U.S. agencies face broadband stimulus challenges

U.S. government agencies may have a difficult time promptly allocating the $7.2 billion for broadband deployment in an economic stimulus package recently passed by Congress, two broadband experts said. A large percentage of the money for broadband in the stimulus package, passed in mid-February, won't be spent until 2011 or later, said Jeffrey Eisenach, chairman and managing partner of Empiris LLC, an economic consulting firm.

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