Farmers' Telephone Company Of Riceville, Iowa
This $18.7 million grant/loan award with an additional $4.7 million applicant-provided match will construct a FTTP network. The project will allow greater than 20Mbps broadband access to the exchange areas of: Little Cedar, New Haven, Plymouth, Riceville, Marble Rock, Greene, St. Ansgar and Stacyville, Iowa. The Farmer's Telephone Company of Riceville, Iowa project stands to benefit approximately 8,500 people. Additionally, 148 businesses and 22 other community institutions stand to benefit from the project. Farmer's Telephone estimates that the project will directly create approximately 250 jobs upfront and help drive economic development in the community that creates jobs for years to come.

Grand River Mutual Telephone Corporation, Iowa
This $9.3 million grant/loan project will provide broadband service to the towns of Lorimor, Murray, and Thater, Iowa, and their surrounding rural areas via a FTTH network. Grand River Mutual Telephone Corporation's project stands to benefit approximately 2,800 people. Additionally, 498 businesses and 10 other community institutions stand to benefit from the project. Not only will this project create jobs upfront, but it will also help drive economic development in the community that will help create jobs for years to come.

Ellsworth Cooperative Telephone Association, Iowa
This $5.3 million grant/loan project will provide high speed Internet service in the communities of Ellsworth and Garden City, Iowa, and their surrounding rural areas via a FTTH network. Ellsworth Cooperative Telephone Association's project stands to benefit approximately 1,300 people. Additionally, 305 businesses and 8 other community institutions stand to benefit from the project. Not only will this project create jobs upfront, but it will also help drive economic development in the community that will help create jobs for years to come.

Breda Telephone Corp., Iowa
This $2.6 million grant/loan project coupled with $2.6 million in outside capital will upgrade two of seven rural exchanges in west central Iowa with FTTP broadband. The proposed project would allow high speed Internet and video services to reach all of the customers in the Breda and Lidderdale exchanges, in addition to their present landline phone services. Breda Telephone Corp.'s project stands to benefit approximately 1,600 people. Additionally, 77 businesses and 3 other community institutions stand to benefit from the project. Not only will this project create jobs upfront, but it will also help drive economic development in the community that will help create jobs for years to come.

Grand River Mutual Telephone Corporation, Iowa and Missouri
This $20.3 million grant/loan project will provide broadband service to the towns of Corydon, Millerton, Allerton, and Lineville, Iowa; and Powersville, Missouri and their surrounding rural areas. Grand River Mutual Telephone Corporation's project stands to benefit approximately 5,200 people. Additionally, 339 businesses and 36 other community institutions stand to benefit from the project. Not only will this project create jobs upfront, but it will also help drive economic development in the community that will help create jobs for years to come.

Shawnee Telephone Company, Illinois
This $7.4 million grant/loan project coupled with $1 million in outside capital will assist citizens in underserved, low-income areas to become highly productive community members by empowering them with broadband technology, as the FTTH network is capable of 1 Gbps transmission speed. Shawnee Telephone Company's project stands to benefit approximately 3,100 people. Additionally, 438 businesses and 35 other community institutions stand to benefit. The lowest per-household income with the highest unemployment in Illinois, Shawnee believes its proposal to develop a broadband network will create new jobs and economic growth, and stimulate innovation and investment. Shawnee Telephone estimates that the project will directly create approximately 100 jobs upfront and help drive economic development in the community that creates jobs for years to come.

H & B Communications Inc., Kansas
This $6.6 million grant/loan combined with $1.6 million in outside capital will provide high speed FTTH broadband to the 62% underserved rural communities surrounding Clafin and Ellinwood, Kansas. Nearly 2,000 people stand to benefit from this grant, along with 91 businesses and 23 community institutions. Not only will this project create jobs upfront, but it will help drive economic development in the community that will create jobs for years to come.