Broadband stimulus: Wireless makes sense, but check the ROI | Telecom Asia

Improving essential US infrastructure was one of the many objectives of The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. While this was primarily aimed at correcting the long-term neglect of America's highways and bridges, it also included funding to increase the amount and quality of broadband access, known generally as the broadband stimulus.

In terms of the broadband stimulus funds, the rules for evaluating broadband proposals were somewhat byzantine, consuming 120 pages of tightly-written prose. But they made one thing clear: Wireless broadband solutions would be an acceptable response and would be encouraged, in fact...