Pine Nut Valley: a provisional High Speed NV (BEAD) project in Douglas County

The file names Pine Nut Valley and files it under Douglas County. Closest on this site: the Gardnerville page. This page reads the state's own record for Pine Nut Valley and says plainly what it does and does not tell a household.

What does the state's record say about Pine Nut Valley?

OSIT's data names Amazon Kuiper Commercial Services as the subgrantee for Pine Nut Valley. Its 12 locations are all counted as low-earth-orbit satellite, and the anticipated speed in the file is up to 100/20 Mbps for each one. The money side for Pine Nut Valley reads about 7,200 dollars of BEAD support and about 2,400 dollars from the subgrantee as match, about 9,600 dollars in all.

The schedule in the file for Pine Nut Valley is an estimate: a subaward on September 3, 2025, performance starting October 1, 2025 and ending January 31, 2027, a span of about 15 months. That end date for Pine Nut Valley is close, and it is still an estimate; the file does not report progress.

The file does not mark Pine Nut Valley a priority broadband project. The file also says Pine Nut Valley intersects tribal land, with the consent name Washoe Ranches, and that is all this page says about it.

How firm is the Pine Nut Valley project?

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

The practical reading for the Pine Nut Valley project: Amazon Kuiper is the listed subgrantee today, 12 locations is today's count, and neither is final. No page on this site, and nothing in the Pine Nut Valley file, says that a particular home will be reached.

What would low-earth-orbit satellite mean for the 12 locations?

Low-earth-orbit satellite service, the technology filed for Pine Nut Valley, reaches a home from satellites that circle much closer to Earth than the older geostationary kind, through a dish with a clear view of the sky. The file assigns it to all 12 locations in Pine Nut Valley.

The anticipated speed of up to 100/20 Mbps per location in Pine Nut Valley is the state's planning figure, not a measurement and not an offer to a household. This page gives no latency number for Pine Nut Valley, because the file gives none.

What is Pine Nut Valley's place in the Douglas County list?

OSIT's file lists 22 projects in Douglas County with 2,042 locations in all, Pine Nut Valley among them. At 12 locations, Pine Nut Valley is the 13th largest, about 1 percent of the county's filed locations.

The other low-earth-orbit satellite projects the file lists in Douglas County besides Pine Nut Valley: Long (89). Amazon Kuiper is also listed, besides Pine Nut Valley, as the subgrantee for Long.

Across the six counties' file, 17 projects including Pine Nut Valley use low-earth-orbit satellite. Dividing BEAD support by locations gives about 600 dollars per location for Pine Nut Valley, against about 600 dollars at the low end and about 3,800 dollars at the high end for that technology, which puts it number 6 of 17 on that measure. That Pine Nut Valley ratio is arithmetic on the file's numbers, not a statement about cost or value.

What can a household near Pine Nut Valley do today?

Nothing in the Pine Nut Valley file changes today's choices in Douglas County, 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 Pine Nut Valley listing is a separate record. Neither one is a promise.

For a different kind of option near Pine Nut Valley, 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 Pine Nut Valley record.

For a home near Pine Nut Valley, 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 Pine Nut Valley project.