Small ops apply for $1.3B of broadband stimulus

The American Cable Association tallied the total value of the grants that 83 of its members have applied for under the national Broadband Stimulus Program: more than $1.3 billion. It might have been more, the ACA said, but its smallest members were frozen out of the process.

Congress allocated $7.2 billion to the program, which is being managed by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Rural Utilities Service (RUS)...