NTIA Awards Additional $1 Million in Grants to Tribal Groups Seeking to Expand Broadband

The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has awarded two additional grants as part of the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program. These grants, totaling nearly $1 million, are being awarded to the Yavapai-Apache Nation in Arizona and the Lac Courte Oreilles (LCO) Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians in Wisconsin. The awards will be for feasibility and planning studies to determine the best way to provide broadband services to reach 2,500 members of the Yavapai-Apache Nation and the approximately 40 percent of Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians with no internet service available to them. NTIA has now made a total of five awards totaling about $2.4 million in funding through the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program, and will announce additional program awards on a rolling basis as they go through our review process.