Broadband Stimulus Effort Hits Congestion

Amid much uncertainty around the broadband stimulus effort, even the application deadline has changed, as the NTIA and RUS were forced to postpone the due date for online applications from Aug. 14 to Aug. 20. As the online application process was poised to draw to a close, the agencies’ servers became overloaded, which reportedly caused great worry for some applicants, who as a result submitted multiple requests for funding in hopes their applications wouldn’t get lost in a black hole.

Whether one week will be enough time for these government agencies to dig out of this mess, address their technical difficulties and respond to applicants’ filing concerns should they choose to do that, however, remains in question...