More than $53 million in middle-mile broadband expansion grants were recommended for approval this week by the Oklahoma Broadband Governing Board.
The Oklahoma middle-mile projects, recommended for approval by the Grants Review Committee, are funded by the American Rescue Plan Act’s State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds.
Several additional projects were recommended for approval “should funding become available.”
By provider, the Oklahoma middle-mile broadband grants recommended for approval are:
- Hilliary: $40,874,734.10 for Alex, Burns Flat, Cordell, Daisy, Duke North, Duke South, Gracemont, Granite, and Talihina
- Indian Electric Cooperative Inc.: $4,375,043.34 for Cleveland to Osage, Naval Reserve to Pawya, Pawya to Pawhuska, and Red Rock to Pawnee
- Pine Telephone: $2,716,000 for Latimer County
- Resound Networks: $1,499,818.54 for Choctaw West, Jackson-Harmon, and Kay-Osage
- Trace Fiber Networks, LLC: $3,918,452.23: Asher, Garvin, and Pontotoc
Resound Networks’ Kay-Osage project was recommended for a $376,867.13 award, though the amount requested was $497,288.37.
Also by provider, those recommended for approval if future funding is available include:
- Centranet, LLC: $43,215,216 for Oklahoma Star Network and Shawnee-Stroud-Stillwater
- Chisholm Broadband: $6,530,472 for Alva-Medford-Tonkawa, Besie-New Cordel-Rocky, Canute-Burns Flat, Choctaw County, Coal County, Data Center Capacity, Hammon-Leedy, Jet-Nash, Lamont-Hunter, Latimer County, Magnum-Eldorado, Medford-Deer Creek, Roger Mills-Taloga, Sayre-Elk City, and Thomas-Custer City-Arapaho
- Cox Communications: $3,891,218.26 for Haskell to Okmulgee, Mounds to Okmulgee, and Washington County to Rogers County
- CVEC Fiber, LLC: $1,719,564 for CVEC Fiber – Middle Mile
- Dobson Technologies: $1,090,935.42 for Binger to Hinton, Bristow to Okmulgee, and Red Oak to Talihina
- FiberLink, LLC: $1,883,609.24 for Creek County
- Hilliary: $3,733,731.68 for Stonewall
- MBO Video, LLC: $14,586,343.80 for MBO Project (“MMMBOP”)
- Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education: $29,800,700 for Oklahoma Community Anchor Network (OCAN)
- Pioneer Telephone Cooperative: $2,575,380 for Bradley/Lindsay, Cashion/Piedmont, and El Reno Middle Mile
- Plains Internet, LLC: $10,195,328.00 for Middle Mile South and Plains Internet
- Resound Networks: $13,103,583.50 for Beaver-Texas, Bryan-Marshall, Caddo-Grady-Canadian, Comanche-Grady-Stephens, Craig-Ottawa-Rogers, Custer-Washita-Caddo, Grant-Garfield-Kingfisher, Greer-Kiowa-Washita, Logan-Oklahoma-Cleveland, McClain-Garvin, and Woodward-Harper-Ellis
- Terral Telephone Company: $3,369,294.25 for HWY 32
- Totah Communications, Inc.: $1,877,727 for OK SLFRF MM Grant
- Trace Fiber Networks, LLC.: $5,074,064.16 for Johnston-Bryan, Marshall County
- Wyandotte Telephone Company: $12,532,608 for Wyandotte
- Zayo Group, LLC: $13,991,876.18 for North Tulsa and South Tulsa
Additional information about Oklahoma broadband, including state funding resources, grants made, state-specific coverage, and more can be found on the Telecompetitor Broadband Nation webpage for the state.
