SAN CARLOS APACHE TELECOMMUNICATIONS UTILITY

San Carlos Apache Telecommunications, Inc. (SCATUI) is proposing to provide high speed broadband technology to unserved and without high speed broadband access areas on the San Carlos Apache Reservation in Arizona. In the Bylas Proposed Funded Service Area (PFSA), residents are being required to relocate their homes to a different area due to uncontrollable circumstances. The vicinity of their current home locations in relation to the railroad track and a flood zone are both contributing to the required relocation of these homes. This grant is crucial in providing these customers with broadband internet and phone service which SCATUI would not be able to provide otherwise. Due to the fact that SCATUI is the only fixed terrestrial telecommunication utility company on the reservation, no other company will be able to provide these residents with the desperately needed telecommunication services. This presents a great challenge for both the residents and SCATUI. Within the San Carlos service area, SCATUI is planning to provide Fiber To The Premise (FTTP) services to five new communities, a new Junior High School, an existing High School, a hospital, and multiple doctor facilities that are also currently unserved. These areas are very similar in terms of telecommunication needs as the Bylas residents. SCATUI will have great difficulty in providing this necessary utility service to these areas without the aid of this broadband initiative program. Also, as a part of this PFSA, SCATUI is proposing to build five new tower sites to provide broadband internet service to very remote areas of the reservation using microwave radio technology.

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