Another broadband bill in the works. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Stephen Ronan <sro...@panix.com> Reply-To: Telecom Regulation & the Internet<cyberteleco...@listserv.aol.com> Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 13:35:08 -0500
In addition to the broadband provisions of the House and Senate Appropriations Committee stimulus package bills, there's now S. 350 from the Senate Finance Committee; see: "Legislative Text of The Senate Finance Committee Provisions for The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009". http://finance.senate.gov/sitepages/legislation.htm Part VIII is "Broadband Internet access tax credit." That can be found at pp. 61-82. Its language largely derives from "The Broadband Internet Access Act of 2000", S. 2698 sponsored in 2000 by the late Senator Moynihan et al. The bill has been repeatedly introduced since then with a few modifications (e.g., increased bit rates), for example: HR 1818 "The Broadband Deployment Acceleration Act of 2007". I'm having a difficult time trying to grasp its implications. Does anyone know if any party has yet tried to explain in clear language what it means.... what its impacts would likely be in regard to cost, jobs created, number of subscribers likely to receive broadband service who would not otherwise have broadband service, or whose broadband service quality is radically improved, and the short term and long-term effects on competition among broadband providers and, relatedly, affordability for subscribers? - Stephen Ronan --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Wireless High Speed Broadband service from Info-Ed, Inc. as low as $30.00/mth. Check out www.info-ed.com/wireless.html for information. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
