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Broadband Investment for Real !
by Andrew McCaskey
Far More than a ‘Two-Fer’
The incoming administration’s broadband investment stimulus plan outline was just announced – and while we are throwing away $Billions on all sorts of schemes for economic stimulus, this is one $44Billion package that has the marks of something that makes sense. It would be money well spent.
Fiber is the preferred technology – not that continued investment in other technology is impossible, just that accelerated depreciation and government encouragement is going to flow to the medium that provides a competitive level of speed – not by US standards, but by world standards. If the infrastructure does not provide 20MPS up and 20 Mbps down, it does not qualify for the investment tax credit. The demand side is not neglected either – The plan directly provides tax credits to incomes below $60,000 with children for braodband access – $180 per year for broadband service and up to $200 for rounters and wireless access points.
The bulk of the money will go for a grant program to directly encourage rural broadband investment. All told, more than 3 millions jobs can be created over three years by the combination of investments for supply and demand of broadband in the United States.
In addition to jobs for construction and capital equipment, the infrastructure, built into every school in the country would be inplace to support other major initiaitives in health care and telemedicine. it is truly as essential to the economic competitiveness of the US as the Interstate Highway System of the 1960′s.
The biggest advantage of this plan ? The fact that this investment is paying forward and visibly investing in infrastructure and programs that are clearly the future – not salvaging or patching up the troubled industries of the past.
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