A rural broadband proposal for Cascadia Telecom, from Orbitline.
We read Cascadia's request for proposal, the state grant filing and last quarter's investor call. These are the sentences we built everything around.
1.2 million homes in our footprint have no wired option and no plan to get one.
RFP section 2.1, the needWe can't trench 214,000 square miles of mountain and forest before the grant deadline.
Dana, Chief Executive, investor call, August 2026Whatever we buy has to run under the Cascadia name, inside our network, on our bills.
RFP section 4.3, integrationCoral is every service cell in your footprint with no broadband today. Drag the launch clock and six orbital planes come online, each one filling a valley. Tap any cell for its homes and the month it connects.
Nine months before the state's final grant deadline, and with every interim milestone cleared early.
Four hops, a median of 38 milliseconds, and the traffic is back inside Cascadia's network before it touches the internet.
We wrote each chapter for one reader, so nobody waits for a call to get their answer.
Yes, by March 2029. Every one of the 1.2 million homes can order service nine months ahead of the state's December 2029 deadline. We fill the valleys in the order that connects the most homes soonest, so the grant's interim milestones clear early too.
It holds the peak through 2036 on the capacity we'd sign, measured against your own demand forecast. And it isn't a second network. Traffic enters your core at two sites, your OSS sees every terminal, and alarms raise tickets in your queue.
The whole price is fixed for ten years, with no indexation and no usage charges. After the signing payment, money only moves when a launch reaches orbit and its satellites pass in-orbit testing. If a launch fails, you pay nothing for that phase until the replacements pass.
Every one. The dates below come from the same model as the coverage map, so if the launch plan moves, this table moves with it. We also carry the spectrum coordination filings and the state's quarterly speed-test reporting.
The constellation is the same in every configuration. Everything else is a line you can change or drop, and each one says what you give up.
48 satellites in six planes, six launches, four ground stations, Reach capacity, network operations for ten years and the 2033 refresh satellites.
Drop to Reach and evening speeds fall short of your own forecast from 2032.
Drop to the four in the base and Ferris Gap and Teal Basin share one station between them.
Drop it and every home pays $211 for a terminal. Your survey puts year-one take-up at 27 percent instead of 41.
Drop it and a failed launch costs Cascadia about $31M in replacement satellites, and that valley waits nine months longer.
Leave it out and your rural cell sites keep their microwave leases. It can be added at this price until the end of 2028.
Plus capacity, six ground stations, 300,000 subsidized terminals and launch insurance, for $310,000,000. Plus is the smallest tier that clears your 2036 evening peak. Six stations is the point where one storm can't take a valley down. We'd leave enterprise backhaul for a second conversation in 2028, when your microwave leases come up and the network is already proving itself.
Then eight years of running it, with a satellite refresh in 2033 already in the price.
The full contract runs to 140 pages. These are the six things it says.
The total you choose above is the total for ten years. No indexation, no usage charges and no fee per subscriber. It only changes if you ask for a change in writing.
8 percent at signing, 10 percent when the ground stations are live, 9 percent per launch once its satellites pass testing, 8 percent at full coverage, then 2.5 percent a year for operations from 2030.
With launch insurance, replacement satellites are built and flown at our cost and that valley's phase moves back about nine months. Your payment for that launch waits until the replacements pass testing.
99.5 percent availability every month, measured cell by cell. Miss it in any cell and that month's operations payment drops by the credit set out in schedule 6.
Cascadia owns the customers, the brand, the data and every subsidized terminal. Orbitline owns, insures and operates the satellites and ground stations.
Either side can end the contract for cause. Cascadia can also end it for convenience after year five, with twelve months' notice and a fee equal to one year of operations.
We filed a test plan with the state broadband office in September and a ruling is due in January. If the answer is no, the grant share of this project needs a new home, and we'd rather plan that with you now than in February.
The price assumes your field technicians, trained by us in June 2027. If you'd prefer our crews, it adds about $58 a home, and we'll price it as a line.
Both need county zoning approval, with hearings set for March 2027. We hold a backup site in each county, about 20 miles from the first choice.
It comes from your own 2025 household survey. If year one comes in lower, the terminal subsidy is the line to revisit, and nothing else in the plan moves.
Our launch provider releases unbooked slots on 1 December. Slot one is held in Cascadia's name until 20 November. A signed letter of intent keeps it, and the contract follows in December.
Your team at Orbitline. Elena, account lead. Marcus, mission director. Joy, network integration.