Comments on: U.S. Government Delays Broadband Grants

By: Found: Missing Broadband Stimulus Funds! – GigaOM

Found: Missing Broadband Stimulus Funds! – GigaOM — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:27:56 +0000

[...] those of you who don’t recall, the first round was supposed to dispense $4.7 billion and was plagued by delays and a mystery of missing [...]

By: Hard Questions for the Broadband Stimulus Program – GigaOM

Hard Questions for the Broadband Stimulus Program – GigaOM — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:06:08 +0000

[...] while I get that it’s difficult to allocate $7.2 billion worth of grants in less than two years, as the NTIA and RUS is charged with, I still want to know if the RUS only [...]

By: Where Will $4.7B in Broadband Bucks Go? You Decide!

Where Will $4.7B in Broadband Bucks Go? You Decide! — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:31:26 +0000

[...] wants to give out $4.7 billion (only $1.6 billion in this first round) in 14 months it has to cut some corners to make sure it can handle the load. That means bringing on citizens to review grant applications. [...]

By: It’s Official: Julius Genachowski Is FCC Chair

It’s Official: Julius Genachowski Is FCC Chair — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:14:31 +0000

[...] the position. Given that the National Telecommunications and Information Administration is set to issue the guidelines informing people how it plans to dispense of $4.7 billion in stimulus funds for broadband before [...]

By: FCC Confirmation Hearings Set for June 16

FCC Confirmation Hearings Set for June 16 — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:31:06 +0000

[...] Commissioner Robert McDowell. This is great news, given that the current administration is spending billions on broadband in the next 15 months, and there are several other pressing issues that the FCC needs to undertake, [...]

By: Andrew Schmitt

Andrew Schmitt — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:22:34 +0000

The situation is much worse for the makers of equipment. What the Government has effectively done is forced all rural carriers to hold off on capex and wait until government dollars become available instead.

Far from being a stimulus, it is an anti-stimulus for the telecom equipment business, and yet another example of the unintended consequences of government meddling.

What SHOULD have been done is simply make the grants retroactive to Jan 1 2009 for all spending found to meet certain criteria. At least then some companies would have spent and taken the chance they would have been compensated.

By: Need4Speed

Need4Speed — Sat, 23 May 2009 13:49:45 +0000

I think the telcos need something like RocketConnect. Does not require heavy infrastructure investments, with at least 5-10 times more bandwidth. Solves the last-mile network latency to the homes.
http://www.rocketstream.com/rocketconnect/

By: Logic Computer Services Falkirk

Logic Computer Services Falkirk — Thu, 21 May 2009 23:40:38 +0000

wish we were getting the same kind of speeds that japan get, its amazing being able to download a movie in 5 min

By: Michael W.

Michael W. — Thu, 21 May 2009 23:35:16 +0000

The US Government: We care about your connection speed… enough to say we’re going to do something about it and then ignore you instead.

*Guh*

By: Steve Ardire

Steve Ardire — Thu, 21 May 2009 23:06:01 +0000

Hey no worries the USA is #25 ;)

Top 25 Countries in Household Broadband Penetration – Q32006 – Q42006
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0704/

I’d venture to say the USA has moved up little or not at all but was too disgusted with Government Delays Broadband Grants to look for something more recent