Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced new Recovery Act broadband infrastructure projects including an award to the Warm Springs Telecommunications Company (WSTC), a wholly owned enterprise of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon, for a 50% loan and 50% grant package. The $5.4 million package will be used by the newly formed WSTC to launch their reservation-wide broadband company. This award will enable the company to build out a hybrid fiber/wireless network throughout the Reservation that will provide all residents, businesses and government agencies on the reservation with high-speed broadband services, as well as basic telephone and eventually, video programming.....

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