Fiber shines again in latest NTIA broadband stimulus announcements | FTTX News | Lightwave Online

FEBRUARY 19, 2010 By Stephen Hardy -- The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has released additional broadband stimulus funds under its Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP). As was the case with previous funding announcements, projects leveraging fiber-optic technology did extremely well (see "First broadband stimulus awards announced" and "Fiber dominates latest US rural broadband stimulus funds release").

The NTIA made a pair of funding announcements over the past week. The most recent came yesterday, when Commerce Secretary Gary Locke announced 10 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act investments worth a total of $357 million. Broadband infrastructure grants accounted for $332.9 million of this total, of which fiber-enabled projects accounted for $274 million...