Prices will be announced Monday amount equal to the largest round of public funding for broadband since Congress 7.2 billion U.S. dollars for high-speed networks and programs, the adoption of the stimulus bill last year.
The money will be jobs and economic opportunities for rural communities, slums and in other parts of the country remain in the information age. It is also necessary for the network of tele-medicine services to pay, offer online courses give, and give other applications that require more bandwidth.
"This large number of projects to create much needed jobs will also build networks for the development of the rural economy to ensure the coming years," said Jonathan Adelstein, the Ministry of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service, who heads the money awarded.
Prices will be announced on Monday announced are:
• 88.1 million U.S. dollars for a grant and a loan to an Alaskan telecommunications company, the construction of the "middle mile" networks will produce Eskimos to 65 towns and villages in southwestern Alaska to the Internet.
• a 19.1 million U.S. dollars of grants and loans to a Missouri electric cooperative a fiber network to nearly 5,000 homes, businesses, public safety organizations and community organizations to build in rural Ralls County, Mo achieve
• a 3.9 million U.S. dollars grant to a single portion TDS Telecommunications Corp., a digital subscriber line network to homes, businesses and institutions of the community in sparsely populated parts of Alabama building.
• A $ 376,000 grant and loan to a telephone company, is a WiMax network that can provide broadband wireless connections to nearly 325 homes in northeast Iowa to build.
Including the latest round of funding, the Rural Utilities Service distributed 363.7 million U.S. dollars for 22 broadband projects in the country. The Agriculture Department awarded a total of 2.5 billion U.S. dollars in incentive money for broadband applications.
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration, an arm of the Commerce Department will transfer the remaining 4.7 billion U.S. dollars in funding boost for broadband. Since last week, NTIA had issued approximately $ 200 million in grants for 15 projects.
Applications for the next and final round of the broadband support to March 15 due.
In the second round will focus on the Agriculture Department projects that "last mile" issue "link connections, the homes, businesses and other users on the Internet. The Commerce Department will focus on" middle-mile "projects, which anchors institutions such as libraries, universities and public security authorities to enter into connection. There is also some money for the award of computer centers in libraries, schools and other public facilities, programs, and the assumption that people like to use the Internet to learn.
The demand for broadband has been intense money, much higher than the available funds. Trade and Agriculture departments almost 2200 requests for applications for a total of 28 billion U.S. dollars.
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