U.S. agencies extend broadband grant application deadline

The number of organizations applying for broadband deployment grants and loans from two U.S. federal agencies has overloaded the agencies' servers and prompted them to extend the application deadline by six days. Companies and other organizations applying for broadband grants over the Internet have experienced "server delays" in recent days, said Mark Tolbert, acting broadband communications director with the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration.

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