Understanding What The Broadband Stimulus Does, and What It Doesn't Try To do

What are the merits of the broadband stimulus package? Looking at the broadband piece alone, it appears to be designed to address a very narrow problem: how do
you get build out in the high cost (usually rural) areas? And how does it do so in a way that creates the most jobs on the short term? It makes a nod to urban and suburban. And it is being used by the Administration to leverage, NOT SOLVE, the overall issues on how to keep incumbents from messing with "openness." Those who observe that this doesn't do enough for urban or how it doesn't address the question of convincing people they even need broadband in the first place, ignore how other portions of the bill work in different ways to re-enforce each other. The billions for health IT, digital education reform, and urban renewal and smart grid all act to supplement the build out and uptake issues. People who see no reason to get broadband will do so if it saves them a trip to doctor, for example. Funds "to deliver health IT services" go readily to build urban community wireless systems in poor neighborhoods.