Global broadband spending jumps as China boom, stimulus high linger

There seems to have been an uptick lately in U.S. carrier deployment activity with the broadband stimulus program, and several telcos have talked of increasing capex during 2011. However, when you look globally, countries like China really are carrying the broadband spending load, and you have to wonder what will happen in countries like the U.S. that have been leaning a bit on stimulus after the stimulus era is over.