Keenwire supports the ATNI and its member tribes in their efforts to maintain tribal sovereignty and to create and enhance critical communications infrastructure on and around tribal lands. The ’13 Conference was hosted by the Chehalis Tribe at the Great Wolf Lodge and Lucky Eagle Casino. Keenwire presented at the Telecom Subcommittee with an FCC 2012 [...]
We are proud to announce that our client, the Nisqually Tribe, held a public meeting to inform the community about their tribal broadband network and to hand out modems. After months of successful beta-testing by users of both indoor and outdoor WiMAX modems in the 2.5GHz EBS band, the tribe launched the network and handed out modems to tribal members [...]
The Quinault Indian Nation today approved a budget to deploy a 100-mile microwave network to address their most pressing needs. The microwave network was a critical recommendation by Keenwire in the broadband plan created as part of a 2010 USDA RUS BIP Technical Assistance grant. The microwave network will provide a 500Mbps connection to the [...]
Keenwire is exhibiting at the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI) Winter Conference 2012 in Shelton, WA from February 13-16, 2012. Appropriately, the FCC is set up in the booth next to us! Showing a clear dedication to our relationships in the northwest, Keenwire is the only broadband communications consultant with vendor space at the tribal conference with [...]
Thank you to the Quinault Indian Nation for selecting Keenwire in a competitive bidding process to help fulfill the directives of their their USDA RUS Technical Assistance Grant, awarded by the RUS as part of the ARRA BIP Broadband Stimulus Program, Round Two. Keenwire will provide; current broadband inventory, stakeholder needs assessment, infrastructure solutions, feasibility [...]
Congratulations to our client, the Florida Rural Broadband Alliance! Keenwire is proud to have assisted in the Round 2 BTOP award success for FRBA. The award was announced yesterday: a BTOP Round 2 award of $24M, with nearly $10.5M in matching contributions. Keenwire staff facilitated FRBA in: •Feasibility Study •Modeling and Design •Engineering •GIS Mapping [...]
Congratulations to Rivada SeaLion for being a featured project in the announcement from the President’s office and one of the first grants awarded in the nation as announced by Vice President Joe Biden. Members of our team assisted with the Round One grant application and Step Two diligence which was noted by RUS as “100% [...]
Keenwire is excited to announce another one of our client’s applications has been escalated to Step Two of the approvals phase for the Broadband Stimulus. this comes as another early select of a handful of project selections. North Florida Broadband Authority (NFBA) Memorandum to Board For Keenwire this is one Last Mile and one Middle [...]
One of our clients, Rivada SeaLion, was just notified today that their application has passed Round One of the RUS BIP / NTIA BTOP broadband stimulus application process and deemed meritous enough to head into Step Two diligence! Round Two is coming up quickly with the RFI in a couple of weeks and a NOFA [...]
DEADLINE 6/19/09 With the assistance of Keenwire our clients successfully submitted over $3M in grant applications across 4 states to the USDA RUS under the Community Connect program, which NOFA totaled $13M in available funds. The Community Connect program is NOT a stimulus-related program but rather an annual program by the USDA RUS for the [...]