Following Vice President Joe Biden’s announcement of the availability of $4 billion in loans and grants to bring broadband to underserved communities, a trade group composed of wireless broadband companies commended leaders in Washington, D.C.

 

Officials with the Wireless Communications Association International, which is headquartered in the nation’s capital, praised President Barack Obama’s administration for taking what they called “a critical step toward bringing broadband access to rural America.

 

According to the group’s president, Fred Campbell, wireless broadband the only platform that provides access everywhere, all the time, wireless broadband is essential to achieving universal broadband connectivity, creating jobs and encouraging economic growth. WCAI members are eager to begin the broadband stimulus application process and get to work building a better America.”

 

WCAI – whose mantra is “Broadband Everywhere, All the Time” – describes itself as a neutral trade association that “exists to advance economic opportunity for the wireless broadband industry worldwide.”

 

This is the first round of the funding NTIA and RUS will disburse under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

WCAI will hold a member-only Webinar on July 8 to analyze the broadband stimulus NoFA released by the NTIA and the RUS today and brief the members on the next steps they need to take to apply for the broadband stimulus funds.