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The Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service awarded Pine Cellular Phones Inc. $24,767,780 on May 6, 2026, under the Rural eConnectivity Pilot Program (CFDA 10.752), a Project Grant supporting broadband infrastructure deployment in rural areas.

Pine Cellular Phones Inc. will deploy fiber optic and ethernet cabling, procure networking equipment, and deliver broadband service to residences, businesses, schools, libraries, and healthcare facilities in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, targeting the program's minimum connectivity standard of 25 megabits per second downstream and 3 megabits per second upstream. Performance runs through May 6, 2028. The Rural eConnectivity Pilot Program finances broadband expansion in rural areas without sufficient existing access through loans, grants, and loan/grant combinations, scoring grant and combination applications on rurality, the count of farms and businesses served, service performance, state broadband activities, and presence of tribal lands.

Pine Cellular Phones Inc. is a for-profit corporation headquartered in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, operating as a prime recipient. The company has received six federal grants from the Rural Utilities Service since 2019, all targeted at rural broadband expansion in Broken Bow, with combined obligated dollars of approximately $49 million.