Arlington, Va., (October 17, 2024)—Members of NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association received over $150 million in loans and grants for broadband deployment through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) latest distribution of loan and grant funding under the ReConnect Program. The funding will support the delivery of 100 Mbps symmetrical or better broadband service to 7,667 people, 163 businesses, 790 farms and nine anchor institutions. In 2022 and 2023, USDA awarded over $2 billion to NTCA members through the ReConnect Program.
“We are thrilled to see many of NTCA’s community-based members being awarded funding through this latest round of ReConnect support,” said NTCA Executive Vice President Mike Romano. “No one is more dedicated to serving some of the most rural and remote areas of the country with future proof technologies, and USDA continues to recognize their hard work. On behalf of NTCA and our members, I look forward to continued collaboration with USDA and others to connect the unconnected in rural America and to keep them connected.”
The following NTCA members received funding through the most recent ReConnect loans and grants:
- Copper Valley Telecom (Valdez, Alaska)
- Mountain View Telephone Company (Mountain Home, Ark.)
- Table Top Telephone Company (Ajo, Ariz.)
- JBN Telephone Company Inc. (Holton, Kan.)
- 3 Rivers Communications (Fairfield, Mont.)
- WNM Communications (Silver City, N.M.)
- Roosevelt County Rural Telephone Cooperative (Yucca Telecom; Portales, N.M.)
- Clear Creek Communications (Oregon City, Ore.)
- Pembroke Telephone Cooperative (PemTel; Pembroke, Va.)
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NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association is the premier association representing more than 850 independent, community-based telecommunications companies that are leading innovative change in smart rural communities across America. In an era of transformative technological developments, regulatory challenges and marketplace competition, NTCA members are advancing efforts to close the digital divide by delivering robust and high-quality services over future-proof networks. Their commitment to building sustainable networks makes rural communities fertile ground for innovation in economic development, e-commerce, health care, agriculture and education, and it contributes billions of dollars to the U.S. economy each year. Visit us at www.ntca.org.
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