Colleges Angle for Billions to Build Obama's Broadband Network

As the federal government prepares to pour billions of stimulus dollars into increased broadband Internet access, colleges are trying to claim much of the money and shape the emerging national networking policy.

Their focus is $4.7-billion that will be doled out under a new grant program administered by a small Commerce Department agency called the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. In Congressional testimony in April, a senior official of the agency, known as

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