There appeared to be some confusion from applicants who were not named among the first awardees yesterday. Several thought that yesterday's announcement for awards which amounted to less than 3% of the applicants and only $128 million of the 4 billion up for grabs this round, was it as for the Round 1 process.
Although various statements from officials and the press following this proceeding indicated that was NOT the case and even I tried to make that clear in my tweets, I still saw scores of sullen faces (metaphorically speaking and through my computer screen) after the list of 18 were made public.
Good thing the NTIA made the point abundantly clear on its website today:
Awards will continue to be announced from the First Round application pool on a rolling basis into February 2010
As I stated in past tweets, if you hadn't been invited and gone through the due diligence process by now, you had no business even expecting to be listed among the first awards.
I guess after some companies filed their application, they stopped watching the process and sat down idly waiting for the results and didn't not bother to educate themselves on the next steps.
That became very apparent by the number of different characters tweeting about the stimulus via the channels: #btop #bbstim #bip #ntia #rus #ruralbroadband #broadband etc etc etc
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