Sun Valley: a provisional High Speed NV (BEAD) project in Washoe County

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

What does OSIT list for Sun Valley?

Filed under Washoe County, the Sun Valley project carries 72 locations, every one of them fiber to the premises, and NV Bell Telephone as the listed subgrantee. The speed the file anticipates for Sun Valley is up to 5000/5000 Mbps per location. BEAD support for Sun Valley comes to about 881 thousand dollars and the match to about 513 thousand dollars.

The schedule in the file for Sun Valley 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.

Sun Valley carries the priority broadband project flag in the file.

How settled is the plan for Sun Valley?

The state's data calls the status of Sun Valley 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 Nevada's first approval, on January 16, 2025, was rescinded on June 6, 2025, and the revised plan was approved on January 8, 2026, so the list that holds Sun Valley has moved before.

The practical reading for the Sun Valley project: NV Bell Telephone is the listed subgrantee today, 72 locations is today's count, and neither is final. No page on this site, and nothing in the Sun Valley file, says that a particular home will be reached.

How does the file describe the fiber build in Sun Valley?

In the file, every location in Sun Valley is a fiber location. The route for Sun Valley is estimated at 5 miles aerial and 23 miles buried, with 9 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 Sun Valley is the state's planning figure for the technology, not a measurement and not an offer to a household.

How does Sun Valley compare with the other projects in Washoe County?

OSIT's file lists 17 projects in Washoe County with 2,621 locations in all, Sun Valley among them. At 72 locations, Sun Valley is the 9th largest, about 3 percent of the county's filed locations.

The other fiber to the premises projects the file lists in Washoe County besides Sun Valley: Spanish Springs (937); Lemmon Valley (445); Reno-Sparks Indian Colony (159); Mount Rose Northeast (88). NV Bell Telephone is also listed, besides Sun Valley, as the subgrantee for Cantlon.

Across the six counties' file, 34 projects including Sun Valley use fiber to the premises. Dividing BEAD support by locations gives about 12,200 dollars per location for Sun Valley, against about 370 dollars at the low end and about 25,200 dollars at the high end for that technology, which puts it number 13 of 34 on that measure. That Sun Valley ratio is arithmetic on the file's numbers, not a statement about cost or value.

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

Nothing in the Sun Valley 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 Sun Valley listing is a separate record. Neither one is a promise.

High Desert Internet, a fixed wireless provider open since August 2002, is a separate option for a home near Sun Valley in Washoe County: its three published plans are on the cards below, and whether a tower can see a roof is decided address by address.

For a home near Sun 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 Sun Valley project.