As part of the Recovery Act in 2009, Congress authorized $4.7 billion towards the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) grant program.  To contract this figure, according to data compiled last year, the private sector invested over $250 billion from 2008 to 2011 in broadband infrastructure improvements and development. Last December, The Daily Caller reported that [...]

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