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Nearly $16 Million For US Rural Broadband Service To Clarion, Eagle Grove, Goldfield, Humboldt And Renwick, North America-USA August news

Published online: 31/08/2007

Nearly $16 Million For US Rural Broadband Service To Clarion, Eagle Grove, Goldfield, Humboldt And Renwick, North America-USA

Mr. Krikke, Ricardo

Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) today announced a loan of $15,902,000 in rural development funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for broadband access in Clarion, Eagle Grove, Goldfield, Humboldt and Renwick. Harkin is Chairman of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee.


“In the 21st century, high-speed internet access is a basic, essential utility. Farmers and others need it to do business. Students in rural America need it to do their homework and connect to the rest of the world. Yet for far too long connecting rural America to broadband access was wrought with obstacles,” said Harkin. “This loan helps to remove some of those obstacles and I look forward to the improvements it will generate.”

Harkin developed the current Broadband program in the 2002 farm bill and has worked to improve its implementation. He hopes to provide continued support and improvements to USDA Broadband assistance in the upcoming farm bill.

The Goldfield Telephone Company, Goldfield Access Network and Goldfield Communications, Inc. will use the rural development funding to:

  • Upgrade existing systems to a fiber-to-the home (FTTH) system to serve the communities of Goldfield, Clarion, Eagle Grove, Humboldt and Renwick.
  • Connect 730 new voice, 860 new data and 1,989 new video subscribers.
  • Install an Ethernet switch FTTH electronics in the Goldfield central office.
  • Enable the company to provide high speed data, voice and video services to approximately 1,858 high-speed data subscribers, 4,169 voice subscribers and 2,221 video subscribers in the communities.

(Source: All American Patriots, 21 August 2007)