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Letter Thanking Chairmen Upton and Walden for Broadband Spectrum Provisions

Mobile broadband is a major driver of economic growth, innovation, and job creation, but is threatened by spectrum scarcity. You have successfully negotiated a deal that will make high-quality spectrum available to the private sector to continue the mobile broadband boom, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs.

Technology Legislative Alerts

House to Investigate Waste of Broadband Stimulus Funds

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A hearing has been set for Feb. 10 in a House Communications Subcommittee to hear witness testimony regarding federal stimulus funding for broadband telecommunications networks.

The government stimulus package enacted in 2009 included over $7 billion to stimulate broadband infrastructure expansion. Government subsidies have been largely focused on the creation and expansion of municipal broadband structures. At least at the outset, the intent of the legislation was to develop these networks in unserved and underserved areas, such as rural communities.

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