The [URL=http://www.fcc.gov/]Federal Communications Commission (FCC)[/URL] has released its National Broadband Plan to Congress.
FCC Chair Julius Genachowski called the document an “action plan” for a “21st century roadmap to spur economic growth and investment, create jobs, educate our children, protect our citizens, and engage in our democracy.”
An Executive Summary of the Plan ([URL=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-296859A1.pdf]PDF[/URL]) stated that nearly 200 million Americans possessed a broadband Internet connection as of last year, up from 8 million in 2000. 100 million citizens are still without broadband at home however and perhaps more importantly, “nearly a decade after 9/11, our first responders still lack a nationwide public safety mobile broadband communications network.”
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