A Comprehensive, Pragmatic Rural Broadband Stimulus Package

[Commentary] broadband stimulus package must do is simple: Spur deployment of networks, Create jobs, Provide long-term value, and Work as quickly as possible. We need to identify if there is a backlog of shovel-ready projects that policy can help get moving. We need to put resources into the hands of communities so they can start determining their own fate now rather than waiting for higher levels of government and industry to make decisions for them. We need to make a big pot of money available to anyone willing to bring broadband to the unserved as quickly as possible. We need to provide a mechanism whereby competition can still be encouraged so wherever possible we don't invite the establishment of monopoly providers. Finally, we need to start writing checks to get all education, healthcare, and government facilities wired together as we can't afford to have any of these vital institutions not online.