President Bush signed the Broadband Data Improvement Act (S. 1492) into law. I’ve been tracking the progress of the bill.

Speed Matters wrote up the event. Blandin Strategy Board Member, Mike O’Connor wrote up the bill. Tech Dirt writes up the bill to talk about how the Senate gutted the bill; they took away funding.

I’m glad it passed. I’m glad that given everything else that going on that broadband is getting a little face time with policy makers. I do think that without funding, the most interesting parts of the bill are toothless – mostly I’d love to see the grants to identify barriers to broadband adoption that are part of the bill.