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Buying Broadband A Boost
Publication Date: March 2009
Publisher(s): National Institute on Money in State Politics (U.S.)
Author(s): Peter Quist
Funder(s): Ford Foundation; Open Society Institute; Pew Charitable Trusts; Rockefeller Brothers Fund; Sunlight Foundation
Funder(s): Ford Foundation; Open Society Institute; Pew Charitable Trusts; Rockefeller Brothers Fund; Sunlight Foundation
Topic: Media, telecommunications, and information (Electronic data processing, transmission, and retrieval)
Politics (Campaigns, lobbying, and pressure groups)
Keywords: Internet; infrastructure
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
The federal government and many state governments are making efforts to increase or improve access to broadband internet services. With this attention in the states, communication companies are spending millions of dollars on state campaigns and hiring thousands of state-level lobbyists.