Wave Wireless, which provides wireless internet service in Labette County, will expand its network next year and bring fiber optic broadband internet service to 1,390 rural Labette County homes. The service will offer up to gigabit speeds.
Wave Wireless received $5.2 million from USDA’s ReConnect pilot program. The USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service Chief Matthew Lohr announced the award Monday afternoon at the Neosho Township Fire Department on U.S. 400 and Wallace Road. Galen Manners’ company will get a $2.6 million loan and a $2.6 million grant from the ReConnect program. The total award will be $5,271,852.
Manners will use the money to deploy a fiber-to-the-premises broadband network capable of transmission rates of 100 megabits per second or greater.
(Read more: Parsons Sun)