4/5/18Greetings all,
A couple of announcements and let's select a date for our next Region 3 Group meeting. An award announcement for the latest round of PSC Broadband Expansion Grants is expected in the next 1-2 weeks. Dunn County is Rolling-Out their Broadband Study You are invited to join Dunn County in a Community Broadband Conversion on April 26th. The event flyer is available here:
USDA Community Connect Program Deadline - May 14, 2018
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Community Connect Grant Program helps fund broadband deployment into rural communities where it is not yet economically viable for private sector providers to deliver service. Rural areas that lack any existing broadband speed of at least 10 Mbps downstream and 1 Mbps upstream are eligible, and applicants can include state and local governments, tribes, non-profits and for-profit corporations. More information is available here:
https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/community-connect-grants
State Consolidates Emergency Services-Related Broadband
As part of the state budget Gov. Scott Walker signed into law last fall, several interoperability programs — including Next Generation 911, Land Mobile Radio (LMR), WISCOM and FirstNet — were transferred to the Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs (DMA). DMA established the Office of Emergency Communications (OEC) and selected Tom Czaja as director.
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For more information about the Region 3 Broadband Implementation Group,
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