Spending President Obama's Broadband Stimulus
President Obama has proposed a $7.2B broadband stimulus as part of the much larger economic stimulus package.
This money is aimed at helping rural communities get either wireline or wireless Internet access, on par, or even better than the rest of the country.
This is an exciting prospect for the industry and rural America but there are many questions left unanswered:
- Just how big is the problem?
- How far will $7.2B go towards solving it?
- What technologies are most appropriate?
- What are the trade-offs between wire-line and wireless?
- What business models can be supported?
- How can business, institutional and residential needs be met?
- How can openness be preserved?
- What is the right mix of government, private equity and consumer spending?
How can policy makers, and more importantly, the small operators who will ultimately spend the stimulus money make the informed decisions necessary
to lay the groundwork for a broader broadband initiative?
Interactive Broadband Consulting (IBB) stands ready to bridge the gap between policy and implementation as America puts the telecom industry to work finishing our information super highway.
- IBB has built itself up to be a major player in the broadband industry by providing technology strategy and implementation support to large operators as they have built out their own broadband networks
- It stands ready to provide a simplified approach to deploying broadband quickly and widely into rural America in partnership with small operators, municipalities and government
- By applying the lessons of our industry leading broadband experience to the job of connecting rural America, IBB will lead the way towards universal broadband
IBB’s Service offerings:
- Assistance to operators in network design, grant / loan writing, operational turn-up, marketing support and program management
- Support to policy makers through the analysis of the broadband opportunity, development of spending guidelines and establishment of business models
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