FCC's chairman warns of national crisis in broadband2010-08-25 09:31 by DanielaTags: FCC, broadband
The United States is lagging in broadband deployment, and that will cost it in job creation and the future delivery of education and health care services, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said Tuesday at a summit on high-speed Internet communications in Minneapolis. It is a message Genachowski has been repeating since he unveiled his National Broadband Plan in March, which calls for Internet connections of 100 megabits-per-second delivered to 100 million households by 2020. That's twice as fast as the fastest broadband currently offered by Comcast or Qwest Communications International in the Twin Cities. The forum, organized by U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar's office, was friendly, but the rifts in the telecommunications community over how to speed up broadband deployment surfaced when the FCC chairman expressed support for "an enforceable framework" of regulations over Internet service providers. That met with scattered applause from the audience at Tuesday's forum at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management, which included many representatives from the telecommunications industry. Stronger FCC oversight is unpopular with telephone and cable companies that own most of the broadband networks. Read more -here-
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