The FCC’s National Broadband Map (NBM) elicited a dramatic response on its inaugural day Feb. 17: website requests averaged more than 1,000 per second, FCC Geographic Information Officer Michael Byrne wrote on the NBM blog. The map aims to increase…
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Calix Gets Another Stimulus Win With Clearwave
PETALUMA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Calix, Inc. (NYSE:CALX) today announced that Broadband Technology Opportunity Program (BTOP) Broadband Stimulus award winner Clearwave Communications (Clearwave) has selected the Calix Unified Access portfolio to bring advanced broadband services to 23 counties in southern Illinois. The Clearwave…
NTIA Discusses Broadband Stimulus Accomplishments, Hints at Funding Challenges
NTIA Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information Lawrence A. Strickling recently discussed the agency’s accomplishments getting the federal government’s broadband stimulus program up and running and seeing it through the awards and capital distribution phases. Addressing attendees at a Federal…
Broadband Stimulus Program: An Award Summary
Now that federal agencies have completed the process of making awards in the broadband stimulus program, we thought a summary would be in order. The broadband stimulus program had its genesis in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009,…
NTIA Makes Final Broadband Stimulus Awards
Every U.S. state and territory, as well as the District of Columbia, won broadband stimulus funding yesterday when the National Telecommunications and Information Administration made 56 awards totaling $190 million in the State Broadband Data and Development (SBDD) grant program….
Latest Broadband Stimulus Awards Total Over $700 Million
UPDATE- More information about NTIA awards added to the end of this post. There were no standouts among the 43 new broadband stimulus awards totaling $518 million announced by the Rural Utilities Service today. The largest award–$66.4 million to Lake…
SDN First to Break Ground on Broadband Stimulus Project
It’s been a long time coming, but the broadband stimulus program’s first project is actually underway. SDN Communications, a Sioux Falls, SD based regional fiber network, broke ground yesterday on their $25 million middle mile project which will build a…
Latest Stimulus Winners Include Motorola, Iowa Telecommunications, Windstream, and Satellite Providers
The biggest winner among the 94 broadband stimulus awards totaling $1.8 billion announced today was the University of Arkansas, which was awarded $102 million for a project to connect community anchor institutions throughout the state. Other winners included Iowa Telecommunications,…
All Quiet on the Broadband Stimulus Front, So Far
According to previous guidance from the broadband stimulus program, we should see some significant announcements this week for round two awards. Both programs, BTOP and BIP, announced back on August 4th that approximately 120 projects worth somewhere between $1.5 and…
Broadband Stimulus Program Cut by $302 Million
There’s been a threat of a reduction in the total dollars available through the broadband stimulus program for over a month now. That threat has become reality, with President Obama signing into law a $26 billion fiscal aid package for…
GAO: Competitors Erroneously Challenged Stimulus Applicant Deployment Data
Network operators that challenged competitors’ broadband stimulus applications sometimes supplied incorrect information about broadband coverage, according to information released this week from the Government Accountability Office. Although competitors challenged many applications, a GAO review of 32 applications turned up several…
Feds Provide Roadmap for Remaining Broadband Stimulus Funding
Sensing the end is near, the White House revealed a roadmap for the remaining broadband stimulus funding (detailed below). The information was provided by Secretary’s of Agriculture and Commerce, Vilsack and Locke respectively, on the White House blog of all…
