Project Title:
NTIA Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program
NTIA Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program
Funding Program:
Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program - Round 1
Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program - Round 1
Project Purpose/Type:
This Broadband Infrastructure Deployment project will strengthen broadband connectivity for Tribal citizens and households living in the proposed service area in the Grand Traverse Band Peshawbestown reservation.
State(s):
Michigan
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$500,000.00Funding Amount
The project will implement the following activities aimed at addressing critical challenges faced by the Native Americans in the Tribal service area:
- Extend 4.5 miles of fiber optic infrastructure, reaching 84 unserved tribal households; and,
- Installing new fiber optic infrastructure via underground conduit to strengthen resiliency and operations.
Extend fiber optic infrastructure to provide qualifying broadband service to 84 unserved Tribal households.
Unserved tribal citizens residing on the Grand Traverse Band reservation.