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New England & The Broadband Recovery Act

Posted by Dave Broadwin on April 06, 2009
On Friday I participated in a panel on general topic of funding at a conference entitled New England & The Broadband Recovery Act. Under the broadband portion of the stimulus package approximately $7.2 billion has been allocated to various broadband and related activities. As with the stimulus package as a whole, the main goal is to create jobs, but there are other aims as well. Others have questioned the wisdom of brining 100 megabit per second connectivity to remote places, but that’s the goal – like it or not. There are other aspects of this act that are terrifying and there are some hidden... More
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