John Chambers op-ed in San Jose Mercury News: “Time to Broadband Our Economy”
Wanted to bring this op-ed in yesterday’s San Jose Mercury News to your attention by our Chairman and CEO John Chambers. Entitled “Time to Broadband the Economy” he discusses the stimulus package and gives some advice to the incoming Obama administration.
He states, in part, “President-elect Barack Obama’s ambitious economic recovery plan has a goal to create 3 million American jobs in the next two years. Broadband is a part of the answer.
Broadband has the potential to transform our country. It will create jobs in the growth sectors of our economy — jobs that are driving the collaboration and interaction economy. Obama deserves our full support as he looks to revitalize our economy. An economic stimulus package that focuses on infrastructure must put America’s broadband infrastructure at the head of the list. We have the opportunity to bring broadband to those who do not have access to it today and to dramatically improve the quality and speed of existing broadband to 21st century standards. Broadband is the highway to our future.”
Posted by Cisco PR at 09:30AM PST
Indiana heart Aug 5, 2009
When the stimulus was proposed, I was a little skeptical about the size, scope and the time it will take to implement. Now six months later, I am glad to see that it did help the economy out a great deal, although I hoped it would’ve been much larger than the version that passsed.