According to a statement by the USDA's Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), Uncle Sam will be consolidating the two remaining broadband stimulus funding rounds into one. According to the government, they're merging the funding rounds "to increase efficiency and better accommodate applicants." The government also issued a fifteen-day RFI requesting feedback from bidders aimed at improving the application process. So far, about 2,200 different companies and organizations have put in bids for the $7.2 billion in available funding, making two additional funding rounds a little silly for the volume of demand, versus the limited funding available.