Project Title:
Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, TBCP Infrastructure Deployment and Use and Adoption Project
Funding Program:
Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program - Round 2
Project Purpose/Type:
This Infrastructure Deployment and Use and Adoption project will connect unserved Native Hawaiian households to high-speed internet; construct community digital innovation centers; allow the Department of Hawaiian Homelands (DHHL) to manage existing tower infrastructure; and construct conduit with fiber for DHHL homestead communities currently under construction.
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Awardee:
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$72,708,711.00Funding Amount
Infrastructure Deployment project activities include:
Installing approximately 66 miles of middle mile and last mile fiber;
Connecting approximately 150 Native Hawaiian households, 58 businesses, and 4 Community Anchor Institutions to qualifying broadband;
Constructing four community digital innovation centers to be used for broadband use and adoption and workforce development training courses; and
Maintaining wireless telecommunication towers across the Hawaiian Islands to ensure connection remains to currently served households.
Use and Adoption project activities include:
Offering broadband use and adoption classes to Native Hawaiian participants across several of the Hawaiian Islands; and
Providing in-person workforce development opportunities for more than 150 participants to equip them with expertise, hands-on experience, and certifications in the telecommunications sector.
This project will:
- Provide high-speed fiber broadband access at speeds of up to 1 Gbps symmetric for residential customers;
- Prepare future communities to have the ability to access high-speed internet under a dig once approach;
- Increase capability in telecommunications experience to assist in the sustainability of the Hawaiian telecommunications sector; and
- Improve broadband access by providing broadband use and adoption trainings and workforce development classes in a dedicated space.
The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands will install approximately 66 miles of middle-mile and last-mile fiber, connect about 150 Native Hawaiian households, 58 businesses, and 4 CAIs, construct four digital innovation centers, maintain telecommunication towers serving existing households, provide broadband use and adoption training, and deliver in-person telecommunications workforce development programs for more than 150 participants.