FTTH and Broadband Stimulus

The FTTH Council was a leading voice in calling on Congress and the Obama administration to include expanded broadband deployment in the economic stimulus package, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). And during the process of receiving applications and allocating funds, the Council worked to promote the "futureproof" aspects of FTTH technologies as federal agencies decided on how to shape those programs and distribute the monies. In its reports and filings related to stimulus, the FTTH Council has provided federal agencies with evidence of how funding FTTH deployment projects is among the best ways to realize the legislation’s goals of providing jobs in the near term and a technological infrastructure that will serve the nation for many decades into the future.