MMTC issues list of minority contractors for broadband stimulus applicants - 2009-08-04 12:00:31 EDT | Broadcasting & Cable

The Minority Media & Telecommunications Council has issued its initial list of minority broadband contractors it wants broadband stimulus money applicants to consider using.

The Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service has a built-in preference for small disadvantaged businesses (SDBs), though it is only one point out of a hundred, while the NTIA has a less defined preference, saying it will give "substantial consideration" to SDB's, according to David Honig, executive director of MMTC...