Yesterday, US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today announced 10 new ARRA broadband stimulus awards. The total investment is more than $63 million in grants. The goal is to increase broadband access and adoption in more than a dozen states, including two that will help boost broadband adoption in Minnesota. One of the grants was awarded [...]
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Today the Minnesota Legislature passed the Minnesota Broadband Bill. Here are the highlights:
Universal access and high-speed goal. It is the goal of this state that, no later than 2015, all state residents and businesses have access to broadband that provides download speeds of no less than ten megabits per second and upload speeds of no [...]
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CTAC President Bill Coleman was recently quoted on Minnesota Public Radio for a story on Google’s Network competition. Here is what he said about the benefits of a ultra high speed broadband connection, such as the one Google is proposing…
The network would be 10 times faster than today’s state-of-the-art networks, such as a 100-megabit system [...]
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Here is an article by Bill Coleman recently printed in Blandin’s eNews:
While the H1N1 virus seems to be in remission, we are now witnessing the renewal of RUS BIP and NTIA BTOP fever. The NTIA BTOP CCI is especially contagious. The prescribed medication is demand aggregation, a concept that has driven community broadband planning for [...]
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CTAC Founder Bill Coleman is featured in a recent article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune on broadband, The Net has a few Holes in Minnesota. The article promotes broadband in rural area by highlighting communities and residents who have benefited from broadband.
But as Bill pointed out in the article, “Making Internet available is just part [...]
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