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FCC Sets Ambitious Goals for America’s Networked FuturePosted on Mar 15, 2010
Congress asked the FCC to develop a national broadband plan, and the agency is running with it. Among the FCC’s just announced long-term goals: for every American to have access to affordable broadband, for at least 100 million Americans to have access to 100-mbps download speeds and for the U.S. to have the broadest and fastest wireless networks in the world. Read the plan here. FCC via Engadget:
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By rico, suave, March 17, 2010 at 2:13 pm Link to this comment
GW=MC:
“Taxpayers have spent about $320 billion for fiber-based networks since the 1990s but have nothing to show for it.”
Stay unregistered.
Report thisBy GW=MCHammered, March 17, 2010 at 11:06 am Link to this comment
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“But the real kicker is this: By 2010, America should
already have been rewired. Taxpayers have spent about
$320 billion for fiber-based networks since the 1990s
but have nothing to show for it. In fact, in many
states, all schools, libraries and hospitals should
have been rewired with fiber optic service as part of
changes to state laws that gave AT&T and Verizon
billions per state to remove the old copper wiring
with new fiber optic wiring. Worse, the money is
still being collected today in the form of rate
increases, tax breaks and other perks the companies
got.”
http://blog.niemanwatchdog.org/?p=1524
Report thisBy rico, suave, March 15, 2010 at 7:03 pm Link to this comment
And meanwhile, in the enlightened utopia of Venezuela…
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