Speaking as someone from Maine, and who knows a bit about what that plan entails, it is an excellent project.
On 12/17/09 2:10 PM, Robert West wrote: > On the outside, that all sounds like reasonable choices and towards the > actual goal. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Matt Liotta > Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 1:41 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: [WISPA] stimulus announcements thus far > > A $33.5 million grant to the North Georgia Network Cooperative for a > fiber-optic ring that will bring high-speed Internet connections to > the northern Georgia foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. The > project will serve an eight-county area with a population of 334,000. > > A $25.4 million grant to the Biddleford Internet Corp., a partnership > between the University of Maine and service providers, to build three > fiber-optic rings across rural Maine. The network will pass through > more than 100 communities with 110,000 households and will connect 10 > University of Maine campuses. > > A combined grant/loan of $2.4 million to the Consolidated Electric > Cooperative in north central Ohio to build a 166-mile fiber network > that will be used, among other things, to connect 16 electrical > substations to support a smart grid project. > > A 4G wireless network to be built by an Alaska Native Corporation in > southwestern Alaska, a fiber-to-the-home project in a remote corner of > New Hampshire and computer centers for 84 libraries in Arizona. > > -Matt > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- Josh Cheney [email protected] http://www.joshcheney.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
