{"id":246437,"date":"2010-01-29T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=95437"},"modified":"2010-01-29T12:00:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T17:00:10","slug":"zte-looks-to-stimulus-funds-for-lte-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/246437","title":{"rendered":"ZTE Looks to Stimulus Funds for LTE Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-95457\" href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/01\/29\/zte-looks-to-stimulus-funds-for-lte-network\/cell-tower\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  title=\"cell tower\" src=\"http:\/\/gigaom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/cell-tower.jpg?w=300&#038;h=225\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-95457\" \/><\/a>Comnet Wireless has tapped ZTE to deploy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cellular-news.com\/story\/41701.php\">a test 4G Long Term Evolution network <\/a>for voice and data services in parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. And the Chinese telecom gear company is teaming with the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority to lobby for a piece of the government&#8217;s $7.2 billion broadband stimulus fund to help.<\/p>\n<p>Comnet, a regional operator owned by Atlantic Tele-Network, applied for a portion of the stimulus funds <a href=\"http:\/\/www.governor.state.nm.us\/press\/2009\/august\/082109_01.pdf\">last August<\/a> (PDF) but the project was not one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/vice-president-biden-kicks-72-billion-recovery-act-broadband-program\">first 18 initiatives<\/a> to be approved for funding last month. The operator is looking to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, which will hand out <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/01\/15\/found-missing-broadband-stimulus-funds\/\">$2.35 billion in funding<\/a> by the end of September 2010.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/radialmonster\/129065503\/\">Flickr user radialmonster<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/95437\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/95437\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/95437\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/95437\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/95437\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/95437\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/95437\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/95437\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/95437\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/95437\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=gigaom.com&#038;blog=1149864&#038;post=95437&#038;subd=gigaom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=WSchRM7thzA:kDrkG7ZdACw:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=WSchRM7thzA:kDrkG7ZdACw:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=WSchRM7thzA:kDrkG7ZdACw:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=WSchRM7thzA:kDrkG7ZdACw:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=WSchRM7thzA:kDrkG7ZdACw:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=WSchRM7thzA:kDrkG7ZdACw:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=WSchRM7thzA:kDrkG7ZdACw:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=WSchRM7thzA:kDrkG7ZdACw:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OmMalik\/~4\/WSchRM7thzA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comnet Wireless has tapped ZTE to deploy a test 4G Long Term Evolution network for voice and data services in parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. And the Chinese telecom gear company is teaming with the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority to lobby for a piece of the government&#8217;s $7.2 billion broadband stimulus fund to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6442,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6442"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}