Broadcasters Concerned With FCC’s Broadband Plan?
The plan to expand high-speed internet service may end up costing broadcasters. This video helps explain why.
Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt Makes Statement About FCC’s Broadband Plan
Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, released the following statement about the FCC's national broadband plan on Google's Official Blog. The full statement can be read here.
Yes, the Internet was invented in the United States. Yes, we once led the world in broadband development. But now, networks in many countries, from Western Europe to East Asia, are faster and more advanced than our own. Long after we recover from this recession, this broadband gap will be a dead weight on American businesses and workers, unless we act now.
As with the space race in the 1960s, America needs a national effort by our scientists, engineers, companies, educational institutions and government agencies. Just like that great national adventure, we need near-term and long-term goals.
Broadband is an essential input to expanding business, education, and healthcare opportunities everywhere. As soon as possible, we need to bring Internet access to every community, from rural America to the inner cities.
I support a national broadband strategy because ubiquitous broadband connectivity can catapult America into the next level of economic competitiveness, worker productivity, and educational opportunity. But as in the past, we will make this breakthrough by choice, not chance.
FCC To Target Rural Areas With Broadband Upgrade
The Federal Communications Commission yesterday began mapping out a plan to bring high-speed Internet service to the entire nation. The goal is to increase its availability, improve its quality, and to make it more affordable.
The FCC would look at coming up with standards for speed and guidelines. The FCC would also focus on why more than three times as many people in urban areas are not connecting to high-speed Internet service compared with those in rural areas.
The government included $7.2 billion in the stimulus package for broadband, mostly for rural areas.
Chis Murray, a public advocate, stated "The proper goal of the program is filling holes in our national broadband strategy, not creating broadband networks from the ground up."
