The heads of several telecommunications trade associations wrote to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday night urging them to preserve the economic stimulus package's broadband deployment incentives as Democrats and Republicans continued to spar over what should stay and what should be slashed from the increasingly expensive measure. More than $9 billion in the proposal would fund Internet grants and tax credits.
"Broadband provisions in the stimulus bill should give the president the flexibility to put funds to use in ways that will most quickly and effectively create jobs, stimulate economic growth, and bring broadband to the greatest number of Americans in the shortest possible time -- not attempt to settle broad policy arguments that need and deserve more deliberate and thoughtful consideration," wrote executives from CTIA: The Wireless Association; U.S. Telecom; the Western Telecommunications Alliance; the Independent Telephone and Telecommunications Alliance; and OPASTCO, the Organization for the Promotion and Advancement of Small Telecommunications Companies.
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