Broadband stimulus is a wireless opportunity

Officials at the National Telecommunications & Information Administration and Rural Utilities Service seem to have worked hard to ensure platform neutrality for projects to be funded under the broadband stimulus provisions of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, and that likely means an unusual opportunity for wireless providers, especially in rural areas.

The RUS program, which focuses on rural areas, defines “rural” as an area where “75 percent” of a funded area “lacks sufficient access to high speed broadband service to facilitate economic development...”