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• NTIA Reports BTOP Progress to Congress

  
  Telecompetitor — Authority: 503
  The federal government’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration and Rural Utilities Service received more than 2,200 applications requesting nearly $28 billion in funding for proposed broadband projects, according to the NTIA’s latest quarterly report to Congress on the $4.7 billion Broadband ...
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• CenturyLink opposes local NC broadband application

  
  Telecom Industry News — Authority: 144
  As the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and Rural Utility Service (RUS) get set to award broadband stimulus grants, it was only a matter of time before incumbent telcos such as CenturyLink--who opted to not participate in the program--started raising their hackles against applicants ...
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• Stimulus Czars Provide Environmental Guidance, Seek Input on Next Funding Round

  
  CommLawBlog — Authority: 124
  It is hard (or maybe not so hard) to believe that back in February when the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was enacted, the administrators at the Departments of Agriculture and Commerce were promising that grants would start to be made in May , with most of the first round funds awarded in June.  Here we ...
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• CAGW Seeks Strict Scrutiny of Broadband Stimulus Grants

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 458
  CAGW this month filed letters with the National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA) objecting to 23 applications for broadband grants totaling $550 million under the “economic stimulus” bill.  “There have been numerous reports of waste and mismanagement of stimulus funds, such as hundreds ...
  2 weeks ago

• Anoka County, Minnesota issues RFP seeking partner for NTIA broadband funding

  
  MuniWireless — Authority: 497
  Anoka County, Minnesota (430 square miles; pop: 320,000) has just posted an RFP seeking a partner to help it get a grant from the NTIA for broadband in the county. The deadline for responses is 14 December 2009 at 16:00. I have posted the main RFP document on Scribd . If you are serious about responding to the RFP, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Broadband Stimulus Program Take Two – less is more? Request for comment..

  
  isoc-ny.org — Authority: 117
  Nov 10 2009 : The United States Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today announced they are streamlining the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s broadband grant and loan programs by ...
  2 weeks ago

• NTIA, RUS want your feedback on next round of funding

  
  MuniWireless — Authority: 497
  The NTIA and RUS are seeking public comment about the next round of funding. There will be only one more round, not two, and the agencies want to know how they can streamline the process. This is after all the “stimulus” funding and it’s meant to stimulate the economy. Given that we are already in year 2 of ...
  2 weeks ago

• NTIA/RUS Decide on One More Round of Broadband Funding

  
  Tech Policy Central — Authority: 112
  The two federal agencies in charge of the Recovery Acts $7.2 billion in broadband funding programs, USDAs Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and the Commerce Departments National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), confirmed today that they will consolidate the two remaining funding rounds into one ...
  2 weeks ago

• NTIA/RUS Announce Streamlining of Broadband Stimulus Program

  
  Telecompetitor — Authority: 503
  Agencies Plan to Consolidate Final Two Funding Rounds, Seek Comment on Program EnhancementsWASHINGTON, Nov. 10, 2009 – The USDA’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today announceNTId they are streamlining the American ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wisconsin Gets Broadband Mapping Grant; DPI Seeks Input

  
  The WLA Blog — Authority: 100
  On Friday the National Telecommunications and Information Administration ( NTIA ) announced it awarded grants to fund state broadband mapping to the Wisconsin Public Service Commission and to six other states. (Press release at http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press/2009/ BBMappinggrants _091106.html .) The PSC has ...
  2 weeks ago

• BroadbandCensus.com’s Request For Assistance – And a Broadband Breakfast Club Invite

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 546
  Here’s something that may appeal to transparency enthusiasts, as well as to environmental skeptics… WASHINGTON, November 9, 2009 – BroadbandCensus.com has been investigating broadband stimulus projects and focusing on the preferred projects from the states. We still lack letters to the National ...
  2 weeks ago

• BREAKING: Gov. Herbert Recommends UTOPIA for Broadband Stimulus

  
  Free UTOPIA! — Authority: 417
  Peter Pratt at StimulatingBroadband.com tipped me off that Gov. Herbert has made his recommendations to NTIA and that all three of UTOPIA’s proposals are on the list. This could pump over $57M into the network at a time when capital for expansion is rather difficult to come by. The money could be ready to use as ...
  3 weeks ago

• Broadband And Education - FCC Asks: Whats The Scoop?

  
  CommLawBlog — Authority: 124
  FCC solicits comments, information on interplay of broadband deployment and education at all levels As part of its ongoing efforts to get a handle on All Things Broadband before the FCC’s homework ( i.e. , the National Broadband Plan, a/k/a the NBP) is due in February, the Commission has released yet another ...
  3 weeks ago

• NTIA, RUS delay broadband grant awards

  
  Telecom Industry News — Authority: 144
  If youre a service provider or a local government agency waiting to see if youll get a funding grant for your broadband project, your wait is going to get longer. Citing ongoing confusion over the application process and the definition of remote areas, the National Telecommunications Industry Association (NTIA) and ...
  4 weeks ago

• How Intermountain West States Rate for Broadband Stimulus Funds

  
  indonesia type approval — Authority: 145
  In the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the stimulus package, Congress appropriated $7.2 billion for broadband grants, loans, and loan guarantees to be administered by the USDA’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information ...
  4 weeks ago

• Broadband Stimulus Awards to be Delayed

  
  Telecompetitor — Authority: 503
  NTIA Administrator Larry Strickling announced at a recent congressional hearing that the awarding of broadband stimulus funds will be delayed until at least December. The first of the $7.2 billion funding for infrastructure projects was originally scheduled to be awarded in November. Strickling told a Senate oversight ...
  4 weeks ago

• NTIA, RUS to award grants in December 2009

  
  MuniWireless — Authority: 497
  The NTIA and RUS have extended the review of grant applications to December 2009, one month later than earlier announced. The first round of funding of the Broadband Technology Opportunity Program and the Broadband Initiative Program has generated thousands of applications. Lawrence Strickling, Assistant Secretary ...
  4 weeks ago

• Oink! $1.5 million for a broadband map of Washington DC

  
  Third Pipe, the future of broadband — Authority: 128
  If you wanted to improve broadband access in Washington DC, how would you go about it? In the case of the NTIA (a the bureaucratic body responsible for dispersing internet stimulus money), you order a very expensive map and build nothing. The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information ...
  4 weeks ago

• NTIA Broadband Data Transparency Workshop

  
  Public Knowledge - Blogging, Events, and Action Alerts — Authority: 131
  October 30, 2009 - 1:00pm - 3:00pm The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) will host a public meeting regarding data related to broadband Internet access that the agency collects, data needs of researchers, and future broadband research. U.S. Department of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Comcast protests broadband stimulus grant applications

  
  Telecom Industry News — Authority: 144
  It was only a matter of time before the large cable MSOs such as Comcast, who joined the telcos in opting out of the broadband stimulus race over fear of the FCCs net neutrality rules, would begin protesting broadband grant applications. Comcast is the first major carrier to protest broadband stimulus applications. A ...
  4 weeks ago

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