The purpose of the project is to enhance enmr telephone cooperative's existing network's infrastructure by creating alternate paths and increasing resiliency and bandwidth with upgrades and new…

Active Project Grant Awarded

Award ID
3540MM273
Recipient
Awarding agency
Obligated
$102,348,503

Award facts

Assistance listing
11.033 Middle Mile (Broadband) Grant Program
Completion date 68% complete
Funding
  • $49,858,624.00 Federal
  • $52,489,879.00 Non-federal
Funding agency
National Telecommunications and Information Administration Department of Commerce
Place of performance
Clovis, NM 88101, USA

Award details come from USAspending.gov.

Description

As the agency reported it.

Activities
Project will use fiber to build new and resilient middle mile network through unserved communities with a commitment to open access and carrier neutral non-discriminatory interconnect. The period of performance is expected to be 3 years.
Expected outcomes
The applicant has the following goals and deliverables for this project: 1. Construction of five new fiber segments to improve redundancy and decrease latency and upgrades to transport electronics throughout eastern new mexico and west texas. 2. Utilization of the existing central office (CO) and HUT assets to install and operate newly proposed transport electronics obviating the need to construct new COS and huts, further mitigating construction costs. 3. Increase bandwidth for the entire network from up to 800 gbps to up to 16 tbps allowing last mile providers to increase upload speeds for end-users, strengthen the network against single points of failure, and provide redundancy.
Intended beneficiaries
The areas that will benefit from this project include 29 new mexico and 20 texas counties, serving a socio-economically diverse population of 3.4 million residents and 63 community anchor institutions. The service region includes both urban and rural segments with population densities ranging from 0.1 per square mile (loving county, TX) and 0.3 (harding county, NM) to 582.5 (bernalillo county, NM) and 854.4 (EL paso county, TX). The project areas will benefit in the following ways: 1. Attracting additional last-mile providers to the unserved and underserved end-user locations along the route. 2. Extends broadband infrastructure to areas without access to last-mile high-speed terrestrial broadband providers. New mexico has the highest percentage of residents in the southwest without adequate broadband internet service with 22% of new mexico residents not having access to adequate broadband infrastructure. In at least five out of 33 new mexico counties, more than 40% of households do not have internet access at all. 3. Increasing competition in fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) end user marker by reducing costs to last-mile providers. 4. Improving redundancy between albuquerque and santa FE. 5. Introducing new high-capacity dwdm nodes to the less populated towns of raton and maxwell, new MEXICO6. Extending access to areas without current access to last-mile high-speed terrestrial broadband providers. 7. Increasing broadband upload and download speeds for end-users, allowing more ISP providers to participate in the market at a lower costs from increased capacity.
Subrecipient activities
The applicant will subaward funds to baca valley telephone company, INC. And delcom, INC. For the construction of network infrastructure in their respective service areas.

Quick answers

Who received award 3540MM273?

3540MM273 was awarded to Enmr Telephone Cooperative by National Institute of Standards and Technology (Department of Commerce) on June 15, 2023.

How much is award 3540MM273 worth?

$102,348,503 has been obligated on 3540MM273: $49,858,624 in federal funding and $52,489,879 in non-federal funding.

Which agency awarded 3540MM273?

National Institute of Standards and Technology (Department of Commerce) awarded 3540MM273, with funding from National Telecommunications and Information Administration (Department of Commerce).

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