19
Aug/090

Navajo Nation (NTUA) seeking RUS Experienced Team

Navajo Nation is seeking RUS expertise to help with Broadband on the Navajo Nation. Be aware that expertise most likely includes actual experience with writing and managing past Rural Utility Service (USDA RUS) projects.

NAVAJO TRIBAL UTILITY AUTHORITY
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL: ENGINEERING SERVICES – LHV 230 kV
The Navajo Tribal Utility Authority (NTUA) is hereby contacting qualified Engineering firms who are knowledgeable in Rural Utility Services (RUS) rules and regulations and who are interested in providing Engineering Services to NTUA.
Inquiries regarding this RFP may be obtained from Srinivasa Venigalla, Electric Planning Engineer, HQ-Engineering & Technical Services at (928) 729-6281 or email srinivasav@ntua.com
Instructions and Scope of work can be obtained from Avis Jimm, Purchasing Agent, HQ-Purchasing Department at (928) 729-6243 or email avisj@ntua.com, or the NTUA Purchasing Department North Route 12, Fort Defiance, Arizona 86504.
Proposals shall be submitted in a sealed envelope clearly marked “DO NOT OPEN – ENGINEERING SERVICES – LHV 230 kV” and received by Thursday, September 17, 2008 at 4:30 PM, DST at the following destination:
PHYSICAL ADDRESS:
Navajo Tribal Utility Authority, ATTN: Avis Jimm, Purchasing Department, North Navajo Route 12, Fort Defiance, Arizona 86504.
MAILING ADDRESS:
Navajo Tribal Utility Authority, ATTN: Avis Jimm, Purchasing Department, Post Office Box 170, Fort Defiance, Arizona 86504.
Preference will be given to Navajo and other Indian-owned firms that qualify for preference pursuant to the Navajo Nation Business Opportunity Act (5 N.N.C. § 201, et seq.) and the Navajo Preference in Employment Act (15 N.N.C. § 601, et seq.).
Firms mailing their proposals shall allow sufficient time for mail delivery to ensure receipt by the due date and time. Facsimiled or electronic mailed proposals will not be accepted.
To be Published in The NAVAJO TIMES August 13, 20, 2009.

Navajo Times.

Filed under: USDA Broadband Program
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25
Jun/090

Navajo Broadband Map : and partner list

The broadband map is great – the partnership list is weak and needs to include more local firms. After all someone has to keep this running in the long term. The estimate is that the NN tribe sees this as a pseudo extension of NTUA and not as a private project with Navajo companies prospering.

NN Fiber Map

NN Fiber Map

Navajo June 9 2009 seminar – training.

Filed under: Economic Stimulus 2009, USDA Broadband Program
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21
Jun/090

Economic Development and Navajo Broadband

The more we talk about broadband on the Navajo Nation the better the final result will become – it would be great to get more opinions from community members and schools officials on their requests.

Broadband as Economic Development (Friday, June 19,2009)
Speaker: Roz Boxer, Director of Special Projects, Department of Commerce

Discussions on how to think about Broadband Internet as a tool for community development. Leveraging funding sources to establish Broadband Internet to showcase a community and how historical sites can be cornerstones in this process.

Arguing for Preservation 2009.

Filed under: Economic Stimulus 2009, USDA Broadband Program
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22
May/090

Broadband Dollars – Work Quickly : BTOP Deadlines

Broadband Stimulus funding for the Navajo Nation and all others is coming more quickly than expected [initial broadband awards June 2009 and December 2009].

Work fast to get your grants and paperwork submitted. Consider collaboration opportunities with both private and public entities to improve your odds of success.

  • Procurement for Grants Program Assistance Services March – June 2009
  • Preparation for Initial Solicitation for Proposals April – June 2009
  • Initial Proposal Processing and Review Sept – Dec. 2009
  • Initial Grant Awards Made December 2009
  • Second Solicitation for Proposals Oct – Dec 2009
  • Third Solicitation for Proposals April – June 2010
  • All Awards to Be Made September 2010
Milestone Completion Date
Award Contract for Grants Program Support 2009-06-30
Initial Grant Awards Made 2009-12-31
All Awards to Be Made 2010-09-30

DOC – Program Plan | Recovery.gov.

Filed under: USDA Broadband Program
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17
May/090

New Mexico Integrated Strategic Broadband Initiative

Call Richard Lowenberg at 505-603-5200 to learn more about fast internet in NM

The New Mexico Integrated Strategic Broadband Initiative (NM-ISBI) serves as the strategic guidance for the approach being used by the State. In this approach, the State will aggregate its demand and serve as the “anchor” for ensuring broadband access in sufficient bandwidth is available to public institutions in over 90 communities throughout the state.

New Mexico Recovery & Reinvestment Initiative.

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Filed under: Economic Stimulus 2009, USDA Broadband Program
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17
May/090

Recapping The Benton Foundation’s Best-of-Breed Stimulus Event In DC

Is the entire country unserved with true broadband (fiber)

The most powerful statement Bill made was the observation that virtually the entire US is unserved.

A long-time leader and tireless advocate for public media, the Benton Foundation’s goal was to elevate discussions around how broadband stimulus dollars should be spent beyond the theoretical to shine a spotlight on specific applications that embody the kinds of projects these funds should be supporting.

via App-Rising.

Filed under: Economic Stimulus 2009, USDA Broadband Program
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8
Apr/090

Navajo Broadband: BTOP Comment: NNTRC

Deswood Tome from Navajo Telecommunications and Regulatory (NNTRC.org) posted these comments for BTOP. It is intersting to read the comments about how the Navajo Nation should be funded as a single entity and how they should receive priority over single state funding and private business applications.

Excerpt about Navajo Broadband and BTOP funding

  1. an entire reservation should be considered a single “area” for purposes of determining whether that area [qualifies]
  2. Tribal Entities Should Have Priority over Private Service Providers for Funding Projects in Indian Country
  3. The Navajo Nation urges that Indian tribes be considered on the same footing as states in consideration of broadband funding.

BTOP Comment | Web Form Comment.

Filed under: Economic Stimulus 2009, USDA Broadband Program
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20
Mar/090

Impact of Navajo Nation Telecommunications Regulatory Commission

It will be interesting to see how the NNTRC is able to collaborate with vendors on USDA Rural broadband programs and BTOP to extend broadband access.

The core strength of the NNTRC could be to leverage existing Navajo Nation assets for mounting equipment. A working relationship for vendors with the NNTRC and NTUA (Navajo Tribal Utility Authority) could provide access to significant microwave backhaul throughout the Navajo Nation.

NNTRC is also the group that organizes Right of Way (ROW) and equipment Collocation. Yearly NNTRC collocation fees are $2951.03 in areas with population count less than 100,000 and $4,721.66 in areas with up to 299,000.

Their collocation services focus on: Enhanced Specialized Mobile Radio (ESMR), Improved Mobile Telephone Service (IMTS), Air-to-Ground, Offshore Radio, Telephone Service, Cell Site Extenders, and Local Multipoint Distribution Services.

via Navajo Nation Telecommunications Regulatory Commission

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19
Mar/090

USDA Telecommunications Program

USDA Rural Development continues to provide many programs for financing rural America’s telecommunications infrastructure. The Traditional Telephone Loan program consists of hardship, cost of money, and guaranteed loans that finance voice telephone service. Since 1995, every telephone line this program has constructed has also been capable of providing broadband service using digital subscriber loop (DSL) technology.

The Broadband Access Loan program provides loans for funding the costs of construction, improvement, and acquisition of facilities to provide broadband service to eligible rural communities. The Distance Learning and Telemedicine program continues its charge of bringing electronic educational resources to rural schools and improving health care delivery in rural America. Lastly, the Community Connect Grant program provides financial assistance to eligible applicants that will provide currently unserved areas with broadband service that fosters economic growth and public safety services.

Based on a survey of Rural Development’s traditional telephone loan program borrowers conducted in October 2006, approximately 92% of these borrowers are providing high-speed Internet service (”broadband”) to all of the telephone exchanges in their service territories.

via USDA Telecommunications Program.

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18
Mar/090

WiMAX used to bring dial tone to Navajo reservation

March 18, 2009 — 11:06pm ET | By Lynnette Luna

Sacred Wind Communications in northwestern New Mexico is building a fixed WiMAX network using Fujitsu equipment in the 3.65 GHz band to extend phone and broadband access to some 8,500 households–most of which are on a Navajo reservation–that are spread out across thousands of square miles. Sacred Wind is spending $70-million on the project. Only about 29 percent of the households it plans to cover have basic dial tone service.

Sacred Wind aims to have more than 90 percent of the population connected to voice and broadband through some combination of copper, fiber and wireless point-to-point and point-to-multipoint technologies. The first phase of the project was funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service; it delivered voice and high-speed data to 70 previously unconnected homes.

via WiMAX used to bring dial tone to Navajo reservation – FierceBroadbandWireless.

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