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Last night CNN aired a story during the Situation Room highlighting two participants in the first round of the broadband stimulus. The first was Hiawatha Broadband, a terrific rural broadband deployer in southeastern Minnesota. They interviewed a host of people...
For anyone who's observed or experienced firsthand the first round of the broadband stimulus, the issues with how NTIA and RUS have handled things are rampant. Here are just a few of the questions that I and many others have...
Something dawned on me over the weekend about the broadband stimulus: public last mile projects had zero chance of receiving funding in Round I. But how could this be? Wasn't the stimulus supposed to prioritize public projects? Wasn't the stimulus...
Recently an analogy has sprung to mind describing how the broadband stimulus has run to date that I can't get out of my head. It's that of broadband stimulus applicants as Charlie Browns repeatedly trying to kick the football only...
One year ago today, Congress passed the ARRA, appropriating $7.2 billion to NTIA and RUS to stimulate broadband deployment across America. So how have they done so far? What have they gotten done in a year's time? Let's pull out...
With the second NOFA out, now is the time everyone must decide whether it's worth applying for stimulus dollars. While at first blush the answer may seem obvious as how can anyone turn down the opportunity at free money, when...
Last week I wrote about how NTIA and RUS were failing stimulus applicants by not communicating with them. While there has been some good news since then, namely that at least NTIA will be sending out rejection letters, I think...
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