berimbau
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 Posted: 17 Jun 2005 09:12 PM Post subject: FCC grants for rural cities to offer wireless service |
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The FCC has grants to allow rural municipalities to offer advanced wireless communications service, even for free...anyone want to help me out in the writing of this grant?
http://wireless.fcc.gov/outreach/ruralvision/
ISP's don't like this, of course: "ISPs Attempt to Stop Public Broadband " http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/pcworld/20050618/tc_pcworld/121416
The Wireless Telecommunications Bureau’s Rural Wireless Community VISION Program was created to accelerate access to advanced wireless telecommunications across rural America. Access to e-commerce, e-government, telemedicine, and distance learning translate into better jobs, more responsive government, improved health care, greater educational opportunities, and a brighter future for all Americans....
Rural communities will be chosen to participate in the VISION Program on the basis of a two to five page VISION Essay which describes the community’s vision for wireless connectivity and services and how the community will benefit from this vision. A joint team of experts from the Federal Communications Commission’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and the United States Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service will score the community’s VISION Essay, as described in the Rural Wireless Community VISION Program Essay Guidelines. |
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