Fiber-to-the-Home Project Wins USDA Broadband Stimulus Award

Rural Utilities Service Administrator Jonathan Adelstein announced a $63.8 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act award. The Kit Carson Electric Cooperative Fiber-to-the-Home project will deliver affordable broadband service to 29 communities comprised of approximately 20,500 households, 3,600 businesses and 183 critical community institutions, two Native American Pueblos within a 2,951 square mile, rural underserved area in Taos, Colfax and Rio Arriba counties.

The network spans 2400 miles. In all, $63.8 million in Recovery Act funds will be invested in the project. An additional $600,000 will come from private investment sources.