[IP] Ensuring Effective Broadband Stimulus -- Analysis of Draft Economic Stimulus Legislation

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

I have not read it yet djf

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From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>
Date: January 26, 2009 5:04:38 PM EST
To: dave@farber.net, "Ip ip" <ip@v2.listbox.com>
Subject: Ensuring Effective Broadband Stimulus -- Analysis of Draft  
Economic Stimulus Legislation

Dave:

For IP, if you will.

The white paper at

http://www.brettglass.com/bbstim.pdf

contains a comprehensive analysis of the broadband-related provisions  
of the "American Recovery and Investment Act of 2009" -- the new  
"stimulus" bill. Please copy freely and circulate widely. The  
provisions of the stimulus bill are vital not only to economic  
recovery but to the future of broadband in the US. If the stimulus is  
"done right," we'll see a surge in broadband availability and related  
economic activity. If not, the US will remain behind the curve and the  
resources devoted to the program will be wasted. The document contains  
numerous Oxford-style footnotes with links to key source material,  
including the draft legislation.

I am available to discuss these ideas and recommendations by phone or  
e-mail, or (time permitting) to elaborate on them at conferences and  
symposia where this and related topics are being discussed.

--Brett Glass, LARIAT

P.S. -- Those who have received earlier versions of the document via e- 
mail should instead use and distribute the one at the link above, in  
which several typographical errors from previous versions have been  
corrected.





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