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  • IBM eyes stimulus funds for broadband over power lines

    04/18/2009 8:23:05 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 10 replies · 693+ views
    Yahoo Finance ^ | 2009 | Phil Berlowitz
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - IBM (NYSE: IBM - news) plans to take advantage of the U.S. economic stimulus package signed earlier on Tuesday by offering Internet services over power lines to more rural consumers. IBM said its venture with International Broadband Electric Communications (IBEC), a company that provides broadband over power line (BPL) services, had begun to sign up Internet customers in rural parts of Alabama, Indiana, Michigan and Virginia and that it hoped to access more government funds. The economic stimulus law signed by President Barack Obama included $2.5 billion for the Agricultural Department to expand broadband service in...
  • Bush Talks Broadband

    01/21/2006 7:50:54 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 29 replies · 780+ views
    Internet News ^ | January 20, 2006 | Roy Mark
    President Bush made one of his rare public comments on broadband Thursday, promising that the United States will "do better" in increasing broadband penetration rates. But he didn't say how. Taking audience questions after an economic address in the Washington area suburb of Sterling, Va., Bush was asked about legislative efforts to limit municipal efforts to establish Wi-Fi networks and America's falling rank in worldwide broadband penetration rates. "It's interesting . . . because I laid out the opposite vision, which was that broadband ought to be available and accessible all throughout the country by a set period of time,"...