Would Create 200,000 Additional Jobs Annually Through 2015

Cameron Communications Awarded Broadband Stimulus

Funds for Fiber to the Home Build-Out.

Sulphur, Louisiana - Cameron Communications (LBH, LLC), has been awarded American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Funds in the amount of $16.8M in grant money and $16.8M in loan money for construction of a state of the art fiber network capable of bringing advanced broadband services to the communities of Moss Bluff, Oakdale and Vinton, Louisiana.

WASHINGTON - The vast majority of the federal government's latest broadband stimulus grants are aimed at bringing direct fiber connections to rural communities, according to the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council, a non-profit group that promotes next-generation broadband.

JANUARY 25, 2010 -- Fiber-optic technology proved popular once again in the latest round of U.S. rural broadband stimulus funding. At least nine of the 14 projects announced today will use fiber for middle-mile or last-mile networks.  Read more....

FTTH Council expresses concern that the Senate may consider, as part of the FY 2010 supplemental
funding legislation (H.R. 4899), rescinding “unobligated balances” from the Department of
Agriculture’s “Distance Learning, Telemedicine and Broadband Program” and the
Department of Commerce’s “Broadband Technology Opportunities Program,” which were
appropriated as part of the from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
(“ARRA”).

FTTH Council expresses concern that that the House is considering, as part of the FY 2010
supplemental funding legislation (H.R. 4899), rescinding “unobligated balances” from
the Department of Agriculture’s “Distance Learning, Telemedicine and Broadband
Program” and the Department of Commerce’s “Broadband Technology Opportunities
Program,” which were appropriated as part of the from the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009 (“ARRA”).

This study, prepared for the FTTH Council by the international consulting firm Navigant Economics, calculated the capital investment required to expand current generation broadband to all U.S. homes, as well as to also extend competitive next-generation networks – those delivering connectivity of at least 50 megabits per second downstream and 20 mbps upstream – to 80 percent of the country by 2015.CSMG Study on FTTH Deployment Costs

A study from CSMG. a strategy consulting firm specialized in telecommunications and technology, that Corning and the FTTH Council presented to the Federal Communications Commisson on October 13, 2009 concerning the cost of deploying FTTH across the US.  Based on real experience in deploying FTTH networks, it shows that investment requirements for FTTH have decreased substantially over the past few years and vary considerably depending on the topography being served.