Friday, July 10, 2009

RUS and NTIA: Surfing the Net in the Waves of Grain | Wimax News

Just last week, the Obama administration published some of the criteria for its broadband stimulus money-doling. This event followed President Obama’s signage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), which allocated $7.2 billion to the US Departments of Agriculture and Commerce to improve broadband development in rural and remote areas of the US.

The Rural Utilities Service (RUS)–a subsidiary of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA)–and the National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA)–a subsidiary of the US Department of Commerce (USDC)–were entrusted with the responsibility of handing out the money to appropriate applicants. Here is a simple, yet comprehensive guide to the who, what, and where of this major government windfall..