Miss. receiving $5M federal grant for broadband
Miss. receiving M federal grant for broadband
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Mississippi will use part of a $ 5 million federal grant to create a nonprofit group that will try to increase high-speed Internet access through broadband.
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Government ‘stupidity’ open to communication
What is it about Mexicans and telecommunications? The world’s richest man, Carlos Slim, who amassed much of his fortune through his ownership of Mexico’s dominant phone companies, told people privately yesterday that spending $ 42 billion on the National Broadband Network was one of the stupidest government decisions he had seen – and he had seen plenty.
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