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• W-2021-07 - South Park Telephone - Burland Subdivision Complete (awarded $2,659,072.13)
• W-2021-12 - xBar7 Communications - Longmont Dam Rd (awarded $71,283.00)
• W-2021-14 - Hilltop Broadband - Platteville FTTP Project (awarded $1,171,201.00) 
• W-2021-15 - Yampa Valley Electric Association - South Stagecoach and Lynx Pass: (awarded $1,147,481.25)

• S-2021-01 - Range - Little Snake River FTTP (awarded $686,000)
• S-2021-06 - Delta Montrose Electric Association – UnCompaghre (awarded $852,729.53)
• S-2021-07 - RTC - Kim, Colorado (awarded $244,833.40) (awarded by RoFR)
• S-2021-08 - Yampa Valley Electric Association - Willow Creek Pass (awarded $126,225.00)
• S-2021-14 - Clearnetworx - Elk Meadows (awarded $1,107,700.81)
• S-2021-15 - Viaero Wireless - Truckton/Rush Project (awarded $2,451,165.89)
• S-2021-17 - Delta Montrose Electric Association - Black Canyon (awarded $1,008,586.80)
• S-2021-38 - Arbor Mesh - Lower Blue Valley Deployment (awarded $164,545.83)

Grant # W-2020-02 Jade Communications - Hwy 12 Corridor FTTH Project

Award amount: $2,658,686.46.

This project aims to bring FTTH service to 386 addresses (366 households, 20 commercial), or 918 people, to addresses south of La Veta, along the Hwy 12 corridor, and the village of Cuchara in Huerfano County. 

Grant # W-2020-06 YVEA and Luminate Fiber - YVEA Hahns Peak & Seedhouse Road Gigabit Broadband

Award amount:  $1,455,112.

This project intends to build FTTH infrastructure to make available the opportunity to purchase up to 1000 Mbps download and upload speeds to 280 locations (260 residential, 0 vacant, 20 commercial), or 657 people, to the area of Hahns Peak Village, the greater area around Steamboat Lake State Park, and Seedhouse Road in Routt County. 

Grant # W-2020-03 DMEA and Elevate - Elevate North Mesa: Gigabit Broadband for the New Rural Economy

Award amount: $1,431,083.

This project aims to bring FTTH service to 438 households (427 residential, 11 commercial), or 1,426 people, to the area of North Mesa in Montrose County. 

Grant # W-2020-08 Colorado Central Telecom, Inc. - Chalk Creek Canyon

Award amount: $542,790.

This project aims to bring FTTH or Fixed Wireless service to 48 households (48 residential, 0 vacant, 0 commercial), or 105 residents in Deer Valley in Chaffee County. 

Grant # W-2020-14 Force Broadband - Black Forest 2

Award amount: $1,237,566.04.

This project aims to bring FTTH service to 612 households (579 residential, 0 vacant, 33 commercial), or 1511 residents in the Black Forest in El Paso County. 

Grant # 2018-02 Jade Communications LLC

Award amount: $115,497.52

The project will provide fiber connections to 14 addresses in the Riverdance Ranch subdivision north of Alamosa.

Grant # 2018-01 Jade Communications

Award amount: $507,094.90

The proposed project will fiber connections to 93 addresses in San Antonio, CO, a small community roughly 4.5 miles south of Antonito, CO.

Grant # 2018-05 DMEA

Award amount: $2,334,987.75

The Project consists of the creation of Gigabit Broadband Service within Delta and Montrose Counties to provide access to 388 households, both residential and commercial.

Grant # 2018-06 DMEA

Award amount: $759,985

The Project consists of the creation of Gigabit Broadband Service within West Spring Creek to provide access to high-speed broadband in 271 households, both residential and commercial.

Grant # 2018-07 Global Broadband Corporation

Award amount: $567,031.88.

Global Broadband Corporation intends to provide broadband internet access to 797 unique residential addressed in the Crystal Lake subdivision in the Red Feather Lakes region of Larimer county.

Grant # 2018-08 SECOM

Award amount: $178,384.31

The project will provide fiber to the premise service to 125 addresses in the Town of Pritchett located in Baca County.

Grant # 2018-14 Viaero Wireless

Amount awarded: $660,290

This project will enable the build out of one new tower, enhanced with 3.65 equipment to provide broadband at the required speeds of at least 25Mbps down and 3Mbps upload to this unserved area. Additionally, this project will provide for infrastructure upgrades on four existing tower sites, with a fiber installation to provide redundancy and backhaul within Logan County. The total number of street addresses the will receive broadband service is 105 with 79 residential and 26 businesses.

Grant # 2017-12 SECOM

Award amount:$1,193,855.09

The project will provide service up to 200/200 Mbps via a fiber to the premise network in Las Animas, Springfield and Holly. The total residents that will receive service is 2,493 and the total business is 205.The total population that will receive Broadband service resulting from this project? Las Animas: 2,207, Springfield: 1,378, Holly: 757.

Grant # 2017-01 DMEA 

Award amount: $2,646,192

The project will fund build out of three service areas: Northwest Paonia, Olathe, and the Happy Canyon area outside of the City of Montrose. The project will provide fiber to the premise broadband service to 1,731 residential addresses and 213 business addresses. The project area has a population of 4,159. There are 40 “community anchor institutions” that will receive service as part of the project. Much of the fiber will be located on existing DMEA utility poles and conduit.

Grant # 2017-02 NE Colorado Cellular, Inc. dba Viaero Wireless

Award amount: $1,038,397

The awardee will construct two new towers and upgrade equipment on three existing towers to provide service in Arriba, Genoa and rural Lincoln County. The awardee will provide last-mile service via fixed wireless and install fiber to the towers for backhaul.

Grant # 2017-08 Jade Communications LLC

Award amount: $2,372,817.10

The awardee will construct a fiber to the premise project in Conejos County spanning approximately 20 miles along CO 17 west of US 285 and Antonito. The project would provide service to 829 residential and 34 businesses and community anchor institutions addresses.

Grant # 2017-03 San Luis Valley Rural Electric Cooperative (Ciello)

Award amount: $700,402

The awardee will provide broadband service over a fiber to the home network utilizing existing electric utility poles in rural Mineral and Hinsdale Counties along CO Highway 149. The project would serve 278 home and 20 business addresses.

Grant # 2017-04 Inventive Wireless of Nebraska, LLC dba Vistabeam

Award amount: $260,313

The awardee will construct eight new towers and use three existing towers to provide broadband service over the 5ghz unlicensed spectrum. The project would provide service to 639 residential addresses and 82 business addresses in Jackson County.

Grant # 2017-05 Brainstorm Internet Inc.

Award amount: $268,500

The awardee will extend a fiber from the Purgatory Ski Area approximately 4 miles to Cascade Village, a development with 199 residential addresses and the Benchmark Events and Cultural Center. Last-mile service would be provided using fiber with 1 Gbps symmetrical service.

Grant # 16-0083: Nucla-Naturita Telephone Company

Award amount: $43,334

The project is a microwave enhancement of the grantee’s Gobblers Knob site located approximately 6 miles west of Nucla, to the San Miguel Basin area, via the grantee’s microwave site at Pony Draw. The enhancement will be accomplished with a 2 hop microwave capable of 700 Mbps. The microwave will connect to an Adtran TA5000 DSL shelf supplying the 48 connected households with broadband internet access capable of at least 25Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload and with latency levels that allow for real-time communications. Grantee will purchase, install, test and operate the equipment.

Grant # 16-0084: NE Colorado Cellular, Inc. dba Viaero Wireless

Award amount: $395,452

The grantee will construct two 195 foot towers designated as Sheridan Lake North, located approximately 9.52 miles Northwest of Sheridan Lake and Sheridan Lake South, located approximately 10.4 miles South of the Sheridan Lake. The grantee must obtain suitable land to purchase or lease for the tower sites including obtaining all necessary zoning and permitting, including FAA clearances and FCC licenses for the microwave backhaul. 3.65 GHz TDD base stations and associated antenna and transmission lines will be installed on each tower of the new towers and on each the existing Towner and Sheridan operated by the grantee. Microwave radios and associated antenna and transmission lines will be installed on each of the new towers. The grantee must test all installed equipment to ensure proper operation and provide last-mile broadband service of at least 25 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload with latency that enables realtime communications to the 334 square mile service area.

Grant # 16-0085: Chaffee County Telecom LLC, dba Colorado Central Telecom

Award amount: $288,338

The project requires the construction of two new tower sites: One at the Granite heliport and another at Sugarloaf Mountain near Turquoise Lake. The Granite heliport site will feature a 40-foot tower engineered by SkyTower, Inc. The tower will be triangular with a 40‐inch span between each leg, anchored by a concrete base or drilling into bedrock. The Sugarloaf Mountain site will also be engineered by SkyTower, Inc. Lake County has dropped the requirement that the Sugarloaf tower be disguised as a mining headframe. In addition to those primary hops, Colorado Central Telecom will install micropop repeater sites as needed to cover areas not serviced by the primary towers at Granite and Sugarloaf.<br><br>Colorado Central Telecom will incorporate both 4G LTE and Wi‐Fi 802.11ac MIMO in its last‐mile fixed wireless infrastructure. Grantee’s last‐mile microwave links will be backhauled through the Granite heliport site. From there, the Granite site will be backhauled to Colorado Central Telecom’s Methodist Mountain tower using a licensed Trango GigaPlus 2+0 microwave radio. Backhaul for the Methodist tower can be routed to either Center, Salida or Nathrop via a licensed microwave Trango GigaPlus 2+0 radio. Grantee will purchase, install and test all equipment to ensure broadband access of at least 25Mbps download and 3Mbps upload with sufficient latency to allow for real-time communications in the service area.

Grant # 16-0086: CenturyLink Inc.

Award amount: $299,156

The grantee will upgrade (5) Digital Subscriber Line Access Muiltiplexer’s (DSLAM) located in Keenesburg. Grantee will install fiber to the DSLAM’s and test all equipment to ensure Broadband internet access with at least 25 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload and sufficient latency to allow for real-time communications to the last mile connections identified in the Right of First Refusal Written Plan.

Grant # 16-0087: PC Telcorp, Inc., dba PC Telcom

Award amount: $55,400

Grantee will replace existing Alvarion wireless access points and antennas with Telrad LTE wireless access points and antennas on the “Sedgwick Tower” and “Julesburg Tower.” Work will include running new cables, installing equipment, adjusting equipment and testing equipment to ensure service of at least 25 Mbps downstream and 3 Mbps upstream speeds.

Grant # 16-0088: Optimus Communications LLC

Award amount: $112,500

Grantee will purchase and install wireless microwave backhaul equipment at the Optimus Communications LLC main office in Grand Junction. This equipment will connect to new microwave backhaul equipment purchased and installed by grantee on the existing Palisade Point tower on the Grand Mesa. The Palisade Point equipment will connect to the Cable Head End building in Collbran CO. Microwave equipment will be purchased installed at the Cable Head End connecting the backhaul to the existing cable infrastructure owned by the grantee. Grantee will use Cisco routing equipment and DOCSIS 3.0 system for internet distribution over the cable infrastructure Award. Grantee will purchase, build and install a solar powered communications site with a microwave link from Palisade Point to the Vega tower. Grantee will purchase and install three 120 degree 5.8Ghz antenna and three 5.8 Ghz radios at the Vega tower. Grantee will purchase and install an additional microwave link from the Cable Head End to the Plateau City tower. Grantee will purchase and install four 90 degree 5.8Ghz antenna and 12 AC 5.8 Ghz radios at the Cable Head End tower and the Plateau City tower. Grantee will purchase, install and test all equipment to ensure 25Mbps download, 3Mbps upload and latency sufficient to enable real-time communications is provided over both the cable and wireless infrastructure.

Grant # 16-0089: CenturyLink Inc.  

Award amount:$841,200

The grantee will upgrade eight Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer's (DSLAM). Grantee will install fiber to the DSLAM’s and test all equipment and ensure Broadband internet access with at least 25 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload and sufficient latency to allow for real-time communications to the last mile connections identified in the Right of First Refusal Written Plan. At least 750 of the locations served must have availability of speeds of 100/10, at least 100 of the locations served must have availability of speeds of 40/20, and at least 140 of the locations served must have availability of speeds of 40/5.

Grant # 16-0090: Futurum Communications Corporation, dba Forethought.net, Brainstorm Internet 

Award amount: $70,103

From the CenturyLink Fiber Demarc, grantee will install fiber through two Ski Cooper buildings, trenching from edge of Ski Cooper building to Lift Hut and through existing conduit from Hut to the Lift towers and aerial on existing cable path on towers to Lift House. At the Lift House grantee will construct a mount, engineered by manufacturer to the Lift House infrastructure. On this structure grantee will install a 4ft. Dish pointing to Red Cliff. At Red Cliff a reciprocal licensed radio will be installed on 80ft tower being built by the Town of Red Cliff. Grantee will deploy LTE Fixed wireless radio equipment from the Red Cliff tower. LTE fixed wireless will deliver 25MB/5MB and potentially higher speeds as standard evolves. Grantee will purchase, install and test all equipment ensuring broadband internet service to the Town of Red Cliff of at least 25 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload with latency sufficient to enable real time communications.