President Obama wants to “get broadband to every community in America,” and Congress is poised to include funding to upgrade and expand broadband Internet networks in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan. As trade groups and labor unions lobby for funds to expand telecommunications systems, questions remain about how specific incentives and oversight policies will spur development and create jobs while avoiding waste and fraud.
We thank to Raquel Noriega for all the information that she sent us.
Resources:
- Center for Regulatory and Market Studies
- A National Technology Agenda for the New Administration
- Banda larga. Usa e Europa: modelli regolatori a confronto
- Pew Internet & American Life Project Reports
- IIA – A Call for a National Broadband Strategy
Downloads
- A Connected Nation’s Summary of The Broadband Data Improvement Act October 9, 2008 [Download PDF - 173.2 KiB]
- Broadband Provisions in the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act [Download PDF - 243.5.2 KiB]
- Communications Workers of America Proposals to Stimulate Broadband Investment [Download PDF - 0.72 KiB]
- Developing a “National Broadband Strategy”: Understanding the OECD Data and Drivers of Broadband Adoption by George S. Ford [Download PDF - 0.48 KiB]
- The Digital Road to Recovery by Robert D. Atkinson, Daniel Castro and Stephen J. Ezell [Download PDF - 0.48 KiB]
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