Adding yet another item to the growing list of suggested “economic incentives” to ease the current financial crisis, the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) has asked Congress to include broadband deployment incentives, arguing the payback could be in the hundreds of billions of dollars annually.

In a letter to Democratic and Republican leaders of both houses of Congress, signed by TIA President Grant Seiffert, TIA argued that such a broadband stimulus would result in everything from a reduction of dependence on foreign oil to reduced medical costs, even helping a bit with the housing crisis.

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