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Broadband stimulus funds are coming soon

Update on U.S. government's approach to distributing broadband funds
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Broadband stimulus funds are coming soon

Jeff Caruso By Jeff Caruso
Within the massive American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, there is about $7.2 billion set aside for building out broadband infrastructure, and the process of getting that funding into carriers' hands is under way. Read full story

Jeff Caruso is site editor at Network World.

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Stimulus bill aims for 'national broadband plan' The U.S. economic stimulus package is law - all $787 billion of it - and of that, $7.2 billion has been set aside for improvements to the nation's broadband infrastructure. Let's take a closer look at what that means.

Readers weigh in on broadband stimulus A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the broadband portions of the recently passed U.S. economic stimulus bill, and it stirred a good deal of reaction from readers, who acknowledged the problems the bill is trying to ...

Broadband stimulus funding timeline set by government Members from several government agencies delivered on Tuesday a basic timeline for funding broadband stimulus projects, with the goal of getting all broadband stimulus money out the door by October 2010.

How Will the $7.2B Allotted for Broadband Stimulus Be Spent? In the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, recently enacted by Congress, many details regarding the allocation of funds for high-tech projects remain blurry. Nevertheless, the nation's tech community appears to be encouraged by the US$7.2 billion provision for broadband in the near $789 billion economic stimulus package signed into law by President Barack Obama earlier this week. Many observers believe that the allocation is a clear first step toward establishing a nationwide broadband strategy.

Groups push for broadband stimulus The U.S. Congress should keep money for broadband deployment in a huge economic stimulus package, despite some calls to trim it out of the bill, representatives of three groups said Friday.

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