Steamboat: a provisional High Speed NV (BEAD) project in Storey County

The file names the area Steamboat and files it under Storey County. Below is what the record holds for Steamboat, in the state's own terms, and what a household there can do while the plan stays a plan.

What does the state's record say about Steamboat?

OSIT's data names NV Bell Telephone as the subgrantee for Steamboat. Its 610 locations are all counted as fiber to the premises, and the anticipated speed in the file is up to 5000/5000 Mbps for each one. The money side for Steamboat reads about 6.0 million dollars of BEAD support and about 2.0 million dollars from the subgrantee as match, about 8.0 million dollars in all.

The schedule in the file for Steamboat is an estimate: a subaward on September 3, 2025, performance starting October 1, 2025 and ending September 4, 2029, a span of about 3.9 years.

Steamboat carries the priority broadband project flag in the file.

How firm is the Steamboat project?

Provisional is OSIT's word for the whole list, Steamboat 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; Steamboat is one of 4 Storey County projects on that timeline. For Steamboat that means the September 2029 end date and the count of 610 locations could both move, and the project could change in shape or in who builds it.

The practical reading for the Steamboat project: NV Bell Telephone is the listed subgrantee today, 610 locations is today's count, and neither is final. No page on this site, and nothing in the Steamboat file, says that a particular home will be reached.

What would fiber to the premises mean at the locations in Steamboat?

In the file, every location in Steamboat is a fiber location. The route for Steamboat is estimated at 25 miles aerial and 47 miles buried, with 16 estimated jobs; aerial means strung on poles and buried means in the ground.

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

How does Steamboat compare with the other projects in Storey County?

OSIT's file lists 4 projects in Storey County with 666 locations in all, Steamboat among them. At 610 locations, Steamboat is the largest, about 92 percent of the county's filed locations.

Steamboat is the only fiber to the premises project in the Storey County list. No other project in Storey County lists NV Bell Telephone.

Across the six counties' file, 34 projects including Steamboat use fiber to the premises. Dividing BEAD support by locations gives about 9,900 dollars per location for Steamboat, against about 370 dollars at the low end and about 25,200 dollars at the high end for that technology, which puts it number 9 of 34 on that measure. That Steamboat ratio is arithmetic on the file's numbers, not a statement about cost or value.

What should someone in the Steamboat project area do while it is provisional?

The Steamboat file is a plan, so a home near it has no reason to hold off. Look up the address on the FCC's National Broadband Map at broadbandmap.fcc.gov, compare what providers report, and keep whatever service works while the Steamboat plan moves.

For a different kind of option near Steamboat, 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 Steamboat record.

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