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A new study, released by Jeffrey A. Eisenach and Kevin W. Caves of Navigant Economics, examines the subsidization of rural broadband services by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). As was suspected, this program has proven to be an extremely wasteful and inefficient use of tax dollars...

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1 posted on 07/11/2011 9:21:20 AM PDT by 92nina
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Have posted this before...I live in a very rural part of the country and for years and years theres been talk of internet in our area. To date large sums of $ have been spent and reports written but no service. Its not surprising since all the grants get sucked up in the studies. Frankly, I would be surprised if it comes until the area has been McMansioned into a ‘burb. Few of my neighbors own a computer or even care to, much less ‘surf’ the web. Those remaining couldn’t generate enough revenue to justify the infrastructure. So, I think we’re in for another decade or so of studying.


2 posted on 07/11/2011 9:56:50 AM PDT by 556x45
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