That bill is big news !!!
Personally, I think the the government needs to pass legislation that will
have a quicker call to action, though.
I call it the petition for a grant program. I believe any community that is
underserved (no body will come), regardless of wether its rural, suburban or
urban, should have equal right to get funds to gain broadband. This include
low income projects, or small hole out side of range, where there may not be
a financial insentive for large palayers to ever focus on delivering
broadband to them. That means ALL AMERICANS deserve broadband, regardless
of where they may live. I believe if a community can get a petition by a
certain number of people, proving that they could not get broadband at
affrodable rates in line with nearby cities, thay community should be able
to get a grant, that can go only for payment to a third party service
provider (such as E-rate). (service provider being joint applicant).
Basically we need to minimze spending money on groups to think about
broadband, and start funding groups that are ready to install broadband, and
where their are consumers ready to start paying for broadband (monthly
fees), but need the subsidy to incourage the initial installation.
Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 1:32 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] [Fwd: Durbin introduces bill to encourage high
speedinternet access in rural areas]
In a study of Iowa City, which introduced a muni fiber network in 199? -
in comparison to the next city over that was doing better but did not
install fiber -
housing rates increased in IC
tax base went up
large biz came to town
average per capita went up
Court reporters; medical transcriptionists; virtaul assistants; voice over
people; architects; programmers - all need broadband. And they would like
to live in better America. That's how BB improves the economy.
All from BB Properties mag. in 2005.
- Peter
Travis Johnson wrote:
Hi,
Can someone explain to me how having broadband (instead of dial-up
internet that EVERYONE can get) is going to create 61,000 jobs per year
for the next 20 years? If it will create jobs from people doing more
online, then it will decrease jobs from the brick and mortar businesses
going out of business. Am I missing something?
Travis
Microserv
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