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Sahuarita OKs right‑of‑way agreement with Wired Fiber to bring fiber internet
Summary
The council approved a license and right‑of‑way agreement with Wired (Wired Contract LLC), which plans a phased backbone and neighborhood build to deliver multi‑gigabit fiber service to Sahuarita over roughly a year, the company said.
The Town of Sahuarita mayor and council approved a license and right‑of‑way agreement with Wired (presented to council as Wired Contract LLC), a regional fiber provider, clearing a path for the company to build a backbone and deliver fiber‑to‑the‑home service to the town.
Jason Tamura, Wired’s marketing and planning lead, told the council the company is expanding in the Tucson region and expects to plan the network backbone first, then phase neighborhood builds. Tamura said Wired will coordinate with county and state contractors (and a related backbone partner) and intends to use low‑impact construction techniques such as microtrenching; he said the company has achieved installation rates up to about 3,000 feet per day with microtrench technology in other Arizona communities.
Tamura said the company is reviewing Sahuarita parcel and density maps now and will work with the town on sequencing to avoid rebuilding recently paved streets; the initial backbone and redundancy work could take months and the full neighborhood buildout was described as likely to take about a year from backbone completion. Wired said it plans to offer symmetrical speeds up to eight gigabits in the Sahuarita deployment and will customize product and price packages for the market; exact service pricing was not provided at the meeting.
Council members asked about construction impacts, cabinet density planning, timing for first customers, hiring of local staff and competitive advantages for Sahuarita. Tamura said Wired will coordinate build sequencing with town capital projects and existing pavement conditions, will hire locally for operational staff and expects the first service activation roughly a year after backbone and redundancy are in place. The council voted to approve the license and right‑of‑way agreement without additional conditions.
The agreement grants Wired fiber access to town rights‑of‑way under license terms presented to the council; staff said the company will return to the town with build schedules, permitting plans and coordination as the project proceeds.
