Broadband stimulus grants delayed until December - InternetNews.com

Facing a flood of applications for the first pool of stimulus money allocated for broadband projects, officials from the agencies administering the programs told a Senate panel today that the first grants and loans won't be issued until mid-December, about a month later than they had initially planned.

"We're going to take a few more weeks here to make sure we get this right," Lawrence Strickling, the assistant secretary of commerce for communications and information, told members of the Senate Commerce Committee at an oversight hearing on the broadband stimulus programs...