Government’s $4B Broadband package buoys channel partners

Channel partners serving outlying communities stand to benefit from the U.S. Commerce Department’s newly released $4 billion in stimulus funding to bring high-speed Internet access to underserved areas throughout the country.

The federal government recently made available grants and loans amounting to more than half of the overall $7.2 billion authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) for broadband expansion to communities with limited or no high-speed Internet service...