264 BTOP Projects Completed as of June, NTIA Says
Sixteen Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) projects were still active and 264 had been completed as of June 30, said NTIA in its latest quarterly status report to Congress, posted Friday. From April through June, BTOP grant recipients had deployed…
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or upgraded 193 additional network miles, making the total since the program's inception 114,697 miles of network infrastructure, NTIA said. An additional 83 community anchor institutions connected during that time period, the report said. Sustainable broadband adoption projects have also generated 671,585 new subscribers over the course of the whole program, NTIA said. Four public safety grant recipients -- Colorado, New Jersey, New Mexico and Los Angeles -- have executed spectrum lease agreements with FirstNet, and, as of June 30, the recipients were working on network design and construction activities. The next quarterly report will cover July 1-Sept. 30, 2015.