Reno North McCarran: a provisional High Speed NV (BEAD) project in Washoe County

The file calls the area Reno North McCarran, under Washoe County. Closest on this site: the Reno page. Below is what the record holds for Reno North McCarran, in the state's own terms, and what a household there can do while the plan stays a plan.

What does OSIT list for Reno North McCarran?

OSIT's data names Hot Spot Broadband as the subgrantee for Reno North McCarran. Its 161 locations are all counted as licensed fixed wireless, and the anticipated speed in the file is up to 1000/1000 Mbps for each one. The money side for Reno North McCarran reads about 614 thousand dollars of BEAD support and about 329 thousand dollars from the subgrantee as match, about 943 thousand dollars in all.

The schedule in the file for Reno North McCarran is an estimate: a subaward on September 3, 2025, performance starting October 1, 2025 and ending July 31, 2028, a span of about 2.8 years.

Reno North McCarran carries the priority broadband project flag in the file.

What does provisional mean for Reno North McCarran?

The approval behind Reno North McCarran has two steps left. NTIA approved Nevada's revised Final Proposal and the state announced it on January 8, 2026, but the awards, the Reno North McCarran 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 Reno North McCarran project: Hot Spot Broadband is the listed subgrantee today, 161 locations is today's count, and neither is final. No page on this site, and nothing in the Reno North McCarran file, says that a particular home will be reached.

What is licensed fixed wireless in the Reno North McCarran project?

All 161 locations in Reno North McCarran are filed as licensed fixed wireless: radio from a tower to the building. The file adds an estimate of 1 mile of aerial and 1 mile of buried fiber for Reno North McCarran, and 1 estimated jobs.

The anticipated speed of up to 1000/1000 Mbps per location in Reno North McCarran 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 Reno North McCarran project.

Where does Reno North McCarran sit among the 17 projects in Washoe County?

OSIT's file lists 17 projects in Washoe County with 2,621 locations in all, Reno North McCarran among them. At 161 locations, Reno North McCarran is the 4th largest, about 6 percent of the county's filed locations.

The other licensed fixed wireless projects the file lists in Washoe County besides Reno North McCarran: Arrowcreek Parkway (120); Cold Springs White Lake Parkway (11); Eastlake (8). Hot Spot Broadband is also listed, besides Reno North McCarran, as the subgrantee for Spanish Springs, Arrowcreek Parkway, Mount Rose Northeast, Cold Springs White Lake Parkway and 1 more.

Across the six counties' file, 10 projects including Reno North McCarran use licensed fixed wireless. Dividing BEAD support by locations gives about 3,800 dollars per location for Reno North McCarran, 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 2 of 10 on that measure. That Reno North McCarran ratio is arithmetic on the file's numbers, not a statement about cost or value.

How can a home in the Reno North McCarran area get online now?

Nothing in the Reno North McCarran file changes today's choices in Washoe 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 Reno North McCarran listing is a separate record. Neither one is a promise.

For a different kind of option near Reno North McCarran, 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 Reno North McCarran record.

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