An Exclusive Breaking News Report from StimulatingBroadband.com
StimulatingBroadband.com 12/16/09 San Francisco - Vice President Joseph R. Biden will announce the first grant and loan awards funded by the broadband stimulus program of the federal Recovery Act tomorrow, December 17, in the rural town of Dawsonville, Georgia.
StimulatingBroadband.com has today confirmed reports initially received yesterday that the Obama Administration will use a venue in rural Georgia to make the announcement of the first funding awards from the $7.2 billion broadband stimulus program.
The office of the Vice President has not announced Mr. Biden's travel schedule for tomorrow, as of this posting. We are however confirming that the initial reports we have had now for 24 hours have been confirmed by confidential sources in government and the communications industry in Georgia.
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This morning The Dahlongea Nugget, the weekly newspaper published from Dahlongea, Georgia, broke the story that the Vice President will be traveling to Dawsonville to "discuss how Recovery Act investments are improving communities and creating jobs in Georgia and rural areas across the country."
StimulatingBroadband.com will be updating this story as information becomes available.
2 comments:
Hopefully the Federal Government will listen to the messages being sent in Virginia, Delaware and now Massechusetts.
This is tax payer money being handed out as Stimulus. The Feds shouldn't be picking winners and losers in this process. The money should go to the people. Cash for clunkers was the right model, why not cash for broadband. Let the people test there own ethics to see if they want to dip into the pockets of their fellow Americans and use this money or let it sit so we don't put a large burden on the tax payers.
If you dig into this stuff the money is going to large established institutions like utilities, hospitals, municipalities, private and public higher eductation.
If they are listening all current programs should be put on hold, reworked and relaunched with one goal in mind. Empower the masses, don't line the pockets of established party backers.
Anonymous - I don't think that your comments are accurate.
First off, the goal of these grants is to create infrastructure that would for the FIRST time give folks in rural hard-to-reach areas ACCESS to broadband. Just giving those folks money, without the infrastructure would be pointless because they wouldn't be able to buy either Broadband OR infrastructure. If BB service providers thought it would be profitable to build the necessary infrastructure themselves to reach these rural folks, they would have done so. The point of this project is to create incentives for companies to build the infrastructure.
Also, the government has awarded grants under these program mostly to local small businesses trying to develop a rural customer base.
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