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Minnesotans apply for $388 million in BTOP grants/loans

A great set of proposals from Minnesota!  $283m in grants plus $105m in loans.  I guess there's some unmet need in this state after all.  :-)

But the total amount applied for was around $28 billion, so our $388 million represents about 1.4% of the total and falls short of 2% of the total (assuming equal money per state) or 1.8% of the total (measuring Minnesota's population as a proportion of the US total).  So we're not quite above-average yet peepul.

Click HERE for a "canned" search of the NTIA applications database that was just released -- this search shows all the apps from Minnesota and is where I got that "headline" number.

Click HERE for the page where you can formulate your own search.

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One Response to “Minnesotans apply for $388 million in BTOP grants/loans”

  1. christopher mitchell Says:
    September 11th, 2009 at 12:08 pm

    Yes. There is much unmet need. Let us hope we do not pay to expand DSL networks that already underserve their subscribers to a larger percentage of the population. Public money should require some forward thinking to ensure it isn't squandered on already deprecated technology.

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