FCC Prepared To Grant $2.8 Million for Further Rural Broadband Experiments
The FCC is ready to authorize more than $2.8 million for rural broadband experiments by Northeast Rural Services and BARC Electric Cooperative, a Wireline Bureau public notice said Tuesday in docket 14-259. NRS would receive almost $2.6 million for two…
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experiments in Oklahoma covering 228 census blocks, and BARC Electric would receive about $239,918 for one experiment in Virginia covering 64 census blocks. To be authorized, the entities must submit "at least one acceptable irrevocable stand-by letter of credit and Bankruptcy Code opinion letter from their legal counsel" by Oct. 14, the bureau said. BARC Electric subsidiary BARConnects was recently designated as an eligible telecom carrier able to receive funding support (see 1509280042">1509280042).