Gardnerville Ranchos: a provisional High Speed NV (BEAD) project in Douglas County

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

What is filed for the Gardnerville Ranchos project?

The file counts 183 locations in the Gardnerville Ranchos 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 Gardnerville Ranchos. The technology for every one of the 183 locations is licensed fixed wireless. The file anticipates up to 1000/1000 Mbps per location for Gardnerville Ranchos. BEAD support is about 628 thousand dollars, and the subgrantee match is about 215 thousand dollars, which puts the filed total at about 842 thousand dollars.

The schedule in the file for Gardnerville Ranchos is an estimate: a subaward on September 3, 2025, performance starting October 1, 2025 and ending July 14, 2028, a span of about 2.8 years.

The file marks Gardnerville Ranchos a priority broadband project.

What does provisional mean for Gardnerville Ranchos?

The state's data calls the status of Gardnerville Ranchos provisional, and NTIA's overview says its figures are subject to change pending NTIA curing and NIST final review and award. Nevada's first approval, on January 16, 2025, was rescinded on June 6, 2025, and the revised plan was approved on January 8, 2026, so the list that holds Gardnerville Ranchos has moved before.

The Governor's statement, which covers Gardnerville Ranchos 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 Gardnerville Ranchos, are planning numbers and not a schedule a household can plan around.

How does the file describe licensed fixed wireless in Gardnerville Ranchos?

The technology field for Gardnerville Ranchos reads licensed fixed wireless for every location. In plain terms that is a radio link to an antenna on the building, backed by an estimated 1 mile of aerial and 1 mile of buried fiber and 8 estimated jobs.

The anticipated speed of up to 1000/1000 Mbps per location in Gardnerville Ranchos 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 Gardnerville Ranchos project.

What is Gardnerville Ranchos's place in the Douglas County list?

OSIT's file lists 22 projects in Douglas County with 2,042 locations in all, Gardnerville Ranchos among them. At 183 locations, Gardnerville Ranchos is the second largest, about 9 percent of the county's filed locations.

The other licensed fixed wireless projects the file lists in Douglas County besides Gardnerville Ranchos: East Valley (158); Fish Springs North (131). Hot Spot Broadband is also listed, besides Gardnerville Ranchos, as the subgrantee for East Valley, Fish Springs North.

Across the six counties' file, 10 projects including Gardnerville Ranchos use licensed fixed wireless. Dividing BEAD support by locations gives about 3,400 dollars per location for Gardnerville Ranchos, 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 1 of 10 on that measure. That Gardnerville Ranchos ratio is arithmetic on the file's numbers, not a statement about cost or value.

What can a household near Gardnerville Ranchos do today?

A provisional project such as Gardnerville Ranchos is not a reason to wait for one. The FCC map at broadbandmap.fcc.gov shows what providers report for a Douglas County address today, with or without the Gardnerville Ranchos 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 Gardnerville Ranchos in Douglas County: 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 Gardnerville Ranchos 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 Gardnerville Ranchos is given before that look.