"Digital 395" Broadband Project Awarded Funds

Much of the region between Carson City, Nevada and Barstow, California, has limited, insufficient broadband middle mile capabilities, dependent on decades-old telephone infrastructure, leaving wide swaths of the Eastern Sierra region of California and Nevada unserved. Digital 395 Middle Mile project will build a new 583-mile, fiber network that would mainly follow the U.S. Route 395 highway, a major transportation corridor between southern and northern California, which passes through Nevada. The project’s service area encompasses 36 communities, six Indian reservations and two military bases. Unused, high-capacity fiber will be available to the region’s last mile providers to expand or enhance service to households and businesses; as well as to government agencies or carriers seeking local or long-haul transport.
Digital 395 Middle Mile will also:

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Serve up to 237 committed community anchor institutions, including 35 public safety entities, 47 K-12 schools, 13 libraries, 2 community colleges, and 2 universities, the Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory, Caltech’s Owens Valley Radio Observatory, and White Mountain Research Station, 15 healthcare facilities and 104 government offices.

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Spur affordable broadband access for local consumers and businesses, including approximately 26,000 households and 2,500 businesses by enabling local Internet service providers to utilize the project’s open network. At least five existing broadband providers plan to utilize the middle mile network to expand their services.

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Enable access to educational, medical and commercial applications for isolated populations on six Indian reservations: Big Pine Paiute Tribe of the Owens Valley; Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone Reservation; Fort Independence Reservation; Benton Paiute Tribe; Bishop Paiute Tribe; Bridgeport Indian Colony.

This is great news for the Eastern Sierra and all who need access to high speed internet services.
Many businesses, and people who work from home, that couldn't consider Mammoth Lakes before due to the slow internet service can now reconsider moving their businesses and families to the area.
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