Stimulus funds mixed impact | Wireless Week

With $4 billion of federal stimulus money coming down the pipe in December and $3.2 billion more on its way, you'd think there'd be no debate about the potential impact of the funds. It will be big, right? Well, not so fast.

"This is all really uncertain stuff," says Frost & Sullivan analyst Mike Jude. "It's not clear to us that it's going to have any significant impact on broadband access. We might have saved $7.3 billion just by letting the market work..."