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Digital Infrastructure

In rural areas, access to high-speed broadband is limited, creating a digital divide between rural and urban consumers that rural providers are striving to overcome—many with financial support from CoBank.

175

Digital Infrastructure Customers

$7.7B

Loan Commitments

100+

Years Combined Digital Infrastructure Experience

For decades, CoBank has provided unique lending solutions to a wide range of sectors including incumbent local exchange carriers, cable and wireless broadband, competitive fiber, data centers, and wireless and tower infrastructure providers.

Our financing solutions enable companies to deliver and expand high-speed fiber broadband services to the home, enterprise and expand service to new and underserved territories. From direct loans to syndicated facilities, utilizing our strong capital markets access, we partner with customers to serve as a relevant and dependable provider of credit and other value-added financial services to digital infrastructure providers for the benefit of rural America.

Industry Expertise

As active members of the digital infrastructure industry, we provide financial support to national organizations including NTCA – The Rural Broadband Association, and the Western Telecommunications Alliance, among others, as well as many statewide telecommunications associations.

We have a lot of confidence in CoBank. They understand our industry and have been there for us for an awfully long time.
– John Woody, CEO, Union Wireless

Financing Solutions and Services

Loans

Ask about our wide variety of short- and long-term loan products

Leasing

Lease switching equipment, fiber optics, broadband equipment and more

Cash Management

Manage incoming and outgoing payments, maximize use of idle funds and more

Capital Markets

Financing to support large capital investments and strategic initiatives

Interest Risk Management

Help hedge against interest rate risk for floating rate loans

We chose CoBank because of its understanding of small rural community businesses, experience in the regional wireless space, and its reputation in the industry.
– Slayton Stewart, CEO, Carolina West Wireless

Listen to the All Day Digital podcast

All Day Digital is a CoBank Knowledge Exchange audio program. We connect with communications executives and thought leaders to get their perspective on what’s shaping the industry.

All Day Digital