[1st-mile-nm] Fwd: GigaLaw.com Daily News, May 3, 2007

[Marianne Granoff]

FYI. From another list.


>Lawmakers Debate Problems in Rural Broadband Program
>      Members of a House committee charged that a five-year, $1.2 billion 
> program to expand broadband Internet services to rural communities has 
> missed many unserved areas while channeling hundreds of millions of 
> dollars in subsidized loans to companies in places where service already 
> exists. "If you don't fix this, I guarantee you this committee will," 
> House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin C. Peterson (D-Minn.) told 
> James M. Andrew, administrator of the Rural Utilities Service at the U.S. 
> Department of Agriculture.
>      Read more: 
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/01/AR2007050101919.html