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[barrons] Vice-President Joe Biden announced the recipients of $182 million of the grants from the broadband-stimulus package and effectively delayed the announcement of the bulk of the grants from this month until March 2010. The government also committed to announce a total of $2 billion project awards within 75 days (implying early March).

Recall, the first round of awards had been previously delayed from Nov. 7 until December and was originally expected to total $4 billion. The timeline for awards is clearly sliding out.

Broadband-Stimulus Beneficiaries