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The Puerto Rico Bridge Initiative plans to provide fast, affordable broadband connectivity for broadband service providers and to underserved areas of Puerto Rico, including the islands of Culebra and Vieques, by establishing a broadband bridge to the United States mainland and deploying a high-speed network on the islands. The project plans to purchase a 10 Gigabit per second undersea fiber-optic cable directly connecting Puerto Rico to Miami, as well as deploy an over 180 mile terrestrial high-speed microwave network using 11 towers. The network will offer speeds from 100 Megabits per second to 1 Gigabit per second to anchor institutions and broadband service providers. More than 1,700 community anchor institutions are expected to be directly connected, including more than 1,500 K-12 schools. The Puerto Rico Bridge Initiative also proposes to: (a) Offer a 25 percent broadband discount to K-12 schools to improve education and distance learning; (b) Reduce the cost of transporting Internet traffic to the mainland United States and spur more affordable broadband Internet service for as many as 1.2 million households, 47,000 businesses, and nearly 2,200 anchor institutions on the islands; (c) Support job creation and job opportunities, and enhance government services, by delivering high-speed broadband capabilities to anchor institutions; and (d) Establish a local peering point to keep Puerto Rico-bound Internet traffic on the islands, thus reducing associated transit costs and lowering broadband costs generally.

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