Tribe hopes to cast a wider Web (fwd link)

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October 13, 2009

Tribe hopes to cast a wider Web
Coeur d’Alenes among applicants for federal broadband funding

Joelle Tessler
Associated Press

WASHINGTON – The federal government will soon start handing out the first
$4 billion from a pot of stimulus funds intended to spread high-speed
Internet connections to more rural communities, poor neighborhoods and other
pockets of the country clamoring for better access. The challenge is that the
government has received $28 billion in requests.

So the reviewers at the Commerce and Agriculture departments who will award the
broadband money must make hard choices. The 2,200 applications each envision
something different – more fiber-optic lines, for example, or computer labs or
municipal wireless networks. But they all promise that their proposals will
create jobs and new economic opportunities.

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