[1st-mile-nm] More Broadband Stimulus Awards Announced

[Richard Lowenberg]

The RUS and BTOP today announced additional awards, nationwide.

Congratulations to ENMR (NTIA CCI: $16.5 M), and to the NM Department  
of IT (NTIA CCI: $38.7 M) on their successful applications.   More  
projects are in the que, and additional announcements are expected  
over the coming weeks.    Click on the following article links for  
details.

RL

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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2010/08/broadband-grants-totaling-18-b.php

Broadband Grants Totaling $1.8 Billion Announced

By Mike Magner

Scores of stimulus grants to extend broadband infrastructure to  
underserved Americans were announced today by the departments of  
Commerce and Agriculture as part of an effort to bridge the digital  
divide between urban and rural areas.
Grants totaling $1.8 billion for 94 projects in 37 states are aimed at  
both job creation and technology expansion, Commerce Secretary Locke  
and Agriculture Secretary Vilsack said in a conference call announcing  
the latest round of funding from a $7.2 billion pot for broadband  
projects that was included in last year's Recovery Act.
"These projects will connect Americans who have for too long been  
without the full economic, educational and social benefits of high- 
speed Internet access - access central to success in the 21st  
century," Locke said.
Locke said 36 percent of Americans are without access to high-speed  
Internet services. "That is simply unacceptable," he said. The 66  
projects announced today by the Commerce Department's National  
Telecommunications and Information Administration will develop 25,000  
miles of new broadband networks, providing access to 19 million  
households and 1.8 million businesses, he said.
Vilsack said nearly half the people living in rural areas lack access  
to broadband services. The 28 awards provided today from USDA's Rural  
Utilities Service will extend infrastructure to 1.2 million  
households, he said.
Noteworthy among the funded projects are five new networks for public  
safety services, such as a $38.7 million project in Albuquerque and  
Santa Fe, N.M., that will enable streaming of patient data from  
paramedics to hospitals and other types of data transmission.
Satellite services are also being funded for the first time in four  
projects, including a $7.5 million award to Spacenet, Inc., to provide  
broadband service to rural customers in Alaska and Hawaii.



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Design Nine, Inc.
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