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160,000 businesses 1,718 K-12 schools 61 community college main and satellite campuses 254 public libraries 1,887 public safety facilities In a recent visit to North Carolina, U.S. President Barack Obama touted the need to give every child the tools for success in the 21st century, including access to high-speed broadband. He said, “We

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I wish President Obama would have given his speech on August 12. That’s when MCNC will announce the completion of this project during a statewide ceremony from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. EDT. This event will leverage the NCREN and highlight the immense reach of the GLRBI by staging connected events in

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Fayetteville (NC) Observer-Times 08/12/2013 "MCNC finishes $144 million Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative" Audience: 108,172 Source Website: www.fayobserver.com August 12, 2013 at 11:00 AM EDT RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Aug. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- ?MCNC, the non-profit operator of the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN), today announced the completion of the second and final phase of the $144 million Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative (GLRBI).

The GLRBI is funded through grants from the?U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration' s (NTIA) Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) and significant matching funds from private donations and investments including a $24 million investment from the Golden LEAF Foundation and $10 million from the MCNC Endowment. No state funds were utilized as matching funds for the MCNC awards. Due to added investments from MCNC, more than 100 percent of the project grant value was expended with private-sector companies doing engineering, outside plant equipment, optical gear, and construction, all of which are based in North Carolina or have a significant presence in the state.

Today's celebration event was held simultaneously from four locations in North Carolina (the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, UNC Charlotte, Elizabeth City State University, and the MCNC campus in Research Triangle Park), showcasing the expanded capabilities NCREN. This historic project is having a positive impact on student learning, patient outcomes in health care, and is accelerating innovation and research all across the state.

Community institutions now being served in the state include K-12 schools, universities, community colleges, health care facilities, public health facilities, libraries, research institutions, and other sectors. MCNC's role in the GLRBI also involves leading discussions with economic developers and private-sector broadband service providers to use the GLRBI fiber to improve broadband access and grow jobs in North Carolina. MCNC has actively engaged more than a dozen entities in these discussions.

NCREN is now a fiber-based network that is more than 2,600 miles spanning the entire state. The first phase of the project was completed in April 2012 with 957 total operated miles (442 of which were new construction). The second phase completed today was much larger with total operated miles at 1,696 (1,300 of being new).

Vendors and contractors for Round 1 included: Fiber Technologies, Globe Communications, Comtech, Cisco Systems, CommScope, and ONUG Communications. Participating vendors and contractors for Round 2 included: BroadPlex, Cisco Systems, CommScope, Comtech, ECC Technologies, Edwards Telecommunications, Fiber Technologies, Globe Communications, Kimley-Horn & Associates, and World Fiber Technologies.

Due to the GLRBI, North Carolina is one of just a handful of states with an open access, middle-mile fiber network available to economic developers, businesses and broadband service providers. Several entities already are accessing GLRBI fiber to enhance broadband availability as an asset to attract job growth in their regions.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 appropriated $7.2 billion to 1

broadband investments. The ARRA directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and the U.S. Department of Commerce's NTIA to expand broadband access to unserved and underserved communities, increase jobs, spur investments in technology and infrastructure, and provide long-term economic benefits. The RUS was able to further fund the Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP) while the NTIA created the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP).

Supporting Quotes I have long supported the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative and the work it does to support North Carolina's rural communities. Broadband access is crucial for economic development, access to education, quality health care for families in rural communities. Now that MCNC has completed construction of the GLRBI, I will continue to work with the organization to ensure that robust and future-proof broadband access is available to more and more citizens of North Carolina.

U.S. Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) The Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative is serving schools, community colleges and non-profit health care providers throughout the region. In my role as a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Communications and Technology Subcommittee, I learned about the progress of this effort through testimony presented by Joe Freddoso at the hearing outlining his work in North Carolina. I was especially pleased to learn that the project owes its success to collaborations between government, private sector and incumbent stakeholders who might have viewed the project as competition rather than the joint effort it has become. I was also pleased to learn that the project now embraces a self-sustaining business plan. This is a success story, and I am pleased to be here today to see and learn more about its progress.

U.S. Representative Renee Ellmers (R-NC) I am proud to have supported the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative from the beginning.

This project included a massive upgrade to the North Carolina Research and Education Network, which researchers have used to create new cures for diseases, improve weather prediction, develop new applications for data analytics, and many other innovations across many fields. This is another example of how strong public-private partnerships, in this case federal investment, coupled with private and foundation funds and the leadership of MCNC, is one of the things that gives North Carolina an advantage over our competitors.

U.S. Representative David Price (D-NC) The Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative is an historic investment that will bring much needed, affordable broadband access to the residents of rural and traditionally underserved areas in eastern North Carolina. Without high-speed Internet, many citizens and businesses in this region will not be able to take advantage of innovative technological advances or effectively compete in the new global economy. I would like to congratulate MCNC on completing this project.

U.S. Representative G. K. Butterfield (D-NC) The Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative provides more proof that the investments made under NTIA's Broadband Technology Opportunities Program are bringing greatly needed broadband to community anchor institutions in North Carolina and across the country. MCNC has utilized nearly $104 million in broadband grants to provide every school in the state with an available broadband connection of at least 100 Mbps. MCNC has also procured Internet access for all North Carolina schools at a savings of 60 percent over retail rates. I congratulate MCNC and its partners 2

for providing a great demonstration of the benefits of broadband.

Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator Lawrence E. Strickling Since the late 1990s, it's been apparent that the availability of broadband infrastructure will be a key component of economic vitality, particularly in rural areas of North Carolina. The Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative provides a 'speed of light' path to the future for communities across North Carolina. The N.C. Department of Commerce is ready to work with public and private partners to help leverage this newly-completed asset.

N.C. Secretary of Commerce Sharon Decker In carrying out its three-part mission of teaching, research and outreach, the University of North Carolina is increasingly reliant on technology and broadband infrastructure. These critical upgrades and the expansion of the North Carolina Research and Education Network will help ensure that our UNC campuses have the digital infrastructure required to scale to our future needs. Every sector of education in the state will benefit from this important investment, and I would like to congratulate MCNC on completing the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative.

University of North Carolina President Tom Ross Congratulations to MCNC on completing the second and final phase of the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative. We are pleased that we have been able to collaborate with MCNC to introduce cutting-edge broadband services to North Carolina, enhancing the economic future of our state and its residents. From day one, our goal, much like MCNC's, has been to work with state and private organizations to level the playing field by bringing superior broadband technology to rural and underserved communities.

Dan Limerick (CEO of RST Fiber) CommScope has been involved with this project since the first shovel went into the ground in 2010.

We are excited about the successful completion of this important statewide project because it will provide tremendous, long-lasting benefits to our state's residents. CommScope is proud to be part of several broadband initiatives around the country, bringing high-speed networks to rural and underserved communities. MCNC and its efforts to expand the North Carolina Research and Education Network through the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative is just one great example.

Ric Johnsen (CommScope Senior Vice President of Broadband) Over the last five years, Mooresville Graded School District (MGSD) has transformed the teaching and learning experienced in its classrooms; establishing a culture where all children expect to learn and succeed has been the catalyst for this change. These expectations are facilitated via technology-enabled learning, which has played a significant role in MGSD's gains in achievement and graduation rate. The N.C. School Connectivity Initiative has provided a robust, scalable, and efficient path for MGSD's connection to NCREN. This high-speed access has removed any broadband infrastructure barriers and has been a tremendous asset to our students, teachers, and community. Through the collaborative efforts of MCNC and MGSD, the infrastructure has been upgraded three times in five years. From 100 Mbps to 200 Mbps to 500 Mbps, each upgrade has allowed the constantly increasing needs of student and teacher use in the classroom to be met. The completion of the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative and upgrades to NCREN will help 3

replicate and scale MGSD's model far into the future.

Mooresville Superintendent Dr. Marc Edwards (AASA 2013 Superintendent of the Year) Today's health care environment increasingly depends on electronic connections that assure that high-quality care is provided efficiently and effectively at acceptable cost. Accessing remote experts on a moment's notice, sharing information among a patient's physicians quickly and easily, keeping parents up to date on the details of their child's doctor visits, and providing continuing education to North Carolina's health care providers all depend more and more on highly-reliable and high-speed broadband connections provided at an acceptable cost. Meeting this challenge for N.C.'s public health agencies, hospitals, and other public and non-profit health care providers is the mission of the North Carolina TeleHealth Network (NCTN). The Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative provides the NCTN with the essential core resource needed to stitch these providers together into a state-wide broadband network to support the current and future digital medicine needs in North Carolina.

Dr. William F. Pilkington, CEO and Director of Public Health at Cabarrus Health Alliance MCNC is pleased to be drawing to a conclusion the construction phase of the project. Over the next several weeks we will continue to fully implement services to the new NCREN backbone serving education, health care and public safety throughout North Carolina. During the last three years, we have been fortunate to have great support from our vendor partners and a very talented internal staff to complete this project on time. In addition, the State of North Carolina and its agencies, particularly NCDOT and NCDENR as well as the North Carolina Congressional Delegation and General Assembly, have been great assets to help us complete this historic work.

Tommy Jacobson, MCNC Chief Operating Officer and NCREN Chief Architect About MCNC MCNC is a technology non-profit that builds, owns, and operates the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN). For more than a quarter century, a growing number of research, education, non- profit health care, and other community institutions have connected to NCREN to utilize this leading-edge broadband highway. Today, NCREN serves the broadband infrastructure needs of more than 450 of these institutions including all K-20 public education in North Carolina.? The recent expansion of NCREN and its capabilities allows us to customize network services and applications for each of these institutions more than ever before as we also look to further enable private-sector providers to bring cost-effective broadband infrastructure to rural and underserved areas of North Carolina. Our business and partnering strategy gives our state a real competitive advantage and is driving the new broadband economy in North Carolina.

Visit www.mcnc.org or follow @MCNC. Online ResourcesMCNC Website: www.mcnc.org MCNC Social:? (Twitter) @ MCNC or (Facebook) www.facebook.com/pages/MCNC/129483158385 GLRBI Social: (Twitter) @GLRBI or (Facebook) www.facebok.com/GLRBI Relevant Trending Hashtags: #NTIA #BTOP #GLRBI #ncpol #ARRA #NCREN #Broadband # stimulus MCNC Videos on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/ MCNCvideos?feature=mhee Interactive Progress Map: https://www.mcnc. org/btop/progress/map MCNC / GLRBI Central Webspace: https://www.mcnc. org/btop Online Round 1 Milestones: https://www.mcnc.org/btop/ multimedia/round-1/milestones Video (Round 1 Milestones): http:// archivedvideo.mcnc.org/BTOP%20Videos/BTOPR1_WRAP_UP_Timeline.mp4 Watch Video of Round 1: http://archivedvideo.mcnc.org/BTOP%20Videos/ BTOPR1_Wrap_Up1.mp4 New: NTIA BTOP Map: http://www2.ntia.doc.gov/ BTOPmap/

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Rock Hill (SC) Herald 08/12/2013 "Tech company finishes rural broadband project" Audience: 190,396 Source Website: www.heraldonline.com Tech company finishes rural broadband project Published: August 12, 2013 Updated 3 hours ago 2013-08-12T20:09:27Z The_Associated_Press The Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. " A North Carolina technology company says it has completed a $144 million project expanding broadband service to rural parts of the state.

The nonprofit MCNC builds, owns and operates the North Carolina Research and Education Network.

For more than 25 years, a growing number of research, education, health care and community institutions have connected to the network.

MCNA president Joe Freddosa said Monday that the completion of the last phase will open up more available broadband service in rural North Carolina.

The fiber-based network now spans 2,600 miles What we've basically done in North Carolina is built the interstate highway system for broadband throughout the state, Freddosa said.

The project received money from a variety of agencies, including the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Golden LEAF Foundation. It was necessary because institutions on the network have been using more and more bandwidth.

The institutions were collectively doubling their demand for bandwidth the last few years - and we simply didn't have the infrastructure in rural North Carolina to keep up with that demand, Freddosa said.

He said the initiative should open up more high-speed service in rural North Carolina.

This broadband infrastructure has been a key in economic development and attracting companies.

So hopefully the fact that we have a lot of infrastructure available in rural North Carolina will be a great economic development tool for the state, he said.

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MCNC president Joe Freddoso said Monday that the completion of the last phase will open up more available broadband service in rural North Carolina.

The fiber-based network now spans 2,600 miles "What we've basically done in North Carolina is built the interstate highway system for broadband throughout the state," Freddosa said.

The project received money from a variety of agencies, including the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Golden LEAF Foundation. It was necessary because institutions on the network have been using more and more bandwidth.

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Daily Courier (The) (Forest City, NC) 08/12/2013 "Tech company finishes rural broadband project" Audience: 6,057 Source Website: www.thedigitalcourier.com Aug. 12, 2013 @ 05:40 PM Login Register RALEIGH " A North Carolina technology company says it has completed a $144 million project expanding broadband service to rural parts of the state.

The nonprofit MCNC builds, owns and operates the North Carolina Research and Education Network.

For more than 25 years, a growing number of research, education, health care and community institutions have connected to the network.

MCNA president Joe Freddosa said Monday that the completion of the last phase will open up more available broadband service in rural North Carolina.

The fiber-based network now spans 2,600 miles What we've basically done in North Carolina is built the interstate highway system for broadband throughout the state, Freddosa said.

The project received money from a variety of agencies, including the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Golden LEAF Foundation. It was necessary because institutions on the network have been using more and more bandwidth.

The institutions were collectively doubling their demand for bandwidth the last few years - and we simply didn't have the infrastructure in rural North Carolina to keep up with that demand, Freddosa said.

He said the initiative should open up more high-speed service in rural North Carolina.

This broadband infrastructure has been a key in economic development and attracting companies.

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The nonprofit MCNC builds, owns and operates the North Carolina Research and Education Network.

For more than 25 years, a growing number of research, education, health care and community institutions have connected to the network.

MCNC president Joe Freddoso said Monday that the completion of the last phase will open up more available broadband service in rural North Carolina.

The fiber-based network now spans 2,600 miles "What we've basically done in North Carolina is built the interstate highway system for broadband throughout the state," Freddosa said.

The project received money from a variety of agencies, including the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Golden LEAF Foundation. It was necessary because institutions on the network have been using more and more bandwidth.

"The institutions were collectively doubling their demand for bandwidth the last few years - and we simply didn't have the infrastructure in rural North Carolina to keep up with that demand," Freddosa said.

He said the initiative should open up more high-speed service in rural North Carolina.

"This broadband infrastructure has been a key in economic development and attracting companies. So hopefully the fact that we have a lot of infrastructure available in rural North Carolina will be a great economic development tool for the state," he said.

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WBTV-TV Channel 3 (Charlotte, NC) 08/15/2013 "Tech company finishes rural broadband project" Audience: 334,196 Source Website: www.wbtv.com Tech company finishes rural broadband project CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina technology company is completing a $144 million project that's expanding broadband service to rural parts of the state.

The nonprofit MCNC builds, owns and operates the North Carolina Research and Education Network.

For more than 25 years, a growing number of research, education, health care and community institutions have connected to the network.

MCNA president Joe Freddosa says the completion of the last phase of the rural broadband initiative will open up more available broadband service in rural North Carolina.

The fiber-based network now spans 2,600 miles Freddosa says the initiative should be a great economic development tool for the state.

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Daily Courier (The) (Forest City, NC) 08/18/2013 "Broadband company expanding into county" Audience: 6,057 Source Website: www.thedigitalcourier.com Aug. 18, 2013 @ 06:05 AM MATTHEW CLARK FOREST CITY " A Shelby-based company is in the process of expanding its fiber optic lines through Rutherford County.

RST Global Communication LLC said it was running fiber optic line to provide additional broadband Internet service through the county on its way to the mountains.

Dan Limerick, co-founder of RST, said the line is being run down U.S. 74 across Rutherford County continuing into Henderson County to hook up the western part of the state.

We are looking at Asheville and Inca as possible hook-up points, Limerick said.

The line being laid is expected to run 25 miles across the county. Limerick said RST plans to run additional fiber optic lines in the county.

We have it on the drawing board to run more middle miles, Limerick said. Every fiber network is comprised of three different networks.

The first network is the backbone. That is what is being run from west to east in the county. The second network is what Limerick called the middle miles, or lines running secondary to the backbone. Those lines traditionally run along state highways.

The third component network is called last miles, or connectors between middle miles and customers.

Limerick said the intent is to run the network across North Carolina. The project started in north Shelby and runs into the Kings Mountain Data Center Park and through Mecklenburg County along I-485.

He said there has been over 3,000 miles of fiber optic cable laid as part of the project thus far.

We are trying to help those people in the less densely populated area get Internet access, Limerick said. We are trying to make it cost-effective for everyone.

He said he did not have an exact project cost estimate.

The problem with doing that is there are so many variables, Limerick said. There is plowing and directional boring and the cost varies greatly. The terrain is also a factor.

It's an expensive process no matter how you go.

The main goal is to expand connectivity of broadband Internet to rural areas of North Carolina currently underserved. A recent study by the Federal Communications Commission revealed that 1

Internet connectivity in western North Carolina was only around 30 percent.

Broadband is not a luxury anymore, it is an essential for infrastructure and to move forward in this economy, Limerick said.

The project was assisted by an investment in fiber by MCNC " a technology non-profit based at the Research Triangle " through the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative.

In the next few years, they will single-handedly help close the broadband gap for many of North Carolina's rural areas, said Joe Freddoso, president and CEO of MCNC, in a statement.

Limerick said the network will work at speeds of nearly 10 gigabits per second.

The intent is for RST to work with broadband wholesalers such as cable companies to sell the connectivity to customers.

I'm not going to tell you that RST is the solution but we are going to be a competitor, Limerick said.

The ultimate winner is going to be the consumer and that is our goal.

The fiber optic cable being laid by RST is underground which Limerick said is important to keep maintenance costs low thus costs to consumers low.

Most government authorities recognize that underground utilities is the way to go, Limerick said.

That is the way most municipalities are going as long as we leave the ground better than when we found it. (c) 2013 The Daily Courier Audience provided by Nielsen/NetRatings Highlights: NC, NORTH CAROLINA, North Carolina, MCNC, Golden LEAF, Rural Broadband Initiative

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