Broadband stimulus: "Too much" focus on "un-served and underserved"?

The first round of applications for over $7 billion in broadband stimulus funding is due Aug. 14, 2009, and the initiative already is starting to "feel" like the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and VoIP.

A burst of initial wild optimism on the part of "small guys" that they could become "big guys" is followed by dashing of those hopes by the realities of a scale-based business that doesn't favor too many "big guys..."