Broadband stimulus may disappoint thousands - Digital Life Blog - InformationWeek

The ball might finally get rolling tomorrow for the $7.2 billion in broadband stimulus funds, not a moment too soon where operators and Internet-starved rural communities are concerned.

Worse, though, than the fact that many projects won't actually get started until the spring of 2010, is the number of groups and communities that are going to come away from the process empty handed and potentially discouraged. "There's going to be some folks spurned at the wireless stimulus altar," broadband business strategist Craig Settles told me...