USDA is providing assistance to the following fiber-based telecommunications infrastructure projects through the Telecommunications Infrastructure Loan program.
- Arkansas — Arkwest Communications
$24,015,000 to establish a fiber-to-the-home network that will provide nearly 4,000 customers with voice, broadband and Internet television services, and make other system improvements. - Georgia — Pineland Telephone Cooperative
$16,498,000 to establish a fiber-to-the-premises network to deliver broadband to customers and make other system improvements. - Iowa — South Slope Cooperative Telephone Company
$14,690,000 to establish a fiber-to-the-premises network and make other system improvements. - Kentucky — Thacker-Grigsby Telephone Company
$9,595,000 to establish a fiber-to-the-premises network and retire its copper-based fixtures. - Missouri — Miller Telephone Company
$8,425,000 to establish a fiber-to-the-premises network and make other system improvements. - Okalhoma — Atlas Telephone Company
$5,064,000 to establish a fiber-to-the-home network to deliver broadband to customers and make other system improvements. - South Carolina — Palmetto Rural Telephone Cooperative
$23,898,000 to establish a fiber-to-the-premises network and make other system improvements. - Tennessee — Twin Lakes Telephone Cooperative Corporation
$29,753,000 to establish a fiber-to-the-premises network and make other system improvements. - Texas and Oklahoma — Santa Rosa Telephone Cooperative
$10,303,000 to complete the co-op's fiber-to-the-premises network in Texas and make other system improvements. - Utah and Idaho — Direct Communications Cedar Valley
$7,695,000 to establish a fiber-to-the-home network that will provide customers with voice, broadband and streaming video services, and make other system improvements. - Washington — Mashell Telecom (dba Rainier Connect)
$24,483,000 to establish a fiber-to-the-premises network and make other system updates to improve broadband delivery for customers.
TOTAL: 11 Projects = $174,419,000
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