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By: How The Broadband Stimulus So Far Fails Innovation

How The Broadband Stimulus So Far Fails Innovation — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:51:38 +0000

[...] surrounding the release of $4 billion in federal funds aimed at providing better broadband and creating jobs announced last week have so far disappointed applicants hoping to deliver advanced broadband [...]

By: DJR

DJR — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:06:36 +0000

What’s being said is that jobs are going to have to be short term extremely high paying or long term life sustaining. These jobs are good examples of what are NOT going to work. Lets all go out and move around the country, not be home, not have a long term residency, and be subjected to the elements and labor. Great for young high school grads for a year off or summer breaks. So is a combine crew and trucking. Neither listed as the top 25 desired jobs.

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By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:27:24 +0000

As they build out infrastructure and gain new customers they’ll need more people for things like support, sales, installations, engineering, etc as well. It may only immediately create temp jobs, but those temps could be moved into installation or network management positions instead.

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By: Doug Mohney

Doug Mohney — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:04:06 +0000

If you’re going to get on the soap box and play the Holier-Than-Thou card when it comes to talking about policy, perhaps a bit more than a drive-by/shoot-from-the-hip effort might be nice?

By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:39:25 +0000

It just wasn’t as big a focus for me as the ideal of faster broadband.

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Broadband Stimulus to Boost Jobs, Not Just Access « Employment Now — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:06:51 +0000

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By: Barry Tighe

Barry Tighe — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:29:18 +0000

The legislation was definitely for job creation and he absolutely had to trumpet that as part of the effort to get hands on some of it. If jobs really are they key, getting back SOME of the 34 jobs isn’t viable. As already stated, any jobs created would be temporary.

“Towerstream, which currently employs 150 people…”? I would check that number, it is far below that.

By: Doug Mohney

Doug Mohney — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:59:55 +0000

“I’ve neglected to consider how many jobs are created”

Neglected to consider, or not paying attention to what Blair Levin has been saying over the past 6 months?

By: Jeff Scot

Jeff Scot — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:56:13 +0000

The main purpose of the legislation is job creation. He is probably talking it up so he has a better chance at getting the funding. It can create temporary new jobs for laying down fiber and installing equipment, but once that is done, no more work is needed. It doesn’t create new consistent job growth on its own, just temporary. After that, the hope is the new faster internet can lead to innovation and opportunities to those in rural areas. The problem now is that the definition in the NOFA defines broadband as half a t-1 which is too low to define as broadband in my opinion.