Las Vegas Companies LV.Net and ANTC Join Forces on Massive Broadband Internet Expansion Project

Oct. 27, 2009 - PRLog -- LV.Net and Arizona-Nevada Tower Corporation have submitted a joint-venture proposal to the National Telecommunications Information Administration for a massive project that will use broadband stimulus funding to bring a large amount of affordable broadband Internet access to both un-served and underserved households, businesses and community organizations in rural Nevada.

The main benefits of LV.Net and ANTC’s collaborative effort will be a widened network of Internet access, faster speeds and increased bandwidth at a far cheaper rate due to increased levels of market competition.  These effects will show themselves almost immediately upon completion of the project.

The project will provide much needed technology and services to the many smaller communities situated across much of Nevada. With a significant portion of the State’s population situated in two metropolitan centers, the remaining citizenry are scattered in small rural communities throughout the 110,000 square miles of the state and are often quite far removed from modern services. These communities are typically underserved in areas of education, medical care, information access, and emergency services. These communities also lack access to convenient shopping and modern telecommunications. Further, business and employment opportunities are hampered by the limitations to Internet access via dial up telephone services, and by the exorbitant rates charged by satellite providers.

Arizona-Nevada Tower Corporation and LV.Net aim to rectify these iniquities with help from the Rural Utilities Services’ Broadband Initiatives Program, which will make loans and grants for broadband infrastructure projects in rural areas, as well as the National Telecommunications Information Administration’s Broadband Technology Opportunities Program in the form of grants to fund broadband infrastructure, public computer centers and sustainable and affordable broadband adoption projects.

The rapid pace of innovation on the Internet has produced enormous benefits in information exchanges, entertainment, communications, political action, and life-quality services. Development of affordable broadband Internet access in un-served and underserved Nevada communities will be an important factor in enhancing education opportunities, and creating further economic development for the community. School children will be able to access countless reference materials for research projects, enhancing their educational opportunities. All will have the opportunity to search for medical information that can be potentially life-saving. The education benefits for both young and old will enhance communities throughout Nevada.

The proposal from LV.Net and Arizona-Nevada Tower Corporation, both local Nevada companies, was selected as the number one infrastructure project by the Nevada State Broadband Task Force (http://www.nv.gov/Recovery/BroadbandTF/2009-10_NBBTF_to_N...) and will create 30 immediate jobs and result in long term job creation in the future.  The proposal will also benefit broadband Internet users by providing a competitive source for alternative access, effectively lowering costs. Expanded Internet access facilitated by LV.Net will provide a massive boost, both economic and cultural in nature, to the recipient communities and will serve to increase jobs, spur investments in technology and infrastructure, and provide long-term economic benefits to the regions of the country that need it most.

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LV.Net is a subsidiary of LasVegas.Net, a Nevada-based company that specializes in web design, publishing and wireless Internet service.