Broadband stimulus feature: NTCH-ClearTalk seeks high-speed Internet for 38 counties in North Carolina

NTCH-ClearTalk has submitted a joint application for both BIP and BTOP in a 38-county area of eastern North Carolina identified as 97 percent rural.

By leveraging existing infrastructure and deploying “Software Defined Base Stations,” ClearTalk has proposed developing this initial 3G network for less than $24 per population under NTIA-BTOP grant funds or $12 per population under RUS-BIP grant funds. This attractive cost structure is represented not as an idea but a duplication of the same network ClearTalk built in Grand Junction, Col...