Shovel-ready broadband stimulus
June 3, 2009
The White House and Congress now plan to spend tens of billions of dollars on a revamp of the nation’s infrastructure, including bridges, roads and highways. That effort includes a bold, new national strategy to build a powerful broadband highway right into rural American homes, a countryside that has been kept largely in the dark, circa 1980, when it comes to ramping up onto the Information super highway.
There’s a lot of money at stake in getting the country up to speed with South Korea, Taiwan and Japan, which have long eclipsed the USA in broadband services. Even Australia, France and Sweden have already launched ambitious broadband build outs for their rural residents...
The White House and Congress now plan to spend tens of billions of dollars on a revamp of the nation’s infrastructure, including bridges, roads and highways. That effort includes a bold, new national strategy to build a powerful broadband highway right into rural American homes, a countryside that has been kept largely in the dark, circa 1980, when it comes to ramping up onto the Information super highway.
There’s a lot of money at stake in getting the country up to speed with South Korea, Taiwan and Japan, which have long eclipsed the USA in broadband services. Even Australia, France and Sweden have already launched ambitious broadband build outs for their rural residents...
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