Broadband Workshops

The NOFA is officially out, and the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service (RUS) are hosting a series of public broadband grant workshops to guide us. This is our opportunity to find out about the application process for $4 billion in broadband grants and loans under the Recovery Act.

July 17, 2009
Billings, MT
Holiday Inn Grand Montana
5500 Midland Rd
Billings, MT 59101
888-465-4329

July 21, 2009
Minneapolis, MN
Crowne Plaza St. Paul - Riverfront
11 East Kellogg Blvd.
St. Paul, MN 55101
800-593-5708

July 23, 2009
Albuquerque, NM
Marriott Albuquerque Pyramid North
5151 San Francisco Road NE
Albuquerque, NM 87109
800-262-2043

July 24, 2009
Los Angeles, CA
Omni Los Angeles Hotel at California Plaza
251 S. Olive St
Los Angeles, CA 90012
888-444-6664

The deadline for the first grant round is coming up soon - August 14th, 2009.

You can register for any of the workshops online here.

If you can't make they have also posted their workshop presentations here, as well as the grant applications.

I will be attending the workshop in Billings this week and will update this site with any new information they announce.