Carson City South Carson: a provisional High Speed NV (BEAD) project in Carson City

The area is named South Carson in the file, under Carson City. Closest on this site: the Carson City page. This page reads the state's own record for Carson City South Carson and says plainly what it does and does not tell a household.

What does OSIT list for Carson City South Carson?

The file counts 22 locations in the Carson City South Carson project and names Hot Spot Broadband, which is how OSIT's Final Proposal data words it: Hot Spot Broadband is listed as the subgrantee for Carson City South Carson. The technology for every one of the 22 locations is licensed fixed wireless. The file anticipates up to 1000/1000 Mbps per location for Carson City South Carson. BEAD support is about 236 thousand dollars, and the subgrantee match is about 79 thousand dollars, which puts the filed total at about 316 thousand dollars.

The schedule in the file for Carson City South Carson is an estimate: a subaward on September 3, 2025, performance starting October 1, 2025 and ending July 31, 2028, a span of about 2.8 years.

OSIT flags Carson City South Carson as a priority broadband project.

What does provisional mean for Carson City South Carson?

The approval behind Carson City South Carson has two steps left. NTIA approved Nevada's revised Final Proposal and the state announced it on January 8, 2026, but the awards, the Carson City South Carson one among them, stay subject to NTIA curing and NIST final review and award. Until then OSIT lists each project as provisional.

The Governor's statement, which covers Carson City South Carson along with every other project, said deployment was expected to begin in mid-2026 and construction would occur over the next four years. Dates in the file, like the July 2028 estimate for Carson City South Carson, are planning numbers and not a schedule a household can plan around.

What is licensed fixed wireless in the Carson City South Carson project?

Licensed fixed wireless sends internet by radio from a tower to an antenna at the building, using spectrum the operator holds a license for. The file assigns it to all 22 locations in Carson City South Carson, with 1 mile of aerial and 1 mile of buried fiber estimated for the supporting network.

The anticipated speed of up to 1000/1000 Mbps per location in Carson City South Carson is the state's planning figure, not a measurement and not an offer to a household. High Desert Internet also sends internet by radio from towers, under its own arrangements and outside the Carson City South Carson project.

How does Carson City South Carson compare with the other projects in Carson City?

OSIT's file lists 6 projects in Carson City with 618 locations in all, Carson City South Carson among them. At 22 locations, Carson City South Carson is the 5th largest, about 4 percent of the county's filed locations.

Carson City South Carson is the only licensed fixed wireless project in the Carson City list. Hot Spot Broadband is also listed, besides Carson City South Carson, as the subgrantee for Virginia City North Deer Run.

Across the six counties' file, 10 projects including Carson City South Carson use licensed fixed wireless. Dividing BEAD support by locations gives about 10,700 dollars per location for Carson City South Carson, against about 3,400 dollars at the low end and about 22,000 dollars at the high end for that technology, which puts it number 7 of 10 on that measure. That Carson City South Carson ratio is arithmetic on the file's numbers, not a statement about cost or value.

What can a household near Carson City South Carson do today?

Nothing in the Carson City South Carson file changes today's choices in Carson City, so a household can keep the service it has and look at others. The FCC's National Broadband Map at broadbandmap.fcc.gov shows what providers report at an address, and the state's Carson City South Carson listing is a separate record. Neither one is a promise.

High Desert Internet, a fixed wireless provider open since August 2002, is a separate option for a home near Carson City South Carson in Carson City: its three published plans are on the cards below, and whether a tower can see a roof is decided address by address.

Send the street address through the address check, or call 775-575-9593 between 9 and 5; the Carson City South Carson listing changes nothing about that check. Someone reviews the path from a tower to your roof and phones you, and a technician confirms at the house if it looks clear; no answer about an address near Carson City South Carson is given before that look.