Broadband for Rural America

Good advice even though somewhat self-serving.

Broadband is the answer of a rural economic revival in the United States. Or so thinks Nortel CEO Bill Owens, who believes unless the US government gets its broadband act together, US will start lagging behind broadband believers like China.

“If rural America does not have ready access to this information and the infrastructure on which it is delivered, we will see the gap in opportunity and prosperity widen between rural and urban America,” Owens said. He think special tax breaks for carriers who provide broadband in the boonies and feels that we need to get “Setting a goal to bring at least 10 to 20 Mbps of bandwidth to every subscriber in America in the near term and 100 megabits within the next decade.”

Link: Om Malik on Broadband.