Siskiyou County announces $23 million Federal ARRA rural broadband stimulus bid | SYS-CON MEDIA

SACRAMENTO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 09/21/09 -- Western Blue, Northern and Central California's experienced IT solution integrator, in a consortium with Siskiyou County, local firms, the Karuk Tribe, the College of the Siskiyou, national technology experts and the State of California announced a $23 million federal ARRA rural broadband stimulus bid.

In a public-private partnership, the Siskiyou County Broadband Consortium led by the Siskiyou County Economic Development Council submitted an application which includes requests for $12 million in "middle mile" funding, plus $10 million and $1 million for "last mile" and "a public computer center" respectively under the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) and Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service (RUS) Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP)...