Stimulus money – rural broadband – long-term impact - GLG New

May 13, 2009

Initially like many, I believed the big established telecom carriers would take the stimulus money and use it.

You would have thought that the big established carriers would have taken the stimulus money and used it to build out rural networks. Then I remembered that current business models used by the telecom carriers will not support a rural broadband build-out. The lack of a workable business model is the biggest impediment to the large established carriers building a rural broadband network (wireless or landline)...