The selection process for NTIA’s Broadband Technology Opportunities...
The selection process for NTIA’s Broadband Technology Opportunities Program was “highly inefficient” because it failed to provide a means to measure the cost-effectiveness of the proposals, said a Technology Policy Institute report released Thursday (http://bit.ly/1j7CdFc). NTIA’s selection process “seemed largely…
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subjective,” and it lacked an objective mechanism to compare the costs and the benefits of the proposals, said the report. As a result, the selection process created “massive inefficiencies” in the distribution of funds, said the report. “Some of the grantees received more than 30 times as much support as other grantees per mile of fiber deployed, and 100 times as much per new projected broadband connection.” A better alternative for distribution would have been via an auction process with the grants awarded on the basis of cost-effectiveness, said the report.