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Article: Continue to Say No to Municipal Broadband Networks.(Report)
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- Network Weekly News
- Article date:
- March 23, 2009
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NTIA policymakers should reject any plans to expand the costly and failed initiatives of municipal broadband networks when they meet tomorrow to discuss action for the stimulus bill's broadband grant programs.
"The NTIA should not support the advancement of taxpayer-funded networks," said Bartlett Cleland, director of the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) Center for Technology Freedom. "With all of the bailouts and pork projects taxpayers are already shouldering, the last thing they should have to pay for is a bunch of failed municipal broadband projects on top of it all."
According to a brand new report released and authored by IPI senior fellow ...