农业部拨款1700万美元扩 Oregon 州乡村宽带 Warm Springs 保留地150余户将接入高速互联网
Portland—美国农业部（USDA）农村发展署 Oregon 州主任 Jim Carmack 11月9日宣布，该署通过 ReConnect 计划向 Warm Springs Telecom 发放1,700万美元补助，在 Oregon 州 Warm Springs 保留地扩大高速互联网接入。
Warm Springs 电信公司由 Warm Springs 部落联盟拥有。这笔投资将以架空光纤为主，把高速互联网送到保留地150余户家庭；公司还将新建一处运营设施，为安保、仓储与员工办公提供空间。农业部表示，项目地处 Jefferson 县与 Wasco 县的乡村与难抵达地区，建成后将扩大当地经济机会，并改善公共安全响应、教育与远程医疗接入。
Carmack 说，高速互联网是通往机会的门户，这项宣布把机会带到 Warm Springs 保留地数百个家庭身边。Warm Springs Telecom 首席执行官兼总经理 Tim York 说，这笔补助不只是把光纤宽带扩到最偏远的社区之一，还让公司得以建起一座现代化的电信设施，作为几代人技术成长与创新的基础。
该公司申请补助时得到总部位于 Oregon 的 Rural Prosperity Partners 的技术援助；该机构受农业部资助推动全州高速互联网扩张，已协助 Oregon 乡村网络商取得逾4,400万美元资金。农业部的 ReConnect 计划以贷款、补助及贷补组合的方式，支持在宽带不足的乡村地区部署高速互联网。
（来源：美国农业部）
USDA Awards $17 Million ReConnect Grant to Warm Springs Telecom for Broadband Expansion in Rural Oregon
PORTLAND, Ore. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development office in Oregon will invest $17 million through a ReConnect Program grant to Warm Springs Telecom to expand high-speed internet access on the Warm Springs Reservation, Oregon State Director Jim Carmack announced on November 9.
Warm Springs Telecommunications Company is owned by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. The investment will deploy mostly aerial fiber to bring high-speed internet to more than 150 households on the reservation, and the company will also build a new operations facility with space for security, storage and employees. USDA said the project, in rural and hard-to-serve parts of Jefferson and Wasco counties, will expand economic opportunity and improve public safety response, education and telemedicine access.
Carmack said high-speed internet is a gateway to opportunity and that the announcement brings those opportunities closer to hundreds of families on the reservation. Warm Springs Telecom CEO and General Manager Tim York said the award goes beyond extending fiber broadband to one of the most remote communities, allowing the company to establish a modern telecommunications facility as a foundation for generations of technological growth.
The company received technical assistance from Rural Prosperity Partners, headquartered in Oregon, which has helped rural Oregon internet providers secure more than $44 million with USDA support. USDA Rural Development's ReConnect Program offers loans, grants and loan-grant combinations to deploy high-speed internet in rural areas that lack sufficient broadband access.
(Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture)
来源：美国农业部
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