Oklahoma Board Advances More Than $53 Million in Middle-Mile Broadband Grants

More than $53 million in middle-mile broadband expansion grants were recommended for approval 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.”

• 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