Comments on: What about Rural? http://blandinonbroadband.org/2009/02/09/what-about-rural/ News and information on broadband use, policy, and trends Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:18:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Should mapping precede stimulus distribution? « Blandin on Broadband http://blandinonbroadband.org/2009/02/09/what-about-rural/#comment-4923 Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:16:42 +0000 http://blandinonbroadband.org/?p=1555#comment-4923 [...] national policy would help direct some of the money, more importantly I think that would help get more money [...]

]]> By: Bill Coleman http://blandinonbroadband.org/2009/02/09/what-about-rural/#comment-4764 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:34:52 +0000 http://blandinonbroadband.org/?p=1555#comment-4764 Ann, you make a number of great points. The primary issue here is a total lack of broadband policy in the US. The availability of funds turns this into a political football and those with the best lobbyists win rather than a rational distribution of funds targeted at achieving goals.

Definitions of what is broadband or what is rural are lacking so that even when people are talking about these issues, they are often not communicating.

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