NTIA,RUS Move Broadband Bid Deadlines

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

The
National Telecommunications & Information Administration and the USDA said
Tuesday that they have granted extensions on certain bidding categories for the
second round of broadband stimulus funding as part of the Broadband Technology
Opportunities Program or BTOP.

Applicants
for Comprehensive Community Infrastructure projects will get until March 26 to
file to NTIA, while computer center and sustainable adoption bids will get no
extra time. Applications to the USDA's Rural Utility Service for infrastructure
projects will have until March 29.

All
bids had been due March 15, and NTIA chief Larry Strickling had said as
recently as last Friday (Feb. 28) that the deadline for all applications was
not moving.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.