NTIA Gives Out $11.9 in Grants to Two Illinois Counties

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

he bucks continue to fly out of the National
Telecommunications & Information Administration.

On Friday (Feb. 19), NTIA announced it has
given out another $11.9 million in broadband stimulus grants, the latest to DeKalb
County and portions of LaSalle
County, both in Illinois.

The money will go, in part, to providing 10 Mbps-10 Gbps backbone broadband
speeds to anchor institutions and other ISPs to serve unserved and underserved
households.

That followed Thursday's
announcement of $357 million in grants to eight states.

NTIA and the USDA are handing out over $7
billion in grants and loans for broadband deployment, adoption and mapping
throughout the stimulus program.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.