Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Tech agency wants stimulus money for Internet projects | ajc.com

May 19, 2009

Georgia is one of the few states actively lining up projects to install high-speed Internet in rural parts of the state with the help of federal stimulus money, Georgia Technology Authority program director Rich Calhoun said this week.

The $787 billion federal stimulus package includes $7.2 billion to help add broadband Internet in rural America.

Rich Wonders, a vice president with Alcatel-Lucent, recently was in Atlanta as part of the company’s push for businesses, nonprofits and governments to start working on rural high-speed Internet projects that could receive stimulus dollars...