Project Title:
2021 Missouri's NTIA Covered Partnership
Funding Program:
Broadband Infrastructure Program
Project Purpose/Type:
The State of Missouri Department of Economic Development project is a last mile, fiber deployment across 12 counties: Butler, Marion, Shelby, Monroe, Jasper, Pulaski, Lincoln, St. Charles, St. Louis, Livingston, McDonald, and Boone. This application was submitted by the State of Missouri Department of Economic Development, who has entered into an eligible partnership with nine ISP companies. The project has been separated by the ISP companies that are servicing specific counties: Boycom Cablevision (Butler County), Chariton Valley Communications (Shelby, Marion, and Monroe Counties), Columbus Telephone Company (Jasper County), Gascosage Electric Cooperative (Pulaski County), Gateway Infrastructure (St. Charles & Lincoln Counties), Green Hills Telephone Company (Livingston County), Le-Ru Telephone Company (McDonald County), Socket Telecom LLC (Boone County), and Spectrum Mid-America LLC (St. Charles and St. Louis Counties). This project was designed to bring qualifying broadband to 13,544 unserved households with up to 1/1 Gbps service.
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Awardee:
Service Provider(s):
Project Service Area:
Rural areas within Butler, Marion, Shelby, Monroe, Jasper, Pulaski, Lincoln, St. Charles, St. Louis, Livingston, McDonald, and Boone Counties
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$42,241,427.11Funding Amount
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$62,762,546.47Total Project Cost
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$20,521,119.36Non-Federal Cost Share
The activities of each project are:
- The Boycom Cablevision project will perform new build to Stringtown in rural western Butler County. The project will serve 230 households, 18 businesses, and 2 community anchor institutions. The finished new build will host Fiber to the Home (FTTH) at speeds from 50 Mbps-1,000 Gbps ($69.95) to 1 Gbps-2,000 Gbps ($159.95).
- The Chariton Valley Communications- Clarence Zone 1 & 2 will deploy fiber optic broadband facilities to each location in Clarence, Missouri providing symmetrical broadband service from 100 Mbps ($47) to 1 Gbps ($97). The project will serve 73 households and 2 businesses.
The Chariton Valley Communications- Hannibal Zones 1 & 3 project will deploy fiber optic broadband facilities to each location in Hannibal, Missouri providing symmetrical broadband service from 100 Mbps ($47) to 1 Gbps ($97). The project will serve 518 households and 12 businesses, and 2 community anchor institutes. - The Chariton Valley Communications- Monroe City project will deploy fiber optic broadband facilities to each location in the area in and around Monroe City in Monroe County providing symmetrical broadband service from 100 Mbps ($47) to 1 Gbps ($97). The project will serve 45 households and 5 businesses.
- The Chariton Valley Communications- Palmyra Zones 1-4 project will deploy fiber optic broadband facilities to each location in Palmyra, Missouri located in Marion County, providing symmetrical broadband service from 100 Mbps ($47) to 1 Gbps ($97). The projects will serve 176 households, 10 businesses, and 2 community anchor institutions across the four zones.
- The Columbus Telephone Company project will construct forty-one mainline miles of fiber, OSP construction, electronics, install, cutover, and fiber drops to provide 50/50 Mbps ($50) to 1/1 Gbps ($84) broadband service with 4 ms latency in the city of Carl Junction, Missouri. The project will serve 3,105 households, 99 businesses, and 16 community anchor institutions.
- The Gascosage Electric Cooperative project will complete a FTTH expansion south of Dixon, Missouri to bring 1 Gbps symmetrical fiber internet utilizing Gigabit Passive Optical Network with 6 ms of latency to the area. Gascosage will provide symmetrical service of 100 Mbps ($59.99) to 1 Gbps ($99.99). The project will serve 719 households and 35 businesses.
- The Gateway Infrastructure project will deploy FTTH broadband service to Argentville, Josephville, Redemption Ranch, St. Paul, and Sunrise Park, MO to provide symmetrical service of 250 Mbps ($65) to 1 Gbps ($90) with less than 10 ms latency. The project will serve approximately 4,731 households and 121 businesses.
- The Green Hills Telephone Company project will deploy FTTH in the areas east of Chillicothe, MO to provide broadband service of 50/25 Mbps ($60) to 1 Gbps/200 Mbps ($150). The project will serve 295 households, 6 businesses, and 1 community anchor institutions.
The Le-Ru Telephone Company project will deliver FTTP over buried fiber facilities to offer speeds of 50/50 Mbps ($50) to 1/1 Gbps ($84) in the southeastern area of McDonald County. The project will serve 174 households and 5 businesses. - The Socket Telecom LLC project will deploy a FTTP network in the northwest Boone County area to provide broadband service of 1/1 Gbps ($60) with low latency of less than 100 ms. The project will serve 2,199households, 6 businesses, and 10 Community Anchor Institutions.
The Spectrum Mid-America LLC project will deploy 57.82 miles of fiber optics in an FTTP EPON network in three locations in St. Charles County and St. Louis County to provide broadband speeds of 30/4 Mbps ($17.99) to 1,000/500 Mbps ($134.99). The project will serve 491 households.
The projects within this application will provide broadband service to a total of 13,544 unserved households, 320 businesses, and 33 community anchor institutions across the state of Missouri.
Populations in predominantly rural areas of Missouri that are currently unserved by qualifying broadband access will be served by this project.
Boycom Cablevision, Chariton Valley Communications, Columbus Telephone Company, Gascosage Electric Company, Gateway Infrastructure, LLC, Green Hills Communications, Le-Ru Telephone Company, Socket Telecom, Spectrum are subrecipients of federal funds for this project. These broadband providers will deploy high speed internet within their designated service areas.