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The Washington Post reports that Alec Ross, who is on President Obama's Technology, Innovation and Government Reform Team, told a Washington, D.C., conference audience that the $7.2 billion allocated toward broadband in the economic stimulus package is just an initial piece of a larger forthcoming national broadband plan.
He said the administration has called on the Federal Communications Commission to create a more comprehensive broadband plan within one year. The statements don't offer much more than Obama and his other aides already have said about the broadband puzzle and its various pieces, but the reiteration comes just a day after President Obama signed the stimulus package into law, and after some observers criticized the broadband stimulus allocation as unnecessarily divided between two different federal departments--Commerce and Agriculture.
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Comments
Posted by Jarred | March 5, 2009 - 2:47am
I would love broadband where I am! I am the only neighborhood in my whole city without it, and it bothers me to no end. I am a computer networking major and I know all the math and why it's not here, but I also know there are things that can be done to change that. The only reason they don't is profit loss, because they say the area is not in high enough demand. It's not high enough demand because everyone has consigned to dial-up with no hope for the future! I love Obama's ideas to bring America to the present. Compared to most European countries, American really is terrible in the technology department...
Posted by Anonymous | February 19, 2009 - 6:39pm
I saw on CNN that the broadband bill was totally eliminated from the stimulus package. Hopefully in the future it will be back. We REALLY need this where I live it is rural and I'm trying to go to school on dial-up. UGH! Satellite is too expensive and only as good as dial-up most of the time.
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