$6 billion for rural broadband: a hatchet or a scalpel?

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Daily, Geoff (author) and App-Rising.com
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2009-01-15
    URL:
    http://app-rising.com/2009/01/6_billion_for_rural_broadband.html
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 171 Document Number: C28742
    Subject Term:
    distribution, expenditures, government policies, information needs, information services, information systems, Internet, online services, online systems, policies, rural areas, rural development, rural people, rural-urban difference, and broadband
    Notes:
    2 pages., Suggests the U.S. government use funds from an economic stimulus package to establish and operate a Rural Fiber Fund.

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