Line in the Sand on U.S. Virgin Islands Broadband Initiative

The following release came to my inbox.  There are a number of items addressed there, but I have highlighted info pertinent to the Broadband Initiative and the risk we have of losing out on this nationwide infrastructure-enhancing project.  From what I can see, our government is “on it” – but we have until Oct. 3, 2011 to get compliant or get out…

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The USVI Broadband Initiative – Who’s got this?

The United States Virgin Islands finally has a way to reach out and pull itself closer to the rest of the world – the USVI Broadband Initiative.  Now that the territory has qualified for a grant from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration of the US Department of Commerce, it’s all a matter of breaking ground and laying cable, right?  Wrong. 

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