Tribal drums, singing and dancing children adorned in their finest traditional regalia welcomed the arrival of broadband Internet – along with 21st Century economic, education, public safety and health care opportunities – on the reservation of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs in Central Oregon last week. Hundreds of community members joined the celebration along with USDA Rural Development Under Secretary Dallas Tonsager and State Director Vicki Walker.
With $5.4 million in USDA Recovery Act broadband funding, Warm Springs Telecommunications Company has constructed a state-of-the-art fiber and fixed wireless network that will eventually serve everyone on the 644,000-acre reservation with telephone and broadband.
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