Broadband agencies receiving scrutiny over grant delay

After federal officials announced that the broadband stimulus grant awards are now pushed back until December, acts disappointment and criticism received about the additional delay shouldn’t come as a surprise.

With over 2,200 companies awaiting their piece of the $7.2 billion stimulus funding pie, two U.S. agencies – the U.S. Rural Utilities Service, or “RUS,” and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, or “NTIA,” – with the heavy task of distributing this money over the next year heard complaints from an upset U.S. senator...