FCC Chief Sets Ambitious Goal
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski Tuesday disclosed several details about his agency's upcoming national broadband plan, including a goal of extending high-speed connectivity -- at 100 megabits per second -- to 100 million households over the next decade, CongressDaily reported.
Speaking at the annual winter meeting of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, Genachowski set a benchmark of 90 percent adoption of broadband technology by the end of 2020, up from today's rate of roughly 65 percent.
And in a nod to Google, which last week announced plans to build and test blazing fast Internet connections of one gigabit per second to serve as many as 500,000 U.S. consumers, he called for wider deployment of similar experiments. "The U.S. should lead the world in ultra-high-speed broadband test beds as fast, or faster, than anywhere in the world," Genachowski said.
The broadband plan, required by last year's economic stimulus package, originally had a Wednesday deadline for its submission to Congress, but the agency sought a one-month extension after falling behind schedule. The plan is now due March 17. To read more, click here. (Subscription required)
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