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OpenCape Corp. has been told by the U.S. Department of Commerce that the West Barnstable-based nonprofit has won $32 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds for a program that includes a 350-mile fiber-optic network, a wireless microwave network and regional data center.
Joining the Commerce Dept.’s Broadband Technology Opportunity Program funding will be $8 million in matching funds from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, RCN Metro Optical Networks and Barnstable County. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration — a part of the Commerce Dept. — awarded the $32 million grant.
The new broadband network will bring access to the Cape and the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. In addition, OpenCape says it plans to link up to Internet hubs in Providence, R.I., as well as in Boston through Plymouth and Brockton. Those fiber lines could allow for other areas in the South Coast to eventually connect through OpenCape’s network.
OpenCape says that the project should create more than 400 direct and indirect jobs.
In January, the University of Massachusetts Lowell was awarded a $780,000 grant — accompanied by $190,000 in matching funds raised by the school — to promote broadband use among the Lowell area’s large Cambodian population, low-income and at-risk youth, the unemployed, residents without college degrees and seniors.
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