Broadband stimulus program changes loom

Days after one of its leaders announced a target date of early November for the first round of broadband stimulus funding grant awards, the federal agency that oversees much of the nation’s telecom policy-making reportedly said that rules governing the popular program will undergo changes.

According to the editor of one Washington, D.C.-based provider of news and data about broadband access and deployment, the chief of staff at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration – the U.S. Department of Commerce agency that advises the president on telecom policy – said changes to the broadband stimulus program could take hold later this month, following a comment period...