[1st-mile-nm] "Wired to fail"

[Roger Snodgrass]

I assume this group knows all about this, but just in case:


*"Wired to fail: * How a little known agency mishandled several billion
dollars of stimulus money trying to expand broadband coverage to rural
communities," by Tony Romm: "A POLITICO investigation has found that
roughly half of the nearly 300 projects that [the Rural Utilities Service]
approved as part of the 2009 Recovery Act have not yet drawn down the full
amounts they were awarded. ... If these networks do not draw all their cash
by the end of September, they will have to forfeit what remains. In other
words, they altogether may squander as much as $277 million in
still-untapped federal funds, which can't be spent elsewhere in other
neglected rural communities. ...

*"[S]cores of rural residents *who should have benefited from better
Internet access ... might continue to lack access to the sort of reliable,
high-speed service that is common in America's cities. Even RUS admits it's
not going to provide better service to the 7 million residents it once
touted; instead, the number in the hundreds of thousands."
http://politi.co/1SKKGjg
<http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=6899ff94fe0d350b4d966e6a6eef991e804ac2e62a5593e34907f6223d7a0b62>


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