Overview

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 Broadband 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 computing, 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
  

In addition to the 85 page BTOP Grant Template, the BTOP Grant Application Support Package includes the following:

• WiMAX RFP (15 pages PDF)
• Softswitch RFP (26 pages PDF)
• WiMAX Business Planning Tool (Excel spreadsheet)
• WiMAX in Support of Education (84 pages PDF)
• WiMAX in Support of Healthcare (51 pages PDF)
• WiMAX in Support of Public Safety (24 pages PDF)
• WiMAX in Support of Job Creation and Economic Development (78 pages PDF)
• Wireless Backhaul as Middle Mile Infrastructure for WiMAX Networks (35 pages PDF)

Additonal items are valued at over a $4,000 USD themselves !!!!

• Anyone seeking a grant for BTOP needing expertise and significant time savings
• Anyone developing a WiMAX business plan and/or to plan for WiMAX deployment
• The following groups: Public entities (municipalities, school districts, states, counties, etc), non-profits, and private entities (telecommunications service providers, ISPs, WISPs, tower companies, etc)

Frank Ohrtman has almost 20 years experience in VoIP and wireless applications. He is the president of WMX Systems, LLC, a Denver, Colorado-based consulting and systems integration firm. Mr. Ohrtman learned to perform in-depth research and write succinct analyses during his years as a Navy Intelligence Officer (1981-1991) during which he specialized in electronic intelligence and electronic warfare. He is a veteran of U.S. Navy actions in Lebanon (awarded Navy Expeditionary Medal), Grenada, Libya (awarded Joint Service Commendation Medal), and the Gulf War (awarded National Defense Service Medal).

His telecommunications career began with selling VoIP gateway switches for Netrix Corporation to long distance bypass carriers. He went on to promote softswitch solutions for Lucent Technologies (Qwest Account Manager) and Vsys (Western Region Sales Manager). His consulting clients include national governments and tier one telephone companies.

Mr. Ohrtman is a Gerson Lehrman Group Scholar (http://www.glgcouncils.com) and serves as Dean of WiMAX for Applied Learning Solutions (http://www.e-als.com). He is a regular blogger and contributor to WiMAX.com (http://www.wimax.com) and annual presenter at WiMAX World (http://www.wimaxworld.com) as well as local Cisco Users Groups. Mr. Ohrtman serves as an advisor to Bush Telecommunications Pty Ltd and the Rural Broadband Consortium of Australia.

Mr. Ohrtman holds a Master of Science degree in Telecommunications from Colorado University College of Engineering (master's thesis: "Softswitch As Class 4 Replacement-A Disruptive Technology"), a Master of Arts degree in International Relations from Boston University and a Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, from University of Iowa

Frank may be reached at Frank@MindCommerce.com