Broadband Technology Opportunities Program

BTOP or Broadband Technology Opportunities Program grants are made possible by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (aka Stimulus) and are administered by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) under the Department of Commerce.

BTOP Grant Application Support Package

This 300+ page reference package provides cut-and-paste content that will save the applicant hundreds of man-hours in researching and writing a grant application to support a WiMAX-based project.

The BTOP Grant Application Support Package enables service providers, municipalities and other grant applicants to quickly and accurately write a technology-detailed, application-specific grant application to fund a WiMAX network in their unserved or underserved market.

At the core of the BTOP Grant Application Support Package is the Template for BTOP Grant Application Business Plan, which is an 85 page template for a business plan to support a Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) grant application.

The Template address various focus areas and critcial issues such as:

• Eligibility for a grant (ARRA 2009 6001)
• Public Benefits: Access, applications, and affordability for unserved or underserved markets
• Core WiMAX Applications: Support for education, healthcare, EBS spectrum, public safety, video surveillance, security, quality of service, job creation, low-income households, flu pandemic, etc.
• Leading Edge Applications: "smart grid" applications, utilities, school districts, 1:1 computin, VoIP backhaul, etc.
• Financial and Strategy : Cost estimates, financials, expected outcomes, deployment strategy, budgeting, auditing and oversight of the project
• Miscellaneous: Public-private partnerships, market specifics, "greening" the application, why the project could not be done in the time frame of the grant period without federal grant funding, VoIP, backhaul, meeting the build out requirements
  

• WiMAX RFP (15 pages PDF)
• Softswitch RFP (26 pages PDF)
• WiMAX Business Planning Tool
• WiMAX in Support of Education
• WiMAX in Support of Healthcare
• WiMAX in Support of Public Safety
• WiMAX in Support of Job Creation and Economic Development
• Wireless Backhaul as Middle Mile Infrastructure Support for WiMAX Networks