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Why Broadband for Agriculture? Just because...
Just because...

  • We care that the American farmer has been disenfranchised from the internet.
  • We care that in terms of internet years connectivity speeds for the rural population is stuck on 1999
  • We care that economically viable companies are leaving rural areas because of the poor access to broadband
  • We care that most broadband companies can't afford to build anything where the population per square mile is less than 2,000
  • We care that the US ranks 25th in the world in percentage of population on high speed internet connections. See Graph below.
  • We care that rural connectivity is 1/2 of the US Household Average.
  • We care that the Japanese broadband is 17 times faster than the US broadband at 1/2 the price.


 
Mission and Objectives

Field

The Broadband Alliance is an organization that develops education and advocacy programs to make affordable internet broadband available. While we believe that everyone globally should have high speed internet access, our focus initially is on the United States and more specifically American agriculture.
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Broadband Alliance News
ARRA Round 2
Application for Round 1 grant not approved.

January 20, 2010: the National Telecommunications and Information Administration annouced that the application from the Broadband Alliance would not be funded in Round 1. The reason cited was inadequate documentation of matching funds.

Note: We arein the process of competing an application for Round 2 funding and will have our matching funds documented.

 
Texas Selects Broadband Alliance

October 14, 2009; Texas Department of Agriculture and Public Utility Commission of Texas today announced that the Broadband Alliance for Agricultures application to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration was one of 11 Sustainable Adoption projects that were recommended as having a positive impact on the state of Texas.
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Kansas Green Lights Broadband Alliance

Kansas GREEN LIGHTS Broadband Alliance Project

October 16, 2009; The Broadband Alliance received notification from the Kansas Department of Commerce - Broadband Initiative that it's training project submitted under the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration had received a 'green light'. The GREEN LIGHT status is a formal recommendation to the NTIA to strongly consider the Broadband Alliance's applicaiton.
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$7.2 Billion available for Broadband
VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN LAUNCHES INITIATIVE TO BRING BROADBAND, JOBS TO MORE AMERICANS
Announces Availability Of The $4 Billion In Recovery Act Loans And Grants To Increase Broadband Access And Adoption

WATTSBURG, Pa., July 1, 2009 – Vice President Biden today announced the availability of $4 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act loans and grants to help bring broadband service to un-served and underserved communities across America. This is the first round of Recovery Act funding aimed at expanding broadband access to help bridge the technological divide and create jobs building out Internet infrastructure.

Vice President Biden was joined today by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski and Congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper at Seneca High School, the first stop on the President's National Rural Tour.
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