MEDICINE PARK — Several rural Oklahoma communities with previously limited high speed broadband service will now benefit from funding recently awarded to locally owned Hilliary Communications.
MEDICINE PARK — Several rural Oklahoma communities with previously limited high speed broadband service will now benefit from funding recently awarded to locally owned Hilliary Communications.
“We are excited to announce that we have just been awarded more than $15 million from the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) and are also excited about how this will benefit residents of these communities in their day-to-day lives,” said Hilliary Communications Special Projects Director JJ Francais.
The awarded funds will be spent building out broadband infrastructure to the previously underserved Oklahoma communities of Cache, Marlow, Geronimo, Central High, Minco, Alex, Amber, and Pocasset. The project is expected to make high speed broadband available to more than 9,000 residents in southwest Oklahoma.
Residents and businesses in these communities and surrounding areas will soon have access to Gig speeds, allowing them to telecommute to work or school, stream video content seamlessly and more.
Hilliary Communications plans to begin construction during the first quarter of 2020 and hopes to be serving new customers start- ing in the third quarter of 2020.
ABOUT HILLIARY COMMUNICATIONS
Hilliary Communications operates four ILEC properties (two in Oklahoma and two in North Texas) and a CLEC in Oklahoma. Hilliary Communications delivers phone, internet, and TV service to more than 7,000 subscribers in Oklahoma and North Texas, operating in excess of 900 route miles of fiber providing transport services.
At present, Hilliary Communications is deploying a new FTTH system to 8,000 new homes in central Oklahoma.