The chances are increasing exponentially that the government's $350 million stimulus program to track where high-speed Internet access is, and where it isn't, will become a massive boondoggle controlled by the very people with the most at stake in creating their own reality -- the telephone and cable companies.
That industry needs to present as pretty a picture of broadband deployment as it can, in part to prevent aggressive legislation from being passed by Congress or new rules approved by the...
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