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The CAF, Connect America Fund. Brought to you by the FCC! WOW! A fund to help subsidize the growth of the rural areas in the USA so that we may have broadband everywhere. While most people are not in favor of the tax money being used for this, I think it\u2019s good for the industry. Yes, anything to help people deploy more broadband to spark the economy in those areas without broadband can be seen as a good thing. It\u2019s not a new idea, but maybe now we can break the barriers that stopped us before, like budgets. I support growth and bringing high-speed wireless affordable internet to all. While you may not think about this if you\u2019re in an urban or suburban area, I was raised in a very rural farming community. For them to get internet access is huge.<\/p>\n

For a list of products to support Wade4Wireless, click here!<\/a><\/h2>\n

To put the rural areas into perspective farmers are on the cutting edge of technology. They are constantly looking for better yields from their crops. That means that they are looking at everything from weather patterns, soil moisture, pests, and so on. Not only that but they also have tractors that can tun themselves using GPS tracking, yes, self-driving tractors. Did I mention that they also track their animals? You get the picture. Now you have one farmer, using wireless, data, and GPS to track pest, weather, herds, and their self-driving vehicles in the fields. Farming got high-tech, and most of you didn\u2019t realize it. It\u2019s where all the technologies meet, and big data is crucial.<\/p>\n

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Now, what about all the smart people that are in rural areas that may need broadband? Now they have the opportunity thanks to these grants. Schoolkids that have to be at school for internet access. A business that has to reside in town may not be able to work remote or from home. You may not want to work from home, but you know this is how it\u2019s done today. FYI, farmers work from home.<\/p>\n

Winners must deploy service to locations in the CBG \u2013 40% of the number of locations by year 3 \u2013 Additional 20% in each subsequent year \u2013 100% of locations by year 6 \u2013 Measured at the state level<\/p>\n

Data on locations served filed with USAC \u2022 Rates must be reasonably comparable to rates for similar services in urban areas.\"official<\/a><\/p>\n

So, now let\u2019s look over the winners of the auction, not the companies, but the technologies that are going to be used. If you want a list of companies, the links are below. I think we need to figure out how the technologies are going to be used and I may mention the companies will use them.<\/p>\n

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