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D.C. (NewsDakota.com) Senator John Hoeven announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded Telecommunications Infrastructure loans totaling more than .5 million to North Dakota rural telecommunications providers to establish and expand broadband service to rural areas of Stutsman, Morton and Oliver counties.

Daktel Communication, LLC will be awarded $2,370,354 to establish a fiber-to-the-home network that will provide broadband service in rural area of Stutsman County.

BEK Communications Cooperative will receive a loan of $2,136,045 to establish a fiber-to-the-premises network that will provide broadband service in northeast Morton County and southeast Oliver County.

Hoeven said, “Broadband access means access to the world for both personal and commercial users in rural North Dakota,” Hoeven added “it will open new opportunities and enable rural North Dakota businesses and residents to participate in the larger economic growth our state is now experiencing.”