Fallon: a provisional High Speed NV (BEAD) project in Churchill County

The project is named Fallon, in Churchill County. Closest on this site: the Fallon page. The Fallon record is short, so this page sets it beside the other Churchill County projects and explains the words in it.

What is filed for the Fallon project?

Filed under Churchill County, the Fallon project carries 885 locations, every one of them fiber to the premises, and Hot Spot Broadband as the listed subgrantee. The speed the file anticipates for Fallon is up to 5000/5000 Mbps per location. BEAD support for Fallon comes to about 18.4 million dollars and the match to about 6.1 million dollars.

The schedule in the file for Fallon is an estimate: a subaward on September 3, 2025, performance starting October 1, 2025 and ending November 30, 2026, a span of about 13 months. That end date for Fallon is close, and it is still an estimate; the file does not report progress.

The file marks Fallon a priority broadband project.

How firm is the Fallon project?

Provisional is OSIT's word for the whole list, Fallon included: the plan that NTIA approved, announced January 8, 2026, is subject to NTIA curing and NIST final review and award. The Governor said at the time that deployment of BEAD projects was expected to begin in mid-2026 and that construction would occur over the next four years; Fallon is one of 3 Churchill County projects on that timeline. For Fallon that means the November 2026 end date and the count of 885 locations could both move, and the project could change in shape or in who builds it.

The Governor's statement, which covers Fallon 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 November 2026 estimate for Fallon, are planning numbers and not a schedule a household can plan around.

What does the fiber work look like in the file for Fallon?

The route estimate is the plainest hint of scale for Fallon: 1 mile of aerial fiber, 1 mile of buried fiber and 18 estimated jobs for 885 locations. It is an estimate in a plan for Fallon, not a survey of any street.

The anticipated speed of up to 5000/5000 Mbps per location in Fallon is the state's planning figure for the technology, not a measurement and not an offer to a household.

How does Fallon compare with the other projects in Churchill County?

OSIT's file lists 3 projects in Churchill County with 1,078 locations in all, Fallon among them. At 885 locations, Fallon is the largest, about 82 percent of the county's filed locations.

Fallon is the only fiber to the premises project in the Churchill County list. No other project in Churchill County lists Hot Spot Broadband.

Across the six counties' file, 34 projects including Fallon use fiber to the premises. Dividing BEAD support by locations gives about 20,800 dollars per location for Fallon, against about 370 dollars at the low end and about 25,200 dollars at the high end for that technology, which puts it number 23 of 34 on that measure. That Fallon ratio is arithmetic on the file's numbers, not a statement about cost or value.

How can a home in the Fallon area get online now?

A provisional project such as Fallon is not a reason to wait for one. The FCC map at broadbandmap.fcc.gov shows what providers report for a Churchill County address today, with or without the Fallon project, and a home can choose among them now.

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

For a home near Fallon, use the address check or call 775-575-9593, 9 to 5 every day. A person looks at the path from the nearest tower to the roof and calls back; if it looks clear, a technician confirms it at the house, and that answer is for one address, not for the Fallon project.