It won’t be completed until 2013, but the $19.5 million federal stimulus-funded Internet project for the Crow Indian Reservation will bring high-speed, cable Internet access to 1,700 homes and businesses on the rural reservation.
The project also includes a fiber-optic highway to three of the reservation’s most remote towns, eventually giving them access to high-speed Internet that can connect with the rest of the world, a Project Telephone Co. official said.
“One thing we’re really excited about, and I know that the Crow Tribe is, too, is it will bring capability to the reservation that they’ve never had before,” said Rich Hood, plant operations manager for Project Telephone. “The intention is that it will spur economic activity on the reservation and give everybody there access to Internet capability to allow them to do things urban people have been able to do for a long time.”