Investing in Sustainable Broadband Adoption
Intel helps bridge the digital divide, working with non-profit and private entities to make a rich, full-featured computing experience affordable to Americans in unserved and underserved communities.
Boosting the U.S. Economy with Investments in Broadband Adoption Governments around the world have increasingly recognized the powerful impact of broadband on the economic development of local communities and nations. The benefits of widespread broadband adoption include expanding economic opportunities and innovation, increasing trade and productivity, fostering investments and jobs, and enabling cost-effective delivery of critical social benefits such as education, health care, and government services.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), enacted in February 2009, provides USD 7.2 billion in stimulus funds to expand broadband deployment and adoption into unserved and underserved areas across the country.1 The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) will allocate USD 4.7 billion to support the deployment of broadband infrastructure, enhance broadband capacity at public computer centers, and encourage sustainable broadband adoption in unserved and underserved areas through its Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP). The Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP), a program of the Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS), is tasked with allocating the remaining USD 2.5 billion to support the deployment of broadband infrastructure in rural areas.
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Investing in Sustainable Broadband Adoption
Intel helps bridge the digital divide, working with non-profit and private entities to make a rich, full-featured computing experience affordable to Americans in unserved and underserved communities.
Boosting the U.S. Economy with Investments in Broadband Adoption Governments around the world have increasingly recognized the powerful impact of broadband on the economic development of local communities and nations. The benefits of widespread broadband adoption include expanding economic opportunities and innovation, increasing trade and productivity, fostering investments and jobs, and enabling cost-effective delivery of critical social benefits such as education, health care, and government services.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), enacted in February 2009, provides USD 7.2 billion in stimulus funds to expand broadband deployment and adoption into unserved and underserved areas across the country.1 The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) will allocate USD 4.7 billion to support the deployment of broadband infrastructure, enhance broadband capacity at public computer centers, and encourage sustainable broadband adoption in unserved and underserved areas through its Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP). The Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP), a program of the Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS), is tasked with allocating the remaining USD 2.5 billion to support the deployment of broadband infrastructure in rural areas.
Read the full Investing in Sustainable Broadband Adoption.
