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The Rural Utilities Service announced projects in 18 states have been awarded $254 million in funding from the broadband stimulus program. These awards are for round one of the program and they add to a growing momentum of recent stimulus awards from both NTIA and RUS. Applications for round two of ...

The National Telecommunications and Information Agency (NTIA) has announced 23 more funding recipients under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The total value of the awards announced March 2 is more than $160 million. Fifteen of the awards went for broadband infrastructure, while ...

Expanded Middle Mile Connectivity to Improve Rural Broadband Access BROOMFIELD, Colo., March 02, 2010 - Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) today announced that the company has been awarded $13.7 million in federal grant funding from the National Telecommunications and Information Association (NTIA) under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Level 3 will commit an additional $4.2 million in matching funds ...

The following information was pulled off of the BroadbandUSA website verbatim, indicating an extension of time for round two broadband stimulus applications: "NTIA and RUS will grant a limited extension of time to file infrastructure applications in the second funding round. Specifically, applicants for BTOP Comprehensive Community ...

The National Telecommunications and Information Agency on March 1 announced two additional broadband stimulus awards from the first funding round. These included a $7.25 grant to the California Emerging Technology Fund for digital literacy ...

On behalf of the Rural Utilities Service, Dept. of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Feb. 17 announced the awarding of 11 broadband infrastructure projects in nine states--an investment of more than $277 million--marking the one-year ...

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke yesterday announced 10 new Broadband Technology Opportunities Program grants totaling $357 million. The BTOP grants hope to bring broadband access to millions of households, businesses and public institutions in California, Florida, Indiana, ...

Both NTIA and RUS are now accepting applications for the second round of the broadband stimulus program.  The program officially opened at 8:00a ET today and applicants have until March 15th to apply. There ...

The latest recipient of broadband stimulus funding – the MidAtlantic Broadband Cooperative (MBC). MBC is a member owned cooperative that operates a fiber network in rural southwestern Virginia. MBC received $15 million in grants out of $20 million that were announced today for projects in ...

Frontier is attempting to significantly grow in size through an acquisition of Verizon rural territories. The transaction is meeting some opposition from fear that Frontier is not equipped to absorb the millions of access lines in question. Frontier ...