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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In a press release NTIA announced a few more BTOP infrastructure and public computer grant awards totaling $63M. The most important part of the release is a quote from Lawrence Stricking head of NTIA: “I encourage prospective round two BTOP applicants to study the grant announcements we are currently rolling out for guidance as they [...]
The most significant change is two NoFAs and therefore two separate applications. This time the delineation is quite a bit more clear by the simple determination of being middle or last mile. NTIA BTOP is focusing on middle-mile grants connecting critical facilities, not really last-mile: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/frnotices/2010/FR_BTOPNOFA_100115.pdf RUS BIP is focusing on last-mile loan/grant combos and [...]
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 [...]
UPDATE: Thursday, August 13, 2009 The application closing deadline for the Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP) and Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) is extended until 5 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on August 20, 2009, for any electronic applications pending as of 5 p.m. ET on August 14, 2009. There are no changes to the filing instructions for [...]
It’s our fault, we found errors in the methodology USDA RUS had on the map and notified the USDA about them so they pulled it. It’s okay – it’ll be back soon hopefully, but folks need to map broadband, census and households so it only helps a bit. From broadbandusa.gov: The “BIP Map of Non-Rural [...]