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

The project is named Gardnerville, in Douglas County. Closest on this site: the Gardnerville page. Below is what the record holds for Gardnerville, in the state's own terms, and what a household there can do while the plan stays a plan.

What is filed for the Gardnerville project?

The file counts 18 locations in the Gardnerville project and names Digital Technology Solutions INC. Dba DTS Fiber, which is how OSIT's Final Proposal data words it: Digital Technology Solutions INC. Dba DTS Fiber is listed as the subgrantee for Gardnerville. The technology for every one of the 18 locations is fiber to the premises. The file anticipates up to 2500/2500 Mbps per location for Gardnerville. BEAD support is about 302 thousand dollars, and the subgrantee match is about 101 thousand dollars, which puts the filed total at about 403 thousand dollars.

The schedule in the file for Gardnerville is an estimate: a subaward on September 3, 2025, performance starting October 1, 2025 and ending November 30, 2028, a span of about 3.1 years.

OSIT flags Gardnerville as a priority broadband project.

What does provisional mean for Gardnerville?

Provisional is OSIT's word for the whole list, Gardnerville 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; Gardnerville is one of 22 Douglas County projects on that timeline. For Gardnerville that means the November 2028 end date and the count of 18 locations could both move, and the project could change in shape or in who builds it.

The Governor's statement, which covers Gardnerville 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 2028 estimate for Gardnerville, are planning numbers and not a schedule a household can plan around.

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

In the file, every location in Gardnerville is a fiber location. The route for Gardnerville is estimated at 1 mile aerial and 1 mile buried, with 2 estimated jobs; aerial means strung on poles and buried means in the ground.

The anticipated speed of up to 2500/2500 Mbps per location in Gardnerville is the state's planning figure for the technology, not a measurement and not an offer to a household.

How does Gardnerville compare with the other projects in Douglas County?

OSIT's file lists 22 projects in Douglas County with 2,042 locations in all, Gardnerville among them. At 18 locations, Gardnerville is the 11th largest, about 1 percent of the county's filed locations.

The other fiber to the premises projects the file lists in Douglas County besides Gardnerville: Topaz Ranch Estates (1,158); Johnson (83); Genoa (67); Tramway (37). DTS Fiber is also listed, besides Gardnerville, as the subgrantee for Johnson, Genoa, Tramway, Ruhenstroth and 11 more.

Across the six counties' file, 34 projects including Gardnerville use fiber to the premises. Dividing BEAD support by locations gives about 16,800 dollars per location for Gardnerville, against about 370 dollars at the low end and about 25,200 dollars at the high end for that technology, which puts it number 17 of 34 on that measure. That Gardnerville ratio is arithmetic on the file's numbers, not a statement about cost or value.

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

A provisional project such as Gardnerville 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 project, and a home can choose among them now.

For a different kind of option near Gardnerville, High Desert Internet works by fixed wireless from towers, a radio link that needs a clear path to the roof; its plan cards are below this Gardnerville record.

Send the street address through the address check, or call 775-575-9593 between 9 and 5; the Gardnerville 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 is given before that look.