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>> IT'S MY PLEASURE TO STAND
WITH TEAM MARYLAND BROADCASTING
FROM THE EMERGING TECH CENTER
RIGHT HERE IN BALTIMORE'S
DIGITAL HARBOR.
TODAY WE HAVE A GREAT
ANNOUNCEMENT WHERE MARYLAND HAS
WON A COMPETITIVE BROADBAND
GRANT OF $115 MILLION TO TAKE
BROADBAND BANDWIDTH TO EVERY
SINGLE COUNTY IN MARYLAND.
IT'S GONNA CONNECT 1,200 MODELS
OF SUPER HIGH SPEED INTERNET
NETWORK.
IT'S GOING TO LEAD NEW FIBER TO
OVER 2,400 MILES OF EXISTING
HIGH SPEED CABLE.
IT'S GONNA GO TO OVER TWO
MILLION HOMES, OVER CLOSE TO
500,000 BUSINESSES.
WHETHER IT IS IN THE ROBUST
BALTIMORE-WASHINGTON CORRIDOR,
THE MOUNTAIN COUNTIES OF
WESTON--OF--OF WESTERN
MARYLAND, OR WHETHER IT'S GOING
DOWN THE EASTERN SHORE, GOING
OVER THAT BAY BRIDGE WITH NO
SUPER INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY
TRAFFIC JAM AND ALL THE WAY TO
POCOMOKE AND TO CRISFIELD.
>> AS WE COME OUT OF THIS
RECESSION AND MOVE INTO
RECOVERY, WE MUST TRANSFORM OUR
ECONOMY AND A BIG, BIG PART OF
THAT IS THAT INFORMATION
SUPERHIGHWAY THAT SENATOR
MIKULSKI JUST DESCRIBED SO VERY
WELL.
WE MUST BE CONNECTED TO ONE
ANOTHER, WE MUST BE BETTER
CONNECTED TO OUR--TO OUR
CUSTOMERS, WE MUST BE BETTER
CONNECTED TO OUR INSTITUTIONS,
OUR BUSINESSES, OUR COMMUNITY
COLLEGES BECAUSE IT IS THROUGH
THOSE CONNECTIONS THAT WE FUEL
THIS INNOVATIVE ECONOMY THAT IS
MARYLAND.
OUR STATE HAS CREATED 40,000 NEW
JOBS FROM JANUARY THROUGH JULY.
THAT WAS THE BEST JOB CREATION
THAT WE HAD SEEN IN THAT SAME
PERIOD OF TIME, BETTER THAN
WE'VE SEEN SINCE 1999.
WE STILL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO,
BUT WE--ONE OF THE THINGS THAT
ALLOWS US TO DO IT IS THE
STRENGTHENING OF THE CONNECTIONS
FROM THIS BROADBAND ACCESS.
JUST THE CONSTRUCTION OF THIS
NETWORK IS GOING TO CREATE 2,000
JOBS OVER THE NEXT THREE YEARS.
THIS NEW NETWORK WILL BETTER
CONNECT US TO OUR CUSTOMERS
AND--AND BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS
CONNECTIONS, VENDORS.
IT WILL HELP OUR BUSINESSES RUN
FASTER AND MORE SEAMLESSLY.
IT MEANS A STRONGER AND MORE
INNOVATIVE BUSINESS COMMUNITY IN
MARYLAND.
>> THIS IS, TO MY KNOWLEDGE THE
SECOND LARGEST GRANT THE NCIA
HAS ISSUED TODAY.
IT'S $115 MILLION, AND I THINK
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DID
DIFFERENTLY HERE IS THAT WE CAME
TOGETHER AS A TEAM, OBVIOUSLY IN
PARTNERSHIP WITH THE
CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION.
ALL THE APPLICANTS PULLED
TOGETHER.
WE DID IT UNDER ONE STATE
APPLICATION.
I THINK THAT'S REALLY WORKED TO
OUR FAVOR.