[kittymyrib]

Who got this outrageous amount of money in Montana? There should be an investigation, because certainly fraud had to be involved.

[microgood]

Who got this outrageous amount of money in Montana? There should be an investigation, because certainly fraud had to be involved.

I would not be surprised if this was just another day in the office for a bureaucrat. In the government, you have to spend all the money by a certain date. This probably got the bureaucrat a lot of money spent with little work on his/her part. A no brainer.

[kcvl]

The Recovery Act authorized the following five uses of these broadband funds:

$2.5 billion for RUS to extend loans, loan/grant combinations, and grants to broadband infrastructure projects, where at least 75 percent of an RUS-funded area is in a rural area that lacks sufficient access to high speed broadband service to facilitate rural economic development;
 
$4.7 billion to NTIA to provide grants for infrastructure and programmatic broadband initiatives throughout the United States, including unserved and underserved areas;
 
$200 million to NTIA for competitive grants for expanding public computer center capacity;
 
$250 million to NTIA for competitive grants for innovative programs to encourage sustainable adoption of broadband services;
 
$350 million to NTIA to fund the State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program authorized by the Broadband Data Improvement Act, and to support the development and maintenance of a nationwide broadband map for use by policymakers and consumers.

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http://recovery.mt.gov/commerce/broadband/default.mcpx

[MindBender26]

Check out reply #27