<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div class="entry-header"><h4 class="kicker"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">The RUS and BTOP today announced additional awards, nationwide.</span></h4><h4 class="kicker"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">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.</span></h4><h4 class="kicker"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">RL</span></h4><h4 class="kicker"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">----------</span></h4><h4 class="kicker"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">Wednesday, August 18, 2010 </span></h4><h4 class="kicker"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2010/08/broadband-grants-totaling-18-b.php">http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2010/08/broadband-grants-totaling-18-b.php</a> </span></h4>
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<h1 class="entry-title"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Broadband Grants Totaling $1.8 Billion Announced</span></font></h1><p class="author-name">
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<div class="entry-body"><p>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.<br>
Grants totaling $1.8 billion for <a onclick="s_objectID="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/20100818_Broadband_Awards.pdf_1";return this.s_oc?this.s_oc(e):true" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/20100818_Broadband_Awards.pdf">94 projects</a>
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.<br>
"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.<br>
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.<br>
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.<br>
Noteworthy among the funded projects are <a onclick="s_objectID="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/20100818_public_safety_fact_sheet.pdf_1";return this.s_oc?this.s_oc(e):true" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/20100818_public_safety_fact_sheet.pdf">five new networks</a>
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.<br>
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.</p><p><br></p></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div>------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>Richard Lowenberg<br>P. O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504<br>505-989-9110 off.; 505-603-5200 cell</div><div>------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>Senior Broadband Planner<br>Design Nine, Inc.<br><a href="mailto:lowenberg@designnine.com">lowenberg@designnine.com</a><br><a href="http://www.designnine.com/">www.designnine.com</a><br>Design Nine provides visionary broadband </div><div>architecture and engineering services, </div><div>telecommunications master planning, </div><div>and broadband project management.</div><div>------------------------------------------------------------</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>