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Cornered! Obama tipped to pump $$$ billions into broadband
Cornered! Obama tipped to pump $$$ billions into broadband | Obama tipped to pump $$$ billions into broadband |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Friday, 16 January 2009 | |
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Page 2 of 2 Piper claimed that: "Through inertia, complacency and false security, the United States was late out of the broadband starting gate, and has barely begun the game of catch up. He added that: "The issue transcends one of simple national pride - the enormous economic and social effects of broadband warrant immediate action."Featured Whitepaper
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Piper's comments, and his company's report, last October followed a call by the FTTH Council, the US Fiber-to-the-Home Council, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and other organisations for early action on House and Senate resolutions that call for national availability of 100Mbps broadband access by 2015 and for the development of a national strategy to achieve these goals through specific legislation and policies to be adopted by the end of 2009. Reports of the draft bill suggest Obama plans to get close to these goals. And the broadband industry in the US can thank its lucky stars that Obama and not McCain won the US presidential race. Obama's belief in broadband was spelt out clearly in his pre-election policy: "Obama and [running mate Joe] Biden believe we can get true broadband to every community in America through a combination of reform of the Universal Service Fund, better use of the nation's wireless spectrum, promotion of next-generation facilities, technologies and applications, and new tax and loan incentives. John McCain thought the market could manage broadband with the hands-off approach that characterised the Bush Administration. He would have abdicated responsibility to private industry and where it failed to answer the call because of market failures or other obstacles, McCain believed that "people acting through their local governments should be able to invest in their own future by building out infrastructure to provide high-speed Internet services." |
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