New broadband stimulus requirements include urban cities

Urban cities will not be excluded from applying for broadband stimulus grants, as they were, for the most part, in the first round of funding distributed in December 2009.

New, separate notices of funds available (NOFA) have been released detailing eligibility requirements from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Rural Utilities Service (RUS), the two federal agencies charged with disbursing $7.2 billion set aside in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for broadband projects...