Second round of broadband stimulus being pushed back

With the finish line for round one of the broadband stimulus being pushed back even further, I'm already growing increasingly concerned about the fate of the second round.

To review, the NOFA for the first round came out in July. By August it had attracted 2,200 applications. It's now November and the only applications that have been approved are a handful of mapping projects, and the whole of the first round of funding won't be completed until February, six months after the applications were submitted...