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Govtech.com summaries the first round of NTIA Broadband Stimulus awards with the following:
The NTIA will disburse the following Public Computer Center awards:
Arizona: Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records — $1.3 million grant with matching funds of $320,000 to enhance existing facilities in more than 80 public libraries throughout the state. The project expects to deploy more than 1,000 computers to meet growing demand.
Massachusetts: Boston — $1.9 million grant with matching funds of $477,000 to expand computer and Internet capacity at the city’s main library and 25 branches, 16 community centers and 11 public housing sites.
Minnesota: Regents of the University of Minnesota — $2.9 million grant with matching funds of $741,000 to enhance broadband awareness and use for residents in four federally designated poverty zones in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Washington: The Inland Northwest Community Access Network (Tincan) — $1.3 million grant with matching funds of $753,000 to establish three new public computer centers and expand 14 existing centers throughout Spokane’s poorest neighborhoods to serve more than 5,000 additional users per week.
The NTIA will disburse the following Sustainable Broadband Adoption awards:
New Mexico: New Mexico State Library — $1.5 million grant with an additional $591,000 in matching funds to increase broadband adoption and promote computer literacy and Internet use among vulnerable populations, Hispanic and Native American users, small businesses and entrepreneurs through training and outreach statewide.
Washington: The Inland Northwest Community Access Network — $981,000 grant with an additional $728,000 in matching funds to increase broadband adoption through basic and advanced computer skill training, as well as community-based outreach campaigns to highlight the benefits of broadband for vulnerable populations in Spokane.
The Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service will disburse the following Last Mile and Middle Mile awards:
Alaska: Anchorage, Rivada Sea Lion — $25.3 million grant with $6.4 million of leveraged funds; 4G high-speed broadband internet service availability to more than 9,000 unserved locations in a 90,000-square-mile area where these southwestern Alaska inhabitants are living at subsistence level.
Hawaii: Big Island Broadband/Aloha Broadband Inc. — $106,503 loan with matching funds of $87,405 to bring broadband services to an unserved area in the northern part of the islands where there are nearly 600 residents and businesses.
Colorado/Nebraska: Peetz, Colorado, Peetz Cooperative Telephone Co. — $1.5 million grant; expansion of existing infrastructure utilizing a combination of technologies. This project will make broadband service available to as many as 550 locations in the service area.
Michigan: The Chatham Telephone Co. — $8.6 million grant to bring high-speed DSL broadband service to remote, unserved businesses and households within its rural territory; service that is comparable to the DSL service provided in its more populated areas.
New Hampshire: Bretton Woods, The Bretton Woods Telephone Company — $985,000 grant for 20 Mbps two-way broadband service to all potential customers and stimulate tourism in the area to substantially improve the local economy. This Fiber to The Premise service will be available to more than 400 locations.
New York: Potsdam, Slic Network Solutions (Nicholville Telephone) — a grant of $4.3 million and loan of $1.1 million for a 136-mile fiber-optic network reaching into five towns in rural Franklin County. This all-fiber network will deliver broadband voice, and IPTV services to remote rural areas. The network will offer service to more than 6,500 locations.
Ohio: North Central Ohio Rural Fiber Optic Network, Consolidated Electric Cooperative — $1,034,413 grant and $1,399,499 loan; and matching funds of $1,225,000. The funding is integral to a smart grid initiative and broadband service based on an open-connectivity fiber-optic backbone network.
Oklahoma: Southeast Oklahoma, The Pine Telephone Co. — $9.5 grant with an additional $4.6 million in private funds to provide services to an entirely remote, rural, unserved and severely economically disadvantaged community.
