NTIA’s Q2 status report on 233 broadband grants addresses overbuilding. That’s...
NTIA’s Q2 status report on 233 broadband grants addresses overbuilding. That’s been an issue some telcos and cable operators that didn’t get money from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to build broadband projects have raised (CD Sept 27…
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p6). “As of June 2012, NTIA has resolved 97 percent of the instances of potential overlap between a BTOP award and another BTOP, BIP, or FCC award,” NTIA said in its 14th quarterly status report on Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) grantees to Congress Thursday (http://1.usa.gov/Rggcaz). The 15-page report covers April 1 to June 30, which featured what the agency called “strong performance” among grantees in meeting 2012 goals. The remaining 3 percent of BTOP grants where overbuilding was alleged “will be resolved through ongoing negotiations with recipients seeking ways to leverage the respective investments, such as joint-build solutions,” NTIA said. Grantees deployed nearly 15,000 network miles in Q2 for a total of more than 72,000, NTIA said. They spent $420 million and matched nearly $125 million, it added. The agency spotlighted specific projects, such as ones in Oklahoma and Maryland, with a section on the seven public safety BTOP grantees suspended in May due to concerns about compatibility with FirstNet. NTIA discussed the ways it monitors and corresponds with grantees and noted it’s visited 31 grantees in the past quarter. It also addressed how to close the various grants, which were awarded in 2010 and expected to expire in 2013.