Applications for rural broadband experiment funding are due...
Applications for rural broadband experiment funding are due Oct. 14, the FCC Wireline Bureau said in a public notice Tuesday (http://fcc.us/1ti1vs9). The FCC is awarding up to $100 million in rural broadband experiment support (CD July 14 p11) to bring…
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next generation voice and broadband service to high-cost areas of the country, the notice said. The budget calls for $75 million for projects in high-cost areas proposing to offer broadband service at 25 Mbps downstream and 5 Mbps upstream; $15 million for projects in high-cost areas proposing to offer broadband service of 10 Mbps downstream and 1 Mbps upstream; and $10 million for projects proposing to serve extremely high-cost areas with broadband service of 10 Mbps downstream and 1 Mbps upstream, the notice said.