New legislation in the Senate takes on small business recommendations...
New legislation in the Senate takes on small business recommendations in the National Broadband Plan. Senate Small Business Committee Chair Mary Landrieu, D-La., and committee member Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., last week introduced S-3506, which would require the U.S. Small…
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Business Administration to appoint a broadband and emerging IT coordinator who would help small businesses adopt and use broadband, and identify best practices. The bill would require the Small Business Administrator to provide broadband training to employees so they can help small businesses. It would add broadband training to services offered by small business development centers and women’s business centers. It would provide loans and microloans to help small companies buy broadband equipment. And it would set up a “small business technology pilot program” to provide up to 1,000 excess government-owned computers each year to small business in rural areas “at no cost or a reduced cost.” The pilot program would open no later than 180 days after the law’s enactment and last three years. The Landrieu bill also would require several reports.