An interview with Coalition for Local Internet Choice president Jim Baller about the strategies used to navigate the myriad legal and regulatory barriers involved with broadband expansion projects. Baller discusses what localities need to know to benefit from federal funding programs, engage in public-private partnerships, and avoid costly and disruptive mistakes in the early stages.
This conversation centers on how public-private partnerships allow municipalities to combine their resources with grant money to deploy broadband during the Covid-19 pandemic. The panelists come from the public and private sectors and discuss their approaches, lessons learned, and predictions.
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration plans to create a program that makes grants to eligible entities for the construction, improvement, or acquisition of middle-mile broadband infrastructure. The Middle Mile Grants Program seeks to encourage the expansion of middle-mile infrastructure and to promote network resiliency.
This landmark legislation, signed into law in November 2021, enables infrastructure investment related to highways, rail systems, bridges, climate change, and broadband infrastructure and adoption, among other items.
The author of this report examines the subsidies awarded in 2009 as part of the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program and questions whether more buildings could have been connected had the funds been allocated by reverse auction rather than by a grant review.
This letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen asks that American Rescue Plan-funded broadband projects contain higher standards for speeds and accountability, and recommends that states be given flexibility to set priorities based on local needs and use funds for planning and technical assistance projects.
A press release announcing the seventh wave of federal dollars for the Emergency Connectivity Fund. The money will support approximately 850 schools, libraries, and consortia in the purchase of 654,000 connected devices and 313,000 broadband connections, affecting more than 700,000 schoolchildren.
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