Broadband stimulus: $28 billion dollars in applications chasing $7.2 billion dollars in funding – including Alaska’s new and improved, underwater bridge to nowhere! « Endeavour

$28 billion in applications were received in the first round of an ostensibly three round process to award $7.2 billion in broadband stimulus allocated in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). Recently, the National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA) and the Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utility Service (RUS) have released summary data on each of these applications at their Broadband USA site...