Request For Assistance: State Preferred Broadband Stimulus Projects to the NTIA

WASHINGTON,

November 19th, 2009 – BroadbandBreakfast.com has been investigating broadband stimulus projects and focusing on  the preferred projects from the states. We still lack letters to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration – or notices that states are demanding confidentiality for their letters – from 13 states and territories.

The first person to send any letters from the following states will get a complimentary seat at the

December 8 Broadband Breakfast Club at Clyde’s of Gallery Place at 707 7th Street NW, Washington, DC. The breakfast runs from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., and the topic is “Setting the Table for the National Broadband Plan:

Bridging the Digital Divide.” Information about the event, and registration, is available at http://broadbandbreakfast.eventbrite.com.

BroadbandBreakfast.com has not received either a notice of confidentiality or a copy of the letter from the state to the NTIA from:

• American Samoa
• Arkansas
• Delaware
• District of Columbia
• Guam
• Iowa
• Louisiana
• Mississippi
• New Jersey
• New Mexico
• North Dakota
• Puerto Rico
• Rhode Island

Please send letters to MacRae@BroadbandCensus.com.

Here is an up-to-date list of where the other states stand:

Confidential or not Public at this time: Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota Northern Mariana Islands, and South Dakota.

We have letters from: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington State, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

–Updated November 19, 2009 — AM