Existing rural providers should receive broadband stimulus funding: Applicant

With the amount of internal resources and know-how required to apply for federal dollars under the government’s broadband stimulus program, smaller organizations had a very difficult time navigating the process, according to the head of one Gualala, Calif.-based cable TV company that’s seeking to restore high-speed broadband Internet services to a remote area of the state that’s been without them fore more than two years.

Thomas E. Gelardi, owner and LLC manager of Central Valley Cable TV, LLC , told TMCnet in an interview (printed in full below) that gathering engineering certifications, legal opinions and financial statements “was, to say the least, taxing...”