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A Plan to Extend Super-Fast Broadband Connections to All Americans
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John Windhausen, Jr.,
The Century Foundation,
1/27/2009
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Few doubt that broadband communications are increasingly
vital to our social and economic well-being. The universal availability
of affordable high-speed access to the Internet has become essential not
only for business, but also for public safety, research, education,
health care, and protecting the environment. Broadband communications are
the future, yet the U.S. government has no national broadband policy,
and does not treat broadband as a form of infrastructure and does not
regard broadband as an "essential"service. The U.S. currently lags
behind other nations both in terms of connection speeds and the number
of citizens who have access to broadband. In spite of this, the U.S. the
market for broadband services is largely deregulated, under the theory
that the marketplace will provide the optimal level of broadband in
response to customer demand. In this paper, part of the Building a
Strong America series, John Windhausen Jr. discusses how the United
States can create policy that recognizes the creation of and access to
broadband service as a vital infrastructure issue. Download the report (PDF).
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Price: Free
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