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Legislative Efforts
In 2009, the federal government indicated that there would be ARRA funding available to increase broadband availability, and broadband adoption in the United States. Seeing the synergy between the high level goals of the federal funding and Wireless Oakland, the County provided written testimony and a response to a Request for Information to attempt to influence the development of the rules so that all Oakland County residents could benefit from the funding.
In the end, the rules were written in such a way that only those residents in the rural areas of the County could benefit from the funding designated for expanding broadband service, and there would be limited funding to for programs designed to increase adoption in urban and suburban areas.
Working within the constraints set by the federal government, County staff still pursued partnerships to attempt to ensure the interests of all County residents were represented in efforts to obtain federal funding.
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