[1st-mile-nm] Satellite Broadband Services + FCC Healthcare Connect Fund: links

[Richard Lowenberg]

Here’s a news update on current satellite broadband services and 
capabilities, which are a key option for some in the otherwise 
un-served/under-served rural and tribal areas of NM and elsewhere.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/01/satellite-internet-15mbps-no-matter-where-you-live-in-the-us/

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Also, the FCC has announced that up to $400 million in annual funding 
will be made available to healthcare providers as part of the FCC’s new 
Healthcare Connect Fund.   Beginning in 2013, the FCC’s new Healthcare 
Connect Fund will spur the development of broadband networks to support 
modern telemedicine, which will link urban medical centers to rural 
clinics or provide instant access to health records.

The Fund, which expands the Commission's health care broadband 
initiative from pilot to program, will allow thousands of new providers 
across the country to share in the benefits of connectivity and 
dramatically cut costs for both hospitals and the Universal Service 
Fund. These transformational changes build on major FCC reforms across 
the universal service system. The
FCC will begin accepting applications for the Healthcare Connect Fund 
beginning in late summer of 2013.

http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2013/db0107/DOC-318275A1.pdf




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Richard Lowenberg
1st-Mile Institute
Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-989-9110 / 505-603-5200
www.1st-mile.com   rl at 1st-mile.com
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