Largest ISPs Say No Thanks To Stimulus Funds > Receding has Stopped! If so, then let's spend more wisely.

Receding has Stopped! If so, then let's spend more wisely.

Actually from an economic standpoint pushing this money into small businesses will produce more stimulus than pushing it to large companies. This is because small companies often allocate manpower less efficiency (from a cost perspective) and since they tend to use more local products, which may be more expensive but this results in a larger stimulus multiplier.

So there is really no reason that we should try to cater to these large vendors instead of helping small ones build themselves up, and who knows. Some day they may end up competing with the big boys except they would be doing it as dumb pipes which is what consumers want.

Isn't that the whole reason for stimulus in the first place along with the buy American provisions...

Makes sense to me.
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Except the buy american sections of the stimulus have been largely striped out so large companies have the resources to get around it. The difference in the supply chains between small and large ISPs. A large ISP can easily purchase their products directly from a wholesaler in another country. While a smaller ISP has to go through local retailers. While this does produce higher prices it employees more people at higher wages and results in greater tax revenue through sales tax.

There's a problem with "Buy American" though: only a few brands of networking euqipment (Zhone for examle) are totally US-based. Ubiquiti has their stuff made overseas, and they're big in the wireless department...