Kokua i ke Kakauolelo no ka Hooulu Rural Anne Hazlett i olelo aku i ka la 6 o Nov USDA ke hoʻopukapuka nei ʻoi aku ma mua o $200 miliona i ka ʻoihana nā papahana e lawe mai i ka broadband i nā haneli o nā kaiāulu kuaʻāina i mālama ʻole ʻia.
"He mea koʻikoʻi ka ʻōnaehana broadband i kā mākou hoʻokele waiwai a me ka maikaʻi o ke ola ma ke kua'āina ʻo ʻAmelika. Eia nō naʻe, i kēia lā kokoke i ka 40 pakeneka o nā kamaʻāina a me nā ʻoihana ʻaʻole i komo i ka lawelawe like ʻole i loaʻa i nā kikowaena kūlanakauhale, "wahi a Hazlett. “Ma lalo o ke alakaʻi ʻana a ke Kakauolelo Perdue, ke hana ikaika nei ʻo USDA e hoʻopaʻa i kēia āpau. Mai ke komo ʻana i ka mālama olakino a hiki i ka hoʻomaʻamaʻa ʻana i nā limahana a me ka pili ʻana i nā mākeke honua, ʻo ka broadband he ala ola maoli i ka pōmaikaʻi i nā kaiāulu kūloko.
Ua kūkākūkā ʻo Hazlett i ka hana a USDA no ka hoʻonui ʻana i ke ala ākea ma nā kuaʻāina i ka wā o ka kipa ʻana i Upshur County, W.Va. Ua hoʻolaha ʻo ia e hāʻawi ana ʻo USDA i kahi haʻawina i ka Central West Virginia Development Association e hāʻawi i ka broadband i ʻoi aku ma mua o 3,600 mau hale, ʻoihana a me nā hale kaiāulu. ma Barbour, Randolph a me Upshur kalana.
Ua hui ʻo Hazlett lāua ʻo Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.) me nā luna kūloko ma ke kula kiʻekiʻe ʻo Buckhannon-Upshur a kūkākūkā pehea e kōkua ai ka haʻawina i nā haumāna me nā manawa hoʻonaʻauao a ʻoihana. Ua hui pū lākou me nā luna ʻoihana i hoʻokipa i ke kōkua ʻana o USDA ma ke ʻano he hui nui e hoʻonui i nā ʻōnaehana broadband i nā wahi i mālama ʻole ʻia.
"ʻO ka loaʻa ʻana o ka pūnaewele kiʻekiʻe he mea pono loa ia no nā haumāna a me nā ʻoihana o West Virginia e hiki ke hoʻokūkū i ka ʻoihana kikohoʻe honua," wahi a Sen. Capito i ka hanana o ka Pōʻakahi. "He hana koʻikoʻi kēia hoʻopukapuka kālā a USDA i ka hoʻopili ʻana iā West Virginia, a ʻaʻole hiki iaʻu ke kali e ʻike i nā manawa e hiki mai ana mai kēia papahana. E hoʻomau wau i ka hana e hāʻawi i nā manawa like ma ka mokuʻāina, no ka mea inā hāʻawi ʻia nā mea hana, hiki i nā West Virginia ke hoʻokūkū me kekahi.
Manaʻo ʻia ka papahana Buckhannon e hoʻonui i nā manawa hoʻokele waiwai no nā kuaʻāina o West Virginians. Wahi a nā luna o ka ʻāina, e kūkulu ʻia ka hāʻawi kālā USDA ma luna o ka hoʻomaikaʻi ʻana i ka ʻoihana kaʻa hou e hāʻawi ana i nā manawa ulu i nā ʻoihana kūloko a me nā ʻāpana. Eia kekahi, hiki i nā koleke ʻekolu ke hāʻawi i nā manawa hoʻonaʻauao hoʻonui i kā lākou mau haumāna.
ʻOiai ma West Virginia, ua hoʻolaha ʻo Hazlett e hāʻawi ana ʻo USDA i ʻewalu mau haʻawina hou ma Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia a me Wakinekona, a me 10 mau hōʻaiʻē e hoʻonui i ka broadband ma nā kuaʻāina. E hāʻawi nā hōʻaiʻē i kahi ala ākea hou a i hoʻomaikaʻi ʻia paha ma mua o 71,000 mau kamaʻāina a me nā ʻoihana ma 74 mau kalana ma nā wahi kuaʻāina o Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia a me Wisconsin.
Ke kālā ʻia nei kēia mau makana ma o ka USDA Polokalamu Telecommunications, nāna i hāʻawi i ke kōkua kālā i ʻoi aku ma mua o 500 mau mea lawelawe kelepona a puni ka ʻāina. Ke hoʻolaha nei ʻo USDA i $207 miliona i nā hōʻaiʻē a me nā haʻawina i kēia lā.
Ua hoʻohana ka poʻe i loaʻa mua, e like me ka Moultrie Independent Telephone Co. ma Illinois, i ke kālā USDA no ka hoʻonui ʻana i ka loaʻa ʻana o ka broadband a hana i nā hoʻomaikaʻi nui o ka lawelawe. Ke hoʻohana nei ʻo Moultrie i kahi hōʻaiʻē USDA no ka hoʻonui ʻana i ka wikiwiki o ka pūnaewele ma kahi kokoke i ʻumi manawa ma Lovington, Ill. ʻO ka wikiwiki wikiwiki e hiki ke manaʻo i ka piʻi nui ʻana o ka loaʻa kālā no nā ʻoihana wahi e pono ai ke komo maoli i nā wā e hiki mai ana a me nā hoʻololi koho e like me ka Chicago Board of Trade.
Hāʻawi ʻo USDA Rural Development i nā hōʻaiʻē a me nā haʻawina e kōkua i ka hoʻonui ʻana i nā manawa waiwai a hana i nā hana ma nā kuaʻāina. Kākoʻo kēia kōkua i ka hoʻomaikaʻi ʻana i nā ʻoihana; hoʻomohala ʻoihana; kuleana home; nā lawelawe kaiāulu e like me nā kula, ka palekana lehulehu a me ka mālama ola kino; a me ka wikiwiki o ka punaewele ma nā kua'āina. No ka 'ike hou aku, e kipa www.rd.usda.gov.