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Official: Don’t Ask For Feedback On Grants That Have Not Been Named
The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration and Agriculture Department’s Rural Utilities Service should not have asked for public feedback on how to effectively get broadband stimulus funds to applicants who should be receiving them before they announced the winners of the first round of grants, a top technology official said Tuesday morning.
The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration and Agriculture Department’s Rural Utilities Service should not have asked for public feedback on how to effectively get broadband stimulus funds to applicants who should be receiving them before they announced the winners of the first round of grants, a top technology official said Tuesday morning.
Virginia Deputy Secretary of Technology Karen Jackson said “we drew back on our feedback … so as not to jeopardize any applicants.”
She continued by advising potential fund applicants to “start conversations with contacts at the local level now” and to form partnerships with local entities.
Virginia received 9,000 stimulus funding applications and the application process moves quickly, added Jackson in remarks she delivered at an event held by the Northern Virginia Technology Council Business to Government Committee and the Telecommunications Industry Association on the state of the stimulus funding allocated by Congress in January.
NTIA and RUS have delayed announcing the first round of grant awards and said they will limit the remaining grant awards to one more round of funding, which they wrote in a report to Congress “will begin early in 2010.”
“NTIA will not conclude the first round of BTOP funding at the end of 2009 as originally targeted, but is on course to do so in February 2010,” it told Congress. John Kuykendall, a vice president of John Staurulakis, said that applicants for broadband stimulus funding had to apply to the programs at both NTIA and RUS.
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U.S. Broadband Deployment and Speeds are Beating Europe’s, Says Scholar Touting ‘Facilities-based Competition’
The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration and Agriculture Department’s Rural Utilities Service should not have asked for public feedback on how to effectively get broadband stimulus funds to applicants who should be receiving them before they announced the winners of the first round of grants, a top technology official said Tuesday morning.
Virginia Deputy Secretary of Technology Karen Jackson said “we drew back on our feedback … so as not to jeopardize any applicants.”
She continued by advising potential fund applicants to “start conversations with contacts at the local level now” and to form partnerships with local entities.
Virginia received 9,000 stimulus funding applications and the application process moves quickly, added Jackson in remarks she delivered at an event held by the Northern Virginia Technology Council Business to Government Committee and the Telecommunications Industry Association on the state of the stimulus funding allocated by Congress in January.
NTIA and RUS have delayed announcing the first round of grant awards and said they will limit the remaining grant awards to one more round of funding, which they wrote in a report to Congress “will begin early in 2010.”
“NTIA will not conclude the first round of BTOP funding at the end of 2009 as originally targeted, but is on course to do so in February 2010,” it told Congress. John Kuykendall, a vice president of John Staurulakis, said that applicants for broadband stimulus funding had to apply to the programs at both NTIA and RUS.
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Discussion of Broadband Breakfast Club Virtual Event on High-Capacity Applications and Gigabit Connectivity
WASHINGTON, September 24, 2013 – The Broadband Breakfast Club released the first video of its Broadband Breakfast Club Virtual Event, on “How High-Capacity Applications Are Driving Gigabit Connectivity.”
The dialogue featured Dr. Glenn Ricart, Chief Technology Officer, US IGNITE; Sheldon Grizzle of GigTank in Chattanooga, Tennessee; Todd Marriott, Executive Director of UTOPIA, the Utah Telecommunications Open Infrastructure Agency, and Drew Clark, Chairman and Publisher, BroadbandBreakfast.com.
The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration and Agriculture Department’s Rural Utilities Service should not have asked for public feedback on how to effectively get broadband stimulus funds to applicants who should be receiving them before they announced the winners of the first round of grants, a top technology official said Tuesday morning.
Virginia Deputy Secretary of Technology Karen Jackson said “we drew back on our feedback … so as not to jeopardize any applicants.”
She continued by advising potential fund applicants to “start conversations with contacts at the local level now” and to form partnerships with local entities.
Virginia received 9,000 stimulus funding applications and the application process moves quickly, added Jackson in remarks she delivered at an event held by the Northern Virginia Technology Council Business to Government Committee and the Telecommunications Industry Association on the state of the stimulus funding allocated by Congress in January.
NTIA and RUS have delayed announcing the first round of grant awards and said they will limit the remaining grant awards to one more round of funding, which they wrote in a report to Congress “will begin early in 2010.”
“NTIA will not conclude the first round of BTOP funding at the end of 2009 as originally targeted, but is on course to do so in February 2010,” it told Congress. John Kuykendall, a vice president of John Staurulakis, said that applicants for broadband stimulus funding had to apply to the programs at both NTIA and RUS.
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Breakfast Club Video: ‘Gigabit and Ultra-High-Speed Networks: Where They Stand Now and How They Are Building the Future’
The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration and Agriculture Department’s Rural Utilities Service should not have asked for public feedback on how to effectively get broadband stimulus funds to applicants who should be receiving them before they announced the winners of the first round of grants, a top technology official said Tuesday morning.
Virginia Deputy Secretary of Technology Karen Jackson said “we drew back on our feedback … so as not to jeopardize any applicants.”
She continued by advising potential fund applicants to “start conversations with contacts at the local level now” and to form partnerships with local entities.
Virginia received 9,000 stimulus funding applications and the application process moves quickly, added Jackson in remarks she delivered at an event held by the Northern Virginia Technology Council Business to Government Committee and the Telecommunications Industry Association on the state of the stimulus funding allocated by Congress in January.
NTIA and RUS have delayed announcing the first round of grant awards and said they will limit the remaining grant awards to one more round of funding, which they wrote in a report to Congress “will begin early in 2010.”
“NTIA will not conclude the first round of BTOP funding at the end of 2009 as originally targeted, but is on course to do so in February 2010,” it told Congress. John Kuykendall, a vice president of John Staurulakis, said that applicants for broadband stimulus funding had to apply to the programs at both NTIA and RUS.
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