COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
Contact: JAMES BERTRAM
(920) 9942388
broadbandusa@bertramwireless.com
Project Title: Wisconsin on Wireless (WOW)
Proposed Project Area: Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin
Loan Request: $36,495,136.00
Description: The Bertram Wireless project will provide the first ever 4G highspeed broadband Internet service
to underserved areas in North and Eastern Wisconsin.
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Applicant: BLUE RIDGE TELEPHONE COMPANY
(608) 6644114
Project Title: Blue Ridge Telephone Company: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Blue Ridge Telephone Company, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring high
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Broadband USA
Applicant: BURLINGTON, BRIGHTON \& WHEATLAND TELEPHONE COMPANY, LLC
(608) 6644114
gra@tdstelecom.com
Project Title: BB&W Telephone Company, LLC: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Burlington, Brighton & Wheatland Telephone Company, LLC, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom,
proposes a project to bring highspeed DSL broadband service to unserved establishments within
its rural service territory, which is comparable to the DSL service provided in its more populated
areas. The network is also engineered so that it can be easily upgraded at a reasonable cost to
meet future needs.
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Applicant: CALHOUN CITY TELEPHONE COMPANY, INC.
(608) 6644114
Project Title: Calhoun City Telephone Company, Inc.: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Calhoun City Telephone Company, Inc., a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring
highspeed DSL broadband service to unserved establishments within its rural service territory,
which is comparable to the DSL service provided in its more populated areas. The network is also
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Broadband USA
Applicant: CAMDEN TELEPHONE COMPANY INC
(608) 6644114
gra@tdstelecom.com
Project Title: Camden Telephone Company, Inc.,: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Camden Telephone Company, Inc., a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring high
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Broadband USA
Applicant: CENTRAL STATE TELEPHONE COMPANY, LLC
(608) 6644114
Project Title: Central State Telephone Company, LLC.: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Central State Telephone Company, LLC, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to
bring highspeed DSL broadband service to unserved establishments within its rural service
territory, which is comparable to the DSL service provided in its more populated areas. The
network is also engineered so that it can be easily upgraded at a reasonable cost to meet future
needs.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: CHEQUAMEGON COMMUNICATIONS COOPERATIVE INC
Contact: DAVID JAMES CARTER
(715) 7987147
dcarter@cheqtel.com
Project Title: Chequamegon Fiber to the Home
Loan Request: $15,549,091.00
Description: Chequamegon Communications Cooperative, Inc. (CCC) will deploy FTTH, providing high speed
internet access to communities it serves in northern Wisconsin. CCC plans to pass over 5,000
households and businesses as well as multiple critical community facilities. With the proposed
project, CCC will not only bring this essential service to its rural area, but will create many jobs
and stimulate the local economy.
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Applicant: COMMUNICATION CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN
(608) 6644114
gra@tdstelecom.com
Project Title: Communication Corporation of Michigan: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Communication Corporation of Michigan, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to
needs.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: DELTA COUNTY TELECOMM, INC
(608) 6644114
Project Title: Delta County TeleComm, Inc.: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Delta County TeleComm, Inc., a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring high
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Broadband USA
Applicant: DEPOSIT TELEPHONE COMPANY, INC.
(608) 6644114
gra@tdstelecom.com
Project Title: Deposit Telephone Company, Inc.: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Deposit Telephone Company, Inc., a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring high
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Broadband USA
Applicant: DOTNET ACQUISITION COMPANY, LLC
Contact: FRANKLIN EDWARD CUMBERBATCH
(920) 2995323
frank@gbandinc.com
Project Title: TriCounty Wireless Broadband Project
Description: The TriCounty Wireless Broadband Project will build a high speed, affordable terrestrial fixed
wireless broadband network to serve 51 rural communities in Green Lake County, Marquette
County and Waushara County, Wisconsin. This lastmile project will cover almost 1500 square
miles and provide broadband access to approximately 20,000 households, local businesses,
farms and anchor institutions in these communities, which currently have no access to highspeed
broadband services. The network will function as the transport mechanism for services such as
onetoone learning for public school students and distance learning for professionals and seniors;
healthcare connectivity between patients and care providers; realtime data to first responders and
a marketing tool to attract business and skilled workers.
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Applicant: DOTNET ACQUISITION COMPANY, LLC
Contact: FRANKLIN EDWARD CUMBERBATCH
(920) 2995323
frank@gbandinc.com
Project Title: Rural Fond du Lac County Wireless Broadband Project
Description: The Rural Fond du Lac County Wireless Broadband Project will build a high speed, affordable
terrestrial fixed wireless broadband network to serve 22 rural communities in Fond du Lac County,
Wisconsin. This lastmile project will cover over XX square miles and provide broadband access to
approximately 3,000 households,local businesses, farms and anchor institutions in these
communities, which currently have no access to highspeed broadband services. The project will
also make service available to 24 entities and organizations considered community anchor
institutions, public safety entities, and critical community organizations in the county.
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Applicant: EASTCOAST TELECOM OF WISCONSIN, LLC
(608) 6644114
gra@tdstelecom.com
Project Title: EastCoast Telecom of Wisconsin, LLC: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: EastCoast Telecom of Wisconsin, LLC, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring
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Broadband USA
Applicant: FARMERS TELEPHONE COMPANY, LLC, THE
(608) 6644114
gra@tdstelecom.com
Project Title: The Farmers Telephone Company, LLC: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Proposed Project Area: Iowa, Wisconsin
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The Farmers Telephone Company, LLC, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring
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Broadband USA
Applicant: GRANTLAND TELECOM, LLC
(608) 6644114
gra@tdstelecom.com
Project Title: Grantland Telecom, LLC: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Proposed Project Area: Iowa, Wisconsin
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Grantland Telecom, LLC, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring highspeed
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Applicant: HARTLAND AND ST ALBANS TELEPHONE COMPANY
(608) 6644114
Project Title: Hartland and St. Albans Telephone Company: Broadband project to serve rural unserved
establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Hartland and St. Albans Telephone Company, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to
needs.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: HILBERT COMMUNICATIONS LLC
Contact: STEVEN JAMES SCHNEIDER
(920) 2022390
sschneider@intelegra.biz
Project Title: See a Need. Fill a Need. Rural Wisconsin.
Proposed Project Area: Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin
Loan Request: $37,087,522.00
Description: Hilbert Communications intends to provide 7.214.4 Mbps broadband service throughout unserved
and underserved portions of 26 counties in rural Wisconsin utilizing AlcatelLucent UMTS HSPA+
equipment and connecting these sites with a combination of Hilbert's existing 1,200 mile fiberoptic
cable system operating at 1040 GBps as well as through fiber being built through awards made to
the State of Wisconsin Department of Administration Middle Mile and The Board of Regents of the
University of Wisconsin System Middle Mile awarded in Round1 of the ARRA Rural Broadband
Grants under open access filing. Individual homes and businesses will be connected by utilizing a
product known as the "BugSurfer"(tm)which contains two Ethernet ports with tested speeds of 3.0
to 7.2 Mbps Downlink and 3.0 to 5.4 Mbps Uplink. The BugSurfer also has a built in WiFi "Hotspot"
and a VoIP port for voice.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: HOME TELEPHONE COMPANY INC
(608) 6644114
Project Title: Home Telephone Company, Inc. : Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Home Telephone Company, Inc., a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring high
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Broadband USA
Applicant: ISLAND TELEPHONE COMPANY
(608) 6644114
gra@tdstelecom.com
Project Title: Island Telephone Company: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Proposed Project Area: Michigan, Minnesota
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Island Telephone Company, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring highspeed
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Broadband USA
Applicant: KEARSARGE TELEPHONE COMPANY
(608) 6644114
Project Title: Kearsarge Telephone Company: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Kearsarge Telephone Company, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring high
Page 740 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: LESLIE COUNTY TELEPHONE COMPANY
(608) 6644114
gra@tdstelecom.com
Project Title: Leslie County Telephone Company: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Leslie County Telephone Company, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring
Page 741 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: MARQUETTEADAMS TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE, INC.
Contact: JERRY LYDELL SCHNEIDER
(608) 5720106
jschneider@maadtelco.com
Project Title: Broadband Edge Out MarquetteAdams Telephone Cooperative
Description: Extend fiber optic service from existing Telephone Cooperative service area to unserved rural
areas bordering our current territory. All customers in our current territory can get broadband
serves, digital cable television and advanced voices service from us now. As a Cooperative we
are committed to provide the highest grade of service at the lowest price that can insure a
sustained reliable network.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: MCDANIEL TELEPHONE COMPANY
(608) 6644114
Project Title: McDaniel Telephone Company: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: McDaniel Telephone Company, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring high
Page 743 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: MERRIMACK COUNTY TELEPHONE COMPANY
(608) 6644114
Project Title: Merrimack County Telephone Company: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Merrimack County Telephone Company, a subsidiary of TDS Telecommunications Corporation, is
a certified incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) located in rural New Hampshire that provisions
voice and data services within its established exchange(s).
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Broadband USA
Applicant: MIDAMERICA TELEPHONE, INC.
(608) 6644114
gra@tdstelecom.com
Project Title: MidAmerica Telephone, Inc.: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: MidAmerica Telephone, Inc., a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring high
Page 745 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: MIDSTATE TELEPHONE CO.
(608) 6644114
gra@tdstelecom.com
Project Title: MidState Telephone Company: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Proposed Project Area: Michigan, Minnesota
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: MidState Telephone Company, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring high
Page 746 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: MIDWAY TELEPHONE COMPANY
(608) 6644114
Project Title: Midway Telephone Company, LLC: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Midway Telephone Company, LLC, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring high
Page 747 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: NETWURX, LLC
Contact: PETE MAHER
(414) 5884239
pete@netwurx.net
Project Title: NRBI Netwurx Rural Broadband Initiative
Description: The Netwurx NRBI (Netwurx Rural Broadband Initiative) will install WiMax compatible locations
throughout South Central Wisconsin servicing rural areas between Milwaukee and Madison, which
we have done for over 13 years. Netwurx began providing high speed wireless internet 7 years
ago, concentrating on unserved and underserved areas. Our present towers will be upgraded to
new technology and fiber will be added to deliver speeds of up to 1Gbit/sec to some locations and
10Mbit/sec to general customers. We will build a significant number of new locations covering
100% of our PFSA. Netwurx will continue to offer free access to all Emergency services like police
and fire within our PFSA. Netwurx also offers free service to government institutions like cities,
towns, schools and libraries within its territory in exchange for mounting rights on facilities.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: NEW CASTLE TELEPHONE COMPANY
(608) 6644114
gra@tdstelecom.com
Project Title: New Castle Telephone Company: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Proposed Project Area: Virginia, West Virginia
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: New Castle Telephone Company, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring high
Page 749 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: OKLAHOMA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, INC
(608) 6644114
Project Title: Oklahoma Communication Systems, Inc.: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Oklahoma Communication Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to
needs.
Page 750 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: ORCHARD FARM TELEPHONE CO.
(608) 6644114
Project Title: Orchard Farm Telephone Co.: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Orchard Farm Telephone Co., a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring high
Page 751 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: PEOPLES TELEPHONE COMPANY, INC
(608) 6644114
Project Title: Peoples Telephone Company, Inc.: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Peoples Telephone Company, Inc., a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring high
Page 752 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: PIERCE, COUNTY OF
Contact: BRAD ROY
(715) 2736747
brad.roy@co.pierce.wi.us
Project Title: Pierce County Broadband
Proposed Project Area: Minnesota, Wisconsin
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Pierce County Broadband is a project to provide mobile broadband throughout Pierce County, WI.
The project will make broadband available for every resident and business. The secure network
will also improve public safety, support economic development, enhance health care and advance
educational opportunities.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: PORT BYRON TELEPHONE CO INC
(608) 6644114
gra@tdstelecom.com
Project Title: Port Byron Telephone Company: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Port Byron Telephone Company, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring high
Page 754 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: POTLATCH TELEPHONE COMPANY
(608) 6644114
Project Title: Potlatch Telephone Company: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Potlatch Telephone Company, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring high
Page 755 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: QUINCY TELEPHONE COMPANY
(608) 6644114
gra@tdstelecom.com
Project Title: Quincy Telephone Company: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Quincy Telephone Company, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring high
Page 756 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: REEDSBURG UTILITY COMMISSION, INC
Contact: SCOTT E. CARROLL
(608) 6436477 x118
scarroll@kapitaneng.com
Project Title: Reedsburg Utility Commission Fiber Network Expansion
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The design included in this grant application extends an existing municipal FibertothePremise
(FTTP)network operated by City of Reedsburg acting through Reedsburg Utility Commission, to
the surrounding rural area to provide affordable advanced broadband service to residents and
businesses that are currently confined to traditional dialup, unreliable wireless, and costly satellite
services. This rural area of southwestern portion of Wisconsin has been well documented as being
deficient in broadband services due to the hilly terrain and numerous valleys which severely limits
wireless and satellite service coverage.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: RIVERSIDE TELECOM, LLC
(608) 6644114
gra@tdstelecom.com
Project Title: Riverside Telecom, LLC: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Riverside Telecom, LLC, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring highspeed
Page 758 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: SALEM TELEPHONE COMPANY
(608) 6644114
Project Title: Salem Telephone Company: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Salem Telephone Company, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring highspeed
Page 759 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: SCANDINAVIA TELPHONE COMPANY, LLC
(608) 6644114
gra@tdstelecom.com
Project Title: Scandinavia Telephone Company, LLC: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Scandinavia Telephone Company, LLC, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring
Page 760 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: SOMERSET TELEPHONE COMPANY INC
(608) 6644114
Project Title: Somerset Telephone Company: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Somerset Telephone Company, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring high
Page 761 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI TELEPHONE COMPANY, INC
(608) 6644114
gra@tdstelecom.com
Project Title: Southeast Mississippi Telephone Co., Inc.: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Southeast Mississippi Telephone Company, Inc., a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project
to bring highspeed DSL broadband service to unserved establishments within its rural service
needs.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: SOUTHEAST TELEPHONE CO. OF WISCONSIN, LLC
(608) 6644114
gra@tdstelecom.com
Project Title: Southeast Telephone Co. of Wisconsin, LLC: Broadband project to serve rural unserved
establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Southeast Telephone Co. of Wisconsin, LLC, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to
needs.
Page 763 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: STOCKBRIDGE \& SHERWOOD TELEPHONE COMPANY, LLC
(608) 6644114
Project Title: Stockbridge & Sherwood Telephone Company: Broadband project to serve rural unserved
establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Stockbridge & Sherwood Telephone Company, LLC, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a
project to bring highspeed DSL broadband service to unserved establishments within its rural
service territory, which is comparable to the DSL service provided in its more populated areas.
The network is also engineered so that it can be easily upgraded at a reasonable cost to meet
future needs.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: STOCKBRIDGEMUNSEE COMMUNITY INC
Contact: KIMBERLY VELE
(715) 7934387
kimberly.vele@mohicannsn.gov
Project Title: StockbridgeMunsee Net
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The StockbridgeMunsee Community proposes to create StockbridgeMunsee Net a next
generation fiberoptic and wireless broadband network for the purpose of making broadband
Internet access available to not only its 51 tribal businesses, but also to 231 households currently
unserved and/or underserved by broadband on the StockbridgeMunsee tribal land(s) in rural
Wisconsin. The StockbridgeMunsee Tribe will deploy stateoftheart 4th generation WIMAX
technology to create a profitable and affordable canopy wireless Internet access offering, and will
contract with a wholesale CLEC or ILEC for its wholesale Internet backhaul requirements.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: TENNESSEE TELEPHONE COMPANY INC
(608) 6644114
Project Title: Tennessee Telephone Company: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Proposed Project Area: Alabama, Tennessee
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Tennessee Telephone Company, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring high
Page 766 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: TIPTON TELEPHONE COMPANY INC
(608) 6644114
Project Title: Tipton Telephone Company, Inc.: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Tipton Telephone Company, Inc., a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring high
Page 767 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: TOWNSHIP TELEPHONE COMPANY, INC
(608) 6644114
Project Title: Township Telephone Company, Inc.: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Township Telephone Company, Inc., a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring
Page 768 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: TRICOUNTY TELEPHONE COMPANY INC
(608) 6644114
gra@tdstelecom.com
Project Title: TriCounty Telephone Company, Inc.: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: TriCounty Telephone Company, Inc., a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring
Page 769 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: UTELCO, LLC
(608) 6644114
Project Title: UTELCO, LLC: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: UTELCO, LLC, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring highspeed DSL
broadband service to unserved establishments within its rural service territory, which is
Page 770 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: WAUPACA, CITY OF
Contact: HENRY VELEKER
(715) 2584411
barpke@cityofwaupaca.org
Project Title: WOL.net Broadband Expansion Project
Description: Our project seeks to expand the existing WaupacaOnLine.net (WOL.net) wireless network in order
to provide affordable broadband services to 650 customers in the Waupaca area. The project
consists of the construction of 29 Point of Presence (POP) locations and necessary
appurtenances, customer premise equipment (CPE), network upgrades and one pickup truck w/
towbehind lift.
Page 771 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: WEST PENOBSCOT TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY, THE
(608) 6644114
gra@tdstelecom.com
Project Title: West Penobscot Telephone and Telegraph Co: Broadband project to serve rural unserved
establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The West Penobscot Telephone and Telegraph Company, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom,
proposes a project to bring highspeed DSL broadband service to unserved establishments within
its rural service territory, which is comparable to the DSL service provided in its more populated
areas. The network is also engineered so that it can be easily upgraded at a reasonable cost to
meet future needs.
Page 772 of 776
Broadband USA
Applicant: WYANDOTTE TELEPHONE COMPANY
(608) 6644114
gra@tdstelecom.com
Project Title: Wyandotte Telephone Company: Broadband project to serve rural unserved establishments
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: Wyandotte Telephone Company, a subsidiary of TDS Telecom, proposes a project to bring high
Page 773 of 776
Broadband USA
Wyoming
Applicant: CHUGWATER TELEPHONE COMPANY, THE
Contact: GREG CASHNER
(307) 4223535
greg.cashner@chugtelco.com
Project Title: Chugwater Rural Broadband
Description: Deploy broadband to rural residents and businesses using a mixture of FTTH and ADSL 2+
technologies.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: UNION TELEPHONE COMPANY
Contact: JOHN G. WOODY
(307) 7826131
johnw@unionwireless.com
Project Title: Rural Wyoming Broadband from Union Wireless
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: The Wyoming Broadband Project will expand the footprint of the Union Wireless network to cover
areas of Wyoming that are currently unserved and underserved with high speed wireless data
services. This network, when funded, will utilize the latest in 3G technology. We will expand on our
current wireless network, adding locations to expand coverage and deploying the next generation
in high speed wireless complimenting our extensive wireless coverage. This project will address
the needs of the citizens of Wyoming by providing advanced high speed service to currently
unavailable in the rural areas to Residents, Businesses, Educational Institutions, Health Care,
State Transportation, Public Safety Officials and Native Americans in these critical uncovered
service areas. As a Wyoming company with a heritage of connecting our residents, we are
uniquely positioned to make this happen.
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Broadband USA
Applicant: VIKING BROADBAND INC
Contact: ELIZABETH VAALA
(307) 7527092
evaala@vikingcable.net
Project Title: VIKING's East of Billings Fiber Future
Loan Request: $0.00
Description: VIKING Broadband is poised to roll out fiber to customers in the rural area east of Billings, MT â€“
East Billings, Shepherd, Huntley, Worden, Ballantine and Pompeys Pillar. The proposed funded
service area is a growing UNSERVED area surrounding these six communities. The communities
of Huntley, Worden and Ballantine are excluded from the proposed funded service area because
they are already SERVED with broadband by VIKING and the local telephone cooperative.
VIKING, a cable operator with a foundation of services including video, data and voice, is
proposing to extend its network over fiber outward into the growing area surrounding these
communities. The PFSA represents a unique opportunity where many ingredients come together
for a project shovel ready and in the spirit of the ARRA, bringing broadband to unserved
customers, stimulating the economy, and building sustainable infrastructure.
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Issue Date: April 16, 2010

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