NTIA Awards $160 Million to 23 Stimulus Projects
Posted by Jesse Ward on Monday, March 8, 2010 · 
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On March 2, the NTIA announced 23 new American Recovery and Reinvestment Act investments to help bridge the technological divide, boost economic growth, create jobs and improve education and healthcare cross the country.
The grants, totaling more than $160 million, were awarded to projects in California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, North Carolina, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin, and West Virginia.
The awards includes 10 broadband infrastructure projects, six public computing center initiatives and two sustainable adoption projects.
Of particular note, Level 3 Communications won a total of $14 million in grants to add 47 new access points to its existing broadband network in six states, including California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Tennessee and Texas. Those access points will be open to local Internet service providers at speeds of 50 Mbps – 40 Gbps.
The nine additional broadband infrastructure award recipients included:
- Columbia County Information Technology Department – $13.5 million for a fiber network in Georgia
- Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois – $22.5 million for a fiber network
- Educational Networks of America – $14.3 million to deploy fiber in Indiana
- Open Cape Corporation – $32 million to deploy fiber and microwave broadband in Massachusetts
- Lane Council of Government- $8.3 million to enhance an existing fiber network and deploy 124 miles of additional fiber in Oregon
- Iniciativa Tecnolegica Centro Oriental – $12.9 million to deploy a wireless and fiber network in Puerto Rico
- DeltaCom – $9.5 million to provide a fiber network in Tennessee
- Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System – $5.1 million to deploy fiber
- Hardy Telecommunications – $3.2 million to build a fiber network in West Virginia
NTIA has more.
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