Read the Fine Print -- Broadband Stimulus Funds NOT Delayed
05/22/2009 13:26
Thank goodness for a long weekend. Tara Seals and I have spent the past – what, two weeks? – writing about different aspects of the broadband stimulus. I’m at the “just distribute the darn money!” point. Well, and there’s the apparent rub. I got an e-mail yesterday stating broadband stimulus money won’t start flowing until December, when, the e-mail said, officials promised the first distribution round this summer.
There also are various blogs this week stating the broadband grants have been “quietly delayed” because the Commerce Department, which will distribute broadband stimulus funds through the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), plans to award a contract for “grants program support” by June 30.
People, read the fine print. A contract for “grants program support” is not a round of funding for broadband buildouts. It’s a contract for outsourcing, for getting bodies to help determine which of the thousands of grants applications should receive broadband stimulus dollars...
Thank goodness for a long weekend. Tara Seals and I have spent the past – what, two weeks? – writing about different aspects of the broadband stimulus. I’m at the “just distribute the darn money!” point. Well, and there’s the apparent rub. I got an e-mail yesterday stating broadband stimulus money won’t start flowing until December, when, the e-mail said, officials promised the first distribution round this summer.
There also are various blogs this week stating the broadband grants have been “quietly delayed” because the Commerce Department, which will distribute broadband stimulus funds through the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), plans to award a contract for “grants program support” by June 30.
People, read the fine print. A contract for “grants program support” is not a round of funding for broadband buildouts. It’s a contract for outsourcing, for getting bodies to help determine which of the thousands of grants applications should receive broadband stimulus dollars...
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