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		<title>Rural Telecom Associations Band Together for Unified Approach to Universal Service Reform</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[5/19/10 at 8:28 AM by Bernie Arnason There is a big fight brewing in Washington – one whose outcome will have far reaching implications for rural broadband carriers. The issue is the multi-billion dollar universal service fund, and the fight revolves around its reform. As a result, many of the leading trade associations representing the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kgpl2009.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7987912&amp;post=255&amp;subd=kgpl2009&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NTIA Completes Round One Awards With Plenty of Funds Left</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[4/27/10 at 8:19 AM by Joan Engebretson The National Telecommunications and Information Agency on April 26 announced what it said would be its final awards in Round 1 of the broadband stimulus program. With this announcement, funding for round one of the broadband stimulus program is officially closed. The nine new grants bring the total [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kgpl2009.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7987912&amp;post=250&amp;subd=kgpl2009&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RUS Receives 776 Applications for Broadband Stimulus Round Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[4/19/10 at 12:49 PM by Joan Engebretson The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) said late last week that it received 776 applications in the second round of broadband stimulus funding requesting nearly $11.2 billion. The RUS was given a total of $2.5 billion to administer in two funding rounds and awarded less than half in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kgpl2009.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7987912&amp;post=245&amp;subd=kgpl2009&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NTIA Receives Fewer Applications, $11B in Funding Requests for Round 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[4/7/10 at 4:52 PM by Joan Engebretson The National Telecommunications and Information Agency received less than half the number of applications in the second round of broadband stimulus funding than it did in Round 1. The total number of applicants in Round 2 was just 867, compared with nearly 1800 in the first round. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kgpl2009.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7987912&amp;post=242&amp;subd=kgpl2009&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>USDA Concludes Broadband Stimulus Round 1 with $22 Million Native American Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[USDA Press Release via StimulatingBroadband.com 03/30/2010 Washington &#8211; Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the selection of the Reservation Telephone Cooperative infrastructure broadband project to give rural residents of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation and the surrounding area access to improved economic and educational opportunities. The service area includes parts of Montana and North Dakota. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kgpl2009.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7987912&amp;post=239&amp;subd=kgpl2009&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announces Rural Broadband Projects to Bring Economic Opportunity to Communities in Eight States</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, March 23, 2010 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the selection of broadband infrastructure projects to give rural residents in 8 states access to improved economic and educational opportunities. Funding for the projects is being provided through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.             “The broadband projects announced today will give rural Americans [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kgpl2009.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7987912&amp;post=236&amp;subd=kgpl2009&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FCC’s National Broadband Plan Released Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[3/16/10 at 10:08 AM by Joan Engebretson  http://www.telecompetitor.com/ The National Broadband Plan, to be released today, focuses on four ways government can help ensure that every American has access to broadband. These include, 1) designing policies to ensure competition; 2) ensuring efficient management of assets such as spectrum and rights of way; 3) reforming the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kgpl2009.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7987912&amp;post=229&amp;subd=kgpl2009&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stimulus Award Momentum Growing Quickly, Latest Take is $160 Million</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[3/4/10 at 9:55 AM by Joan Engebretson The National Telecommunications and Information Agency (NTIA) has announced 23 more funding recipients under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The total value of the awards announced March 2 is more than $160 million. Fifteen of the awards went for broadband infrastructure, while six were for public computing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kgpl2009.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7987912&amp;post=226&amp;subd=kgpl2009&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FCC’s National Broadband Plan May Cost $25 Billion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[3/2/10 at 11:10 PM by Bernie Arnason In about two weeks the FCC is scheduled to deliver a national broadband plan to Congress. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 mandated that the FCC author the plan, with the idea that the billions of dollars that are being allocated to broadband infrastructure should be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kgpl2009.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7987912&amp;post=223&amp;subd=kgpl2009&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NTIA and RUS Grant Limited Extension to File Infrastructure Applications for Second Round</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, March 2, 2010 NTIA and RUS will grant a limited extension of time to file infrastructure applications in the second funding round. Specifically, applicants for BTOP Comprehensive Community Infrastructure projects will have until March 26th to file their applications to NTIA. Applicants for BIP infrastructure projects will have until March 29th to file their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kgpl2009.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7987912&amp;post=220&amp;subd=kgpl2009&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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