Washington State Department of Commerce

This project has three prongs: a last-mile fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) that will serve 100% of the unserved households in the service areas, a middle mile infrastructure that will connect rural houses to local ISPs, and radio arrays for wireless broadband connectivity to homes and farms. The broadband service providers will deploy fiber optic network to all five service areas with qualifying broadband internet service. All FTTH projects will utilize fiber with GPON installations that will provide speeds of 1 Gbps symmetrical with latency at or under 80 ms. The City of Ellensburg will build wireless broadband radio sites at two water wells. Five miles of 288-count fiber will be laid from the wells to connect to the city’s existing fiber network. DNG will deploy an all-fiber optic network along Highway 25 in Stevens County. Hood Canal Communications (HCC) seeks to close the digital equity gap by building a complete Fiber to the Home (FTTH) network along the Highway 101 corridor from Triton Cove State Park to Brinnon, in Jefferson County, along the scenic Hood Canal. Jefferson PUD is proposing to build out a fiber network to the communities of Quilcene, Discovery Bay, and Gardiner. Ziply Fiber currently serves its project areas in Ferry and Okanogan counties, which will facilitate rapid deployment of fiber optic infrastructure.

Central Connect (Ellensburg ISP) will provide broadband service from 100/100 Mbps at $65/month to 1/1 Gbps at $120/month. DNG will provide broadband service from 50/50 Mbps at $75/month to 1/1 Gbps at $249/month. HCC will provide broadband service from 25/3 Mbps at $48.95/month to 1/1 Gbps at $83.95/month. Jefferson PUD will offer broadband service from 100/100 Gbps at $65/month to 1/1 Gbps at $90/month. Ziply will offer broadband service from 100/100 Mbps at $40/month to 1/1 Gbps at $60/month.