Universal Service in the Broadband Age

Proposal to serve those without braodband available by using stimulus funding to deploy middle mile fiber and provision the first mile with cutting edge wireless broadband. Thess "no regrets" policies get the biggest bang for the buck and meet the fundamntal goal of the Communications Act to deliver to 'all people of the United States, adquate facilities at reasonable charges.' Middle mile fiber is necessary to deliver broadband no matter what tehcnology is used for the first mile. Cutting edge wireless is a "two-fer" in unserved areas. The unserved receive mobile computing, which will be a permananet feature of the 21st century communications ecology, and they get service that supports the applications necessary for eocnomic, social and civic participation in cyberspace, which is a vast improvmeent on what they currently have available.