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The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) recently requested comments from concerned Internet entities regarding the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' (ICANN) performance of Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Functions. ICANN currently holds a contract with the NTIA to that is set to expire in September of 2011 …
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The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) have announced through their respective websites that all applications selected to receive a reward under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 have been notified. This officially concludes the application and selection process. For those of us …
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a href="{tag}arra"></a>Both the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) have made American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Round 2 application data available. The RUS is currently distributing their BIP application information in a PDF directory. The NTIA, on the other hand …
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The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) have officially posted a BIP / BTOP Application Mapping Tool. You may remember that this information was available for a short time before being pulled off the RUS website. One of the intentions of this tool is to provide …
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Although it is no longer working at the time of this writing, the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) had made a searchable database of applicant project proposals for the Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP) and the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) available on the USDA site. Unlike the database that is currently …
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The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and Rural Utilities Service (RUS) have made a searchable database of Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP) and Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) applications available online. The database is meant to give the public an opportunity to research projects that affect them directly. Unfortunately, although …
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A week after the official deadline for electronic submission of applications for the Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP) and the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP), the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) revealed today that nearly 2,200 applicants have requested \$28 billion in funding. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act …
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Good news today for service providers planning to file an electronic application for either the Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP) or Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP). The deadline for electronic applications has been extended from 5 p.m. ET on August 14, 2009 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on …
