Some Filed Too Many Stimulus Grant Applications

Some applicants filed so many applications I have to wonder why. Were the grant writers paid per application? There seems to be no reason.

Wireless equipment maker DigitalBridge Communications Corp of Ashburn, VA filed 64 applications across several midwestern and southern states.

New EA Inc, which as Flow Mobile filed 112 applications, plus one application as New EA, also submitted 19 pages of comments to the FCC concerning the broadband stimulus. A key request was that fixed and mobile wireless be considered separate services. Many will disagree.

Tower maker GlenMartin of Boonville, MO filed 14 applications.

Jedai Networks, a maker of broadband equipment which says it’s based in Atlanta, filed 28 applications.

Utopian Wireless Corporation, founded in 2006 to deploy WiMAX in rural areas, filed 40 applications.

Some filed many applications for a reason.

KeyOn Communications, a publicly owned WISP (KEYO.OB), filed 11 applications covering various areas.

The Northeast Michigan Council of Governments/Northern Michigan Broadband Cooperative filed 33 applications, each covering a different point to point fiber link between two institutions. I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume there was a reason to file separate applications rather than one consolidated application.

Middletown, RI-based business-focused WISP TowerStream submitted 19 applications, but I’ll assume they had a good reason.

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  1. Internet Statistics » Blog Archive » Georgia’s Perdue Provides a Brochure says:
    October 30, 2009 at 5:12 pm

    […] 28 applications. I don’t have the details on Jedai’s applications, but I worry that some submitted too many applications. Utopian Wireless Corporation, on the other hand, was on the list. Utopian appears to have done its […]