Broadband stimulus: NTIA has Nov. award date in sight

COMPTEL PLUS — The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) continues to cull through broadband stimulus grant applications, seven days each week, in hopes of awarding the first round of money by its somewhat-nebulous November deadline.

“We are on track,” said Angela Simpson, advisor to the assistant secretary for NTIA, during a regulatory panel at the Fall 2009 COMPTEL PLUS Convention & Expo this week...