Nulty group gets $66M for project

National Public Broadband, headed by former Burlington Telecom General Manager Tim Nulty, has been awarded $66 million in federal startup money for a high speed Internet project in northeast Minnesota's Lake County.

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Ohio, Iowa telcos plan IPTV rollout using broadband stimulus funds

By Jim O'Neill

A pair of Tier 3 telcos granted broadband stimulus funds will be rolling out IPTV products and other advanced services to their customers across new fiber networks.


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Library community to gather in Tacoma to talk broadband

by Brian Zylstra | December 10th, 2010

More than 60 library directors from around Washington will be among those congregating in Tacoma Dec. 13-14 for an event to discuss how to make most effective use of high-speed broadband connections that are being made available through $183 million in grants that will benefit libraries, as well as schools, health clinics, community colleges and various government and non-profit buildings across the state, especially in rural areas.

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Occam Networks Selected By Broadband Stimulus Winners Benton Ridge Telephone and C-M-L Telephone Cooperative to Deliver Advanced Broadband Services

Rural providers deploy Occam’s BLC 6000 to create new efficiencies and advance high-speed data, video and voice services to communities in Ohio and Iowa

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Occam Networks®, Inc. (Nasdaq:OCNW), announced today that Benton Ridge Telephone Company and C-M-L Telephone Cooperative have chosen the BLC 6000 multiservice access platform (MSAP) to bring IPTV and other high-speed services to their respective regions.

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RUS Makes Loans for FTTH, Offers to Help FCC Implement NBP

11/12/10 at 5:30 PM by Joan Engebretson

Just weeks after completing the award process for the broadband stimulus program, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service has announced nearly $247.9 million in loans to rural carriers through the telecommunications infrastructure loan program. The announcement included 12 loans in 11 primarily western and midwestern states, ranging in value from $8.6 million to $38.8 million.

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Source: http://www.telecompetitor.com/rus-makes-loans-for-ftth-offers-to-help-fcc-implement-nbp/

Ohio Receives $5.3 Million for Broadband Expansion Efforts

By Rachelle Manson, Connect Ohio

Columbus, Ohio — Ohio will receive $5.3 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding for the Connect Ohio initiative to continue its work under the State Broadband Data and Development program. The grant will extend data collection, mapping, and last mile projects throughout the state of Ohio for three additional years. The project consists of four components that the state will implement in order to ensure increased connectivity. The components include: state capacity building, technical assistance, mapping, and address file development.

Connect Ohio will conduct surveys in each of Ohio’s 88 counties to assess the rates of broadband subscription and the barriers to technology adoption. The state’s data development portion of the grant will provide more address-specific data to help residents identify broadband service providers serving their homes. The data will also enable broadband service providers to identify opportunities to deploy new coverage to unserved households.

Connect Ohio will continue the mapping program along with its Every Community Online adoption project, which recently received a Broadband Technology Opportunities Program grant.

To review the overview of the SBDD grant, please go to: http://www2.ntia.doc.gov/grantee/ohio-office-of-information-technology

Library awarded $2 million Federal Stimulus grant

The Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, along with many local partners, has been awarded a Federal Stimulus grant totaling more than $2 million to support a Public Computer Center at the Kent Branch Library and cybermobile that will take broadband access into Lucas County.

Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur presented an oversized check to Library Director Clyde Scoles at a news conference Sunday (September 12) at Kent Branch Library.

The total cost of the project is $3,090,936. This includes the $2,163,655 in federal money, $68,000 from local partners and $859,281 from the Library (will come from the Building and Repair Fund).

The federal assistance will fund expansion of the Kent Branch Library, acquisition of a mobile computer center, and expanded training for small business owners and local entrepreneurs.

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