The launching of a broadband project on Fort Sill to provide internet service to 1,900 houses and barracks was announced this week by Hilliary Communications based in southern Oklahoma.
The $5 million infrastructure investment is expected to begin within 60 to 90 days said Dustin Hilliary, managing partner. Completion is expected within two years. In making the announcement, he said the firm had spent close to five years of negotiations and as a result, the project will provide quality, high-speed broadband service to military personnel and families.
In October of 2021, Hilliary Communications announced it would invest more than $45 million in rural areas of Oklahoma in an expansion of high-powered fiber optic internet in southern Oklahoma and as far east as Talihina.
The company planned to invest $12.5 million in private funds to match the $32.7 million in federal funds awarded to Hilliary Communications’ regional companies through the U.S. Department of Agriculture in August.