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July 2021

Sponsor 

National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Department of Commerce

Date 
Thu, 10/21/2021 - 14:30

NTIA will host webinars in connection with the three new broadband grant programs authorized and funded by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021: The Broadband Infrastructure Program, the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program, and the Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program. The webinars are designed to help prospective applicants understand the grant programs and to assist applicants to prepare high quality grant applications.

NTIA will offer webinars on the following dates:

1. Broadband Infrastructure Program:


Sponsor 

National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Department of Commerce

Date 
Wed, 10/20/2021 - 14:30

NTIA will host webinars in connection with the three new broadband grant programs authorized and funded by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021: The Broadband Infrastructure Program, the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program, and the Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program. The webinars are designed to help prospective applicants understand the grant programs and to assist applicants to prepare high quality grant applications.

NTIA will offer webinars on the following dates:

1. Broadband Infrastructure Program:


Sponsor 

National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Department of Commerce

Date 
Thu, 09/23/2021 - 14:30

NTIA will host webinars in connection with the three new broadband grant programs authorized and funded by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021: The Broadband Infrastructure Program, the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program, and the Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program. The webinars are designed to help prospective applicants understand the grant programs and to assist applicants to prepare high quality grant applications.

NTIA will offer webinars on the following dates:

1. Broadband Infrastructure Program:


Sponsor 

National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Department of Commerce

Date 
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 14:30

NTIA will host webinars in connection with the three new broadband grant programs authorized and funded by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021: The Broadband Infrastructure Program, the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program, and the Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program. The webinars are designed to help prospective applicants understand the grant programs and to assist applicants to prepare high quality grant applications.

NTIA will offer webinars on the following dates:

1. Broadband Infrastructure Program:


Sponsor 

National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Department of Commerce

Date 
Thu, 08/19/2021 - 14:30

NTIA will host webinars in connection with the three new broadband grant programs authorized and funded by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021: The Broadband Infrastructure Program, the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program, and the Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program. The webinars are designed to help prospective applicants understand the grant programs and to assist applicants to prepare high quality grant applications.

NTIA will offer webinars on the following dates:

1. Broadband Infrastructure Program:


Sponsor 

National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Department of Commerce

Date 
Wed, 08/18/2021 - 14:30

NTIA will host webinars in connection with the three new broadband grant programs authorized and funded by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021: The Broadband Infrastructure Program, the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program, and the Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program. The webinars are designed to help prospective applicants understand the grant programs and to assist applicants to prepare high quality grant applications.

NTIA will offer webinars on the following dates:

1. Broadband Infrastructure Program:


The holiday break's over. Will Democrats act?

Nearly one-fourth of American households lack broadband access. A water main breaks every two minutes. With child-care costs soaring, more than 1 million workers—largely women—have been driven out of the economy, even as the economy reopens. Are Democrats ready to act? That is the critical question as Congress returns from its holiday break. While President Biden is selling the bipartisan infrastructure deal as a “generational investment,” the real effort will come from using the budget reconciliation process to pass vitally needed public investments with Democratic votes only.

A Promising Model for Expanding Internet Access in Rural Vermont

Internet connectivity in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom is downright medieval by modern telecommunication standards. With the exception of a handful of homes in more densely populated communities, the only choice for most folks living in the rural environs of the Northeast Kingdom is between DSL and satellite. That’s all changing now thanks to one of the state’s nascent Communication Union Districts (CUD), enabled by a 2015 Vermont law that allows two or more towns to join together as a municipal entity to build communication infrastructure.

Coalition of organizations urges against higher-power CBRS rules

A coalition including Charter Communications, WISPA and public interest groups wrote a letter to the Federal Communications Commission urging the agency to reject proposals to increase power limits in the shared Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band, saying it would favor macro cell deployments only and jeopardize existing deployments. Other signatories voicing strong opposition to changes in the band include the Open Technology Institute, Pu

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