Delay in naming bid winners - 2009-10-31 02:00:00 EDT | Multichannel News

Washington — Announcement of the winning bidders in the broadband-stimulus grant and loan program will be delayed by a month or so, according to heads of the relevant government agencies, with the first funding round pushed from year-end to February 2010.

That should be just fine with cable and telco operators, who have registered complaints about their ability to determine whether the unserved and underserved areas for which the government will underwrite broadband build-outs actually do lack broadband service...