New York gave $5 million in grants to nine public- private partne...
New York gave $5 million in grants to nine public- private partnerships to extend broadband service. Recipients were picked from 50 applicants. Three projects account for about half the awards. The Office of Technology Council for Universal Broadband grants…
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include a $1.3 million project by New Visions Powerline Communications to develop a broadband over power lines plan to serve 12,600 households in five Onondaga County towns. Tech Valley Communications got $937,000 to extend the Albany Free Net into unserved neighborhoods to support city digital literacy efforts and online workforce training. Mount Hope Housing Corp. got $500,000 to provide free broadband access to residents of Bronx Community District 5 and to set up an operations center to provide broadband digital literacy training to community college students who in turn will teach those skills to children. The $5 million in grants provided seed money to generate $15 million in matching cash and in-kind contributions by entities running the nine projects. Next fiscal year’s budget proposes tripling grant funds to $15 million.