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Nevada County Fiber Inc. has made “some good progress” in connecting county residents to high speed fiber internet, according to its president Andrew Wilkinson. Last April the Nevada County Board of Supervisors awarded Nevada County Fiber $124,209 to help connect 25 households in the Red Dog/Banner Quaker Hill Road area to the fiber network as part of its Last Mile Broadband pilot program. “I’ve got about 9,000 feet of conduit in the ground and one person using it since October as a pilot,” Wilkinson said. Six more Nevada County households will have high speed fiber internet by the end of this month, according to Wilkinson. The project is broken down into individual phases which, according to its application timeline, could be complete by July. ....
FROM A RELEASE: Expediting access to the internet for all residents is the goal of Nevada County’s “Last-Mile Broadband Grant Program.” With the Board of Supervisors’ allocation of $250,000, county staff, working with the Sierra Business Council, seeks applications from internet service providers to support distance learning, remote working, and tele-medicine. “Reliable internet access is critical to our economy. Getting the community connected is a full-court press. With this Last-Mile grant, the 800 new connections out in Peardale, and the new Distance Learning Center & Youth Hub connecting students to the internet at the Fairgrounds, we’re expanding service where it’s most needed,” said Board Chair Dan Miller in a press release. ....