US Ignite
What can the Infrastructure Bill offer Smart Communities?
US Ignite invited Gigi Sohn, Distinguished Fellow at the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy and a Benton Senior Fellow & Public Advocate, to brief leaders of US Ignite Communities on the Infrastructure Bill.
US Ignite and Project OVERCOME Select Seven Communities for National Science Foundation-Funded Broadband Awards
US Ignite awarded grants to seven communities for Project OVERCOME, a $2.7 million effort designed to connect the unconnected through novel broadband technology solutions. The U.S.
Project OVERCOME will Accelerate Novel Broadband Deployments in Underserved Communities
Project OVERCOME, a National Science Foundation- (NSF-) funded effort, will accelerate the delivery of broadband services to unserved and underserved communities. The project has received an NSF grant award (Award # CNS-2044448) of $1.945 million, which will support the selection and buildout of five proof-of-concept network deployments designed to connect both rural and urban communities in novel ways. US Ignite will oversee the selection process as well as the build-out phase of the winning concept proposals.
Broadband Models for Unserved and Underserved Communities
A description of five viable models for municipally enabled broadband. Eight percent of US markets are “well served” with broadband are “municipally enabled.” The other 92% of well-served municipalities get broadband from private service providers. Moving forward, however, public and hybrid networks may be a viable alternative for bringing broadband to communities that are not well served, researchers said. The researchers estimate that there are 6,500 such communities nationwide. The five models for municipally enabled broadband: