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Over two months have passed since the Nevada County Connected (NCC) wireless broadband infrastructure project received its letter of rejection from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) for Round 2 broadband stimulus funding. Like any good story, there is background that helps frame the present. Typically, the “winners” get the stage and the [...] NTIA announced the final round of grant awards yesterday under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s Broadband Technology Opportunities Program, BTOP. All awards were required to be announced by September 30. Nevada County Connected’s project, although we went through a thorough (and grueling) 7-week vetting during due diligence, was in the end not a [...] TECHNOLOGY AND AMOUNT OF FUNDING Yesterday, SmarterBroadband, a local Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) was awarded $2.5M in funding from the Department of Agriculture to extend their Motorola Canopy technology infrastructure here in Nevada County, designated as a “rural” area. 75% of that funding is a grant, directly to the business, and 25% is [...] |
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