[1st-mile-nm] Fwd: GigaLaw.com Daily News, January 23, 2009

[Marianne Granoff]

FYI.


>House Committee OKs $3 Billion for Net Service
>      The House Energy and Commerce Committee backed including about 
> $3 billion in grants to expand Internet service as part of a larger 
> economic stimulus bill, including a provision requiring "open 
> access" in wireless service and on the Internet. The Democratically 
> controlled committee cleared the provisions aimed at expanding 
> high-speed Internet and wireless service in rural and hard-to-serve 
> areas over objections from several Republican members.
>      Read more: 
> http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE50L67O20090122