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A Stimulating Conversation on the Broadband Stimulus

A hot topic issue at the MTA Convention was the recently passed economic stimulus bill and the impact it will have on broadband deployments. After talking to a number of people at the MTA confab, the consensus about how the broadband stimulus is going to be managed seems to be, to paraphrase the Hollywood screenwriter William Goldman, “Nobody knows anything.” Alan Weissberger has a very interesting article that will soon be published on this topic. At the MTA, we caught up with Andy Brown of Bennet and Bennet who provided an excellent summary of the package and what the broadband stimulus could mean to independent telcos in this brief video interview.

 

One response to “A Stimulating Conversation on the Broadband Stimulus”

  1. Emmett Smith Avatar

    How to Create Bubbles 101

    $4.7 billion by September 2010 will do the trick. The havoc that this will cause will be devastating.

    There is a reason why areas are not served or underserved. The blowback from this will be just as destructive as forcing mortgage loans on underserved areas. After the government money runs out, who is going to pay to support the infrastructure, especially in an economy that will still be getting worse?

    Hopefully the IOCs that have already provided broadband service in 95% of their serving areas will refuse this money rather than have their businesses controlled by the government.

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