{"id":2392,"date":"2023-12-22T10:13:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T16:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctcfiber.net\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2023-12-22T10:15:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T16:15:41","slug":"cunningham-telephone-cable-receives-50-grant-to-help-extend-fiber-outside-of-concordia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctcfiber.net\/cunningham-telephone-cable-receives-50-grant-to-help-extend-fiber-outside-of-concordia\/","title":{"rendered":"Cunningham Telephone & Cable receives 50% grant to help extend fiber outside of Concordia"},"content":{"rendered":"

May 20th<\/sup>, Governor Laura Kelly announced the second-year awards for the Kansas Department of Commerce Broadband Acceleration grants.\u00a0 Cunningham Telephone & Cable will be one of ten companies to receive funding to help bring more broadband to Kansas.\u00a0 The Cunningham Telephone & Cable award is for a rural Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) build outside of Concordia.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are super excited to be one of the awardees,\u201d says Brent Cunningham, Vice President and General Manager of Cunningham Telephone and Cable.\u00a0 \u201cWe had sent in four applications for rural broadband; one for Jewell, Mitchell, Republic and Cloud counties.\u00a0 Each was about a million-dollar total project and would have extended broadband into rural areas of the respective counties.\u00a0 Our Cloud County application made it to the final round and then we found out recently it will be awarded.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Kansas Department of Commerce (KDoC) Broadband Acceleration Grant is a 50\/50 matching grant.\u00a0 Fifty percent funding for a proposed broadband build in an eligible area will be funding by the KDoC and the other fifty percent by the broadband company.\u00a0 Eligible areas are based on previous mapping of broadband availability and the proposed area\u2019s needs.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach county had a little bit different area that was eligible to apply for a KDoC broadband grant.\u00a0 For instance, in Mitchell County, it was a large area west of highway 14.\u00a0 In Cloud County, the eligible area was about a 2-mile circle surrounding Concordia.\u00a0 We put together project proposals based on the eligible areas of this round of grants.\u00a0 We applied where we could get more broadband in the rural areas of the counties to fill in gaps,\u201d says Cunningham.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the final round interviews with the Department of Commerce committee, one of the keys to our Cloud application making it so far was that we already had an existing fiber broadband project in Concordia.\u00a0 This grant will allow us to extend that existing fiber project outside the city limits into the less populated rural area,\u201d continues Cunningham.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ll be able to do this project more efficiently than anyone else since we\u2019ve already got a lot of the core pieces in place with our current Concordia Fiber-to-the-Home build.\u00a0 We can in-turn leverage that existing infrastructure and extend service outside of town.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother key piece is our partnership with North Central Kansas Community Network aka NCKCN Wireless.\u00a0 By partnering with NCKCN Wireless to put up antennas at the edges of our fiber network, they can push broadband deeper into harder-to-reach rural areas.\u00a0 It\u2019s a one-two punch that helps get more broadband to more people,\u201d says Cunningham.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese grants help make rural broadband projects feasible.\u00a0 In rural areas, where customer locations could be miles apart, it takes outside help to make a business case to serve them.\u00a0 That\u2019s why they are underserved today,\u201d states Cunningham.\u00a0 \u201cUnderground fiber construction can cost upwards of $30,000 per mile.\u00a0 While a mile of fiber inside of Concordia could pass 150 homes or businesses, in the rural areas that might only be 5 or less homes.\u00a0 We can make a business case in town for our FTTH builds and are doing that completely out of our own pocket.\u00a0 Outside of town, even if every home available took service and for 20 years straight, it still wouldn\u2019t break even.\u00a0 And there\u2019s still ongoing operating costs to run the network too.\u00a0 Having broadband grants or other outside funding to kick-start broadband construction in rural areas is the only way it\u2019s feasible.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are getting started immediately and will have until October 31st<\/sup>, 2023, to have construction finished.\u00a0 It\u2019s going to be a busy year and a half.\u00a0 We already have a lot of existing construction projects going.\u00a0 Hopefully supply chains loosen up some more so that we can get all the equipment we need on-time\u2026or in-time,\u201d smiles Cunningham.<\/p>\n

\u201cCustomer pricing will be the same as our in-town Concordia plans and we\u2019ll be able to offer the same level of services.\u00a0 Residential internet will range from $40 to $99.\u00a0 $99 will get you a Gig of internet speed in both the up and download.\u00a0 Business Class packages range from $100 for 250x250Mbps up to $300 for 1GbpsX1Gbps for our regular packages.\u00a0 If business customers have greater needs than 1Gbps, we can go higher, but those I mentioned are what we\u2019ve seen most businesses order,\u201d says Cunningham.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ll be able to offer our streaming TV service and phone services over the new fiber also.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019ll be a push for sure given the short 18-month timeline for a project this size.\u00a0 Hopefully by mid-summer next year we\u2019ll be turning up the first customers on the new builds outside of town,\u201d says Cunningham.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of irons in the fire right now but didn\u2019t want to pass up on the chance to do more for the area through the Dept of Commerce grant program.\u00a0 Our future plans are to continue applying for grants to keep extending the fiber availability farther and farther out into the county\u2019s rural areas until the entire county has great broadband access.\u201d<\/p>\n

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