Top ten ways the NTIA/RUS NOFA fails America

It's kind of surreal to know that today NTIA and RUS began accepting applications for broadband stimulus grants and loans. After months of waiting for signs of progress all of a sudden we're entering the next stage of the process started when the ARRA passed in February.

And yet I, like many others, can't help but be disappointed by the many ways in which this effort has already been letting us down, frustrated by the lack of vision to set America back on course to be the Internet's global leader and worried that despite the good intentions expressed in speeches and interviews that the Obama Administration's first opportunity to push forward their broadband agenda is fast becoming a boondoggle...