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The Wireless Telecommunications Bureau’s Rural Wireless Community VISION Program

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Officials at the Federal Communications Commission and the Agriculture Department's Rural Utilities Service (RUS) are working on a program to boost the use of broadband wireless technologies in rural areas.

The Rural Wireless Community VISION program, the latest effort of the Joint Federal Rural Wireless Outreach Initiative, will put staff from the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB) on-site with RUS loan-grant officers and regional field representatives to help communities deploy wireless broadband systems.

Communities that want to participate in the program will be chosen according the impact they make on FCC and RUS officials in a two-to-five-page essay describing how they see the community benefiting from that broadband wireless connectivity.

For information see: http://wireless.fcc.gov/outreach/ruralvision/index.html.

 
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