See the highlighted projects here... http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/20091217-recovery-act-investments-broadband.pdf
-Matt On Dec 17, 2009, at 3:20 PM, David E. Smith wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 13:24, Robert West <robert.w...@just- > micro.com>wrote: > >> So how did it get through? :) >> >> > The grants were reviewed and scored by independent volunteers (I was > one), > who scored each of them using a fairly complex rubric. It covered > things > like "does this meet one of the government's broadband deployment and > economic stimulus goals," of course, but there also were a lot of > points for > things like "is this budget realistic" and "will this technology > actually do > what the applicant says it will." Obviously, the volunteers' scores > weren't > the only factor considered by NTIA, but I'm proud to have been a bit > of a > nonsense-filter. Obviously I can't talk about any of the specific > applications I reviewed, but the five applications, totaling over 1000 > pages, had a couple doozies in there. Some folks were interested in > trying > to build out broadband, others were pretty clearly just making a > cash grab. > I'm hoping I was able to do a little bit to help the former and > quell the > latter. > > David Smith > MVN.net > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
